WHAT CAN YOU DO?
Food Drive: April 4-19, across campus
Donate healthy, non-perishable food or funds to our local Community Food Share at bins across campus. To host a bin in your office, contact volunteer@colorado.edu.
Event entrance for all of the events listed below is
FREE with a suggested donation of
1 non-perishable food item.
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MONDAY, April 11th
THE GARDEN This award-winning film raises crucial questions about liberty, equality and justice, exposing how the country's largest community garden’s existence is jeopardized by backroom politics.
Hosted by CU Going Local
*Entrance fee: suggested donation of one canned food*
6:00pm-7:00pm in EDU 220
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TUESDAY, April 12th
TAKING ROOT: award-winning film about Kenyan Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai & panel on women and environmental justice.
Panelists: Na:'zic (Grandmother's Earth Kitchen), Neambe LeadonVita (GrowHaus), Beth Osnes (CU Theater), Jeanine Canty (Naropa). Hosted by E-Center.
*Entrance fee: suggested donation of one canned food*
6:00pm-8:00pm in HUMN 1B50
KING CORN: documentary screening focusing on the impact of corn subsidies. Hosted by CU CoPirg.
*Entrance fee: suggested donation of canned food*
7:00pm-8:00pm in ENVD 120
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WEDNESDAY, April 13th
Food Justice Fair & Buffalo Can Challenge
Interactive & informational booths of programs and initiatives working for food justice. Can structure design competition. Live music and a performance by CU's Interactive Theater Project.
Hosted by Volunteer Resource Center, IECE & CU Transportation
*Please consider contributing a food donation to this event.
11:00am-2:00pm at the UMC Fountain
Food for Thought Dinner - CU Dining Services
Come enjoy organic and local food while
learning more about where your food comes from and how it makes it to your
table! Available at all campus dining centers during the evening
meal.
Panel Discussion with Local Farmers
Hosted by CU Copirg.
*Entrance fee: suggested donation of canned food*
7:00pm-8:00pm in HUMN 135
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THURSDAY, April 14th
Food Justice Panel
28 million Americans are struggling to secure their next meal - what can you do to help?
Michael Brownlee (Transitions Colorado), Karen Coates (Tedd Scriopps Fellow),Katherine Moos (Colorado Campaign to End Childhood Hunger & Hunger Free Colorado), Coby Gould (The GrowHaus).
Hosted by IECE & WRTG 1150
*Entrance fee: suggested donation of canned food*
1:30-3:00pm in UMC 384
DIVE!: Living Off America's Waste
Award-winning film and Q&A with filmmaker Jeremy Siefert, Elizabeth Kucinich (humanitarian & activist), and Kelly Shea (WhiteWave Foods)
*Entrance fee: suggested donation of canned food*
7:00pm-9:00pm in VAC 1B20
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FRIDAY, April 15th
BURNING IN THE SUN: Film about one man's efforts to bring solar power to Mali and panel focusing on the global effects of injustice. Panelists: Lakshman Guruswamy (Center for Energy and Environmental Security), Erin Smith (Global Diversity Foundation), Michael Glantz (CU Consortium for Capacity Building)
*Entrance fee: suggested donation of canned food*
5:00pm-7:00pm in HUMN 1B80
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SATURDAY & SUNDAY, April 16 & 17
Better Boulder Better World
April 16 & 17
Join other CU students, faculty and staff for a day of service. Choose among several diverse projects: till a community garden, plan urban community art projects using recycled materials, work on a Denver Rescue Mission farm for homeless in recovery.
*Participation fee: suggested donation of canned food*
Space is lmited - register today!
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WHAT NEXT?
Ready to make a longer lasting impact for food and environmental justice? To learn about ongoing volunteer opportunities in these areas visit the fair on April 13th or contact volunteer@colorado.edu or earthhelp@colorado.edu.
