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SUMMARY:Film Screening:The Ann Arbor Premiere of 17 BLOCKS
DESCRIPTION:A Premiere Screening and Conversation\nIn 1999\, filmmaker Davy Rothbart gave nine-year-old Emmanual Sanford-Durant a camera. The boy and his family began filming their daily lives in America’s most dangerous neighborhood — just 17 blocks behind the U.S. Capitol. Together\, Davy and the Sanfords kept filming and collaborating for 20 years. This critically acclaimed documentary illuminates a nation’s ongoing crisis through one family’s raw\, stirring and deeply personal saga.\n\nAbout the filmmaker\nA native of Ann Arbor\, Davy Rothbart is a 2024-25 Knight-Wallace Fellow\, Emmy Award-winning filmmaker\, bestselling author\, journalist\, creator of Found Magazine and frequent contributor to public radio’s “This American Life.”\n\nHis previous documentary “Medora\,” about a resilient high-school basketball team in a dwindling Indiana town\, based on The New York Times story by Pulitzer Prize winner John Branch\, was executive produced by Steve Buscemi and Stanley Tucci\, and premiered at the 2013 SXSW Film Festival.\n\nRothbart’s work has appeared in The New York Times\, New York Magazine\, The California Sunday Magazine\, GQ and Grantland\, while his stories on “This American Life” have amassed more than 30 million listeners. Rothbart is the author of the bestselling essay collection “My Heart Is an Idiot\,” and he contributed writing to the Oscar-winning short “The Neighbor’s Window.” He is also the founder of Washington To Washington\, an annual hiking adventure for kids from underserved communities.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132627
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CATEGORIES:Journalism,Film
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SUMMARY:Livestream / Virtual:Food Literacy for All
DESCRIPTION:Since 2017\, the University of Michigan Sustainable Food Systems Initiative (SFSI) has hosted a unique community-academic partnership course titled Food Literacy for All each winter semester. Structured as a virtual lecture series\, Food Literacy for All features different guest speakers each Tuesday evening (6:30-8pm EST) to address diverse challenges and opportunities of both domestic and global food systems. The course aims to ignite new conversations and deepen existing commitments to building more equitable\, health-promoting\, and ecologically sustainable food systems. Students can enroll in the course for credit\, and community members can join the sessions for free. \n\nThe sessions are co-led by Dr. Bénédicte Boisseron (University of Michigan College of Literature\, Science\, and the Arts\, Afroamerican & African Studies) and Shiloh Maples (Community organizer and seed keeper). \n\nLearn more about the speakers and register for the Zoom Webinar sessions at this link: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/sustainablefoodsystems/foodliteracyforall/
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/129382
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Politics,sustainable food systems,Sustainability,Social Justice,Food Literacy For All,Advocacy,agriculture,Agroecology,Diversity,Environment,food sustainability,Food Systems,Human Rights,Interdisciplinary
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