Fairfield Families

Pequot Library Hosts the First Screening of FRESH

July 30, 2009 at 3:16 am fairfieldfamilies 1 comment

Pequot Library and the Fairfield Green Food Guide, LLC are proud to present the first community screening in Connecticut of the newly released documentary food film FRESH on Wednesday, August 12 at 7 pm in the Library’s auditorium.  FRESH, a widely-acclaimed production of documentary filmmaker Ana Sofia Joanes offers “new thinking about what we’re eating” at a time when the potentially lethal consequences of our industrialized food system have become standard items in our daily news diet.

Immediately following the film, guests will be treated to an educational panel discussion by the leaders of our own local-sustainable food movement including Bill Duesing, Executive Director of CT NOFA (Northeast Organic Farming Association of Connecticut); Sue Cadwell, Chef/Owner of Health in a Hurry; environmentalist Janak Desai and Ken Kleban of Kleban Properties, co-founders of Fairfield’s Farmer’s Market at the Brick Walk; Deb Marsden, Founder of Connecticut Farm Fresh Express; Analiese Paik, Founder of the Fairfield Green Food Guide, LLC; and Annelise McCay and Amie Hall, founders of three of Fairfield’s organic, edible schoolyard gardens. Following the panel, a wide variety of exhibitors in the Library’s community reading room will offer practical advice about how individuals can contribute to and benefit from the local-sustainable food movement.

Seating is limited to 100 guests and tickets must be pre-purchased online for five dollars plus a small processing fee at brownpapertickets.com. All event profits will be donated to the Pequot Library and a local-sustainable food initiative. 

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