MMMM! Monday 2 Feb, Movie (Seeds Double Bill), Meal & Mingling
Hi all,
MMMM! Monday Movie, Meal & Mingling is back on Monday 2 Feb!
https://ud.coop/seeddouble
This week it's Bridport Seed Week and so we're screening a double bill of short films about seeds: Seeds of Freedom & Seeds of Sovereignty
A reminder to check out our MMMM! Next film? site where you can suggest and upvote films you think we should screen. It's easy to login, you just enter your email and then click the link it sends you.
You can also Join West Dorset Commons to get into MMMM! for free and to support our ongoing work to make West Dorset a home to thriving people, in a thriving place, whilst respecting the wellbeing of all people, and the health of the whole planet.
But back to MMMM! on Monday 2 February:
We'll have a delicious (mostly organic) vegan curry from 6ish:
Saag Aloo
Punjabi cauliflower
Masoor dal
Rice and salads
Pre-book (or at least let us know you'd like food) by 3pm Monday to avoid disappointment! 🎟️ 🍲😋
Shorts from around 6:30pm ish
And the main feature from 7pm:
Seeds of Freedom (30 mins) 2012
Seeds of Freedom charts the story of seed from its roots at the heart of traditional, diversity rich farming systems across the world, to being transformed into a powerful commodity, used to monopolise the global food system.
The film highlights the extent to which the industrial agricultural system, and genetically modified (GM) seeds in particular, has impacted on the enormous agro-biodiversity evolved by farmers and communities around the world, since the beginning of agriculture.
Seeds of Freedom seeks to challenge the mantra that large-scale, industrial agriculture is the only means by which we can feed the world, promoted by the pro-GM lobby. In tracking the story of seed it becomes clear how corporate agenda has driven the take over of seed in order to make vast profit and control of the food global system.
Produced by The Gaia Foundation and the African Biodiversity Network, in collaboration with MELCA Ethiopia, Navdanya International and GRAIN.
Seeds of Sovereignty (37 mins) 2013
As the world’s agriculture and food systems face a crisis of disappearing seed diversity, a new short film tells the story of how African farming communities and organisations are reviving traditional seed diversity across the continent, and resisting mounting corporate pressure to use industrialised seed and farming methods.
Seeds of Sovereignty shows that farmers around the world have saved and bred an unimaginable wealth of seed diversity to meet their many different challenges, but as corporate seed and chemicals replace farmers’ own ingenuity, this diversity is steadily disappearing. Reviving farmers’ in-depth knowledge of how to save and adapt seed is critical, and the film is aimed to encourage others to do so by setting out the key stages in this process.
Through interviews and stunning cinematography from across the continent, the 35-minute film unpacks an approach aligned to the principles of the growing global food sovereignty movement and provides a guide for anyone looking to revive traditional, diversity rich, seed and farming systems around the world.
Seeds of Sovereignty is the follow-up to the 2012 film Seeds of Freedom, narrated by British actor Jeremy Irons. Seeds of Freedom challenged the global corporate agenda to control and monopolise the food and farming sector, most particularly through genetically modified seed. It has achieved global success and is used by anti-GM campaigners across the globe.
Films produced by The Gaia Foundation, the African Biodiversity Network, MELCA Ethiopia and GRAIN
We'll also have:
Delicious (mostly) organic vegan curries from Fergus Bradbeer aka Vegie Vortex (who also used to do the curries at Beach and Barnicott), plus hot and cold drinks.
Please note:
Our room hire costs £42/ week so if you're able to able to contribute more than the default ticket amount then please do so.
We also need to ensure enough people come along to make it worthwhile for Fergus to keep coming along to cook up the delicious food - so invite a friend!
Many thanks in advance. Together We Have Everything.
Get your tickets and pre-book your food now 🎟️ 🍲😋 https://ud.coop/seeddouble
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