How do you change someones mind about the most important thing in the world?
The Great Full Community is a leadership network for women in food systems and sustainability.
We are excited to host an upcoming screening of Raj Patel’s brilliant new film “The Ants and The Grasshopper”. It explores many of the themes we are passionate about - sustainable food systems and the interconnection with climate, gender and economic inequality. And most importantly asks the question - how do we actually create sustainable change?
The documentary powerfully profiles the work and impact of the Malawian non-profit organisation Soil, Food and Healthy Communities (SFHC). We are hosting this screening on a donation basis and ALL proceeds raised will be donated to support the important work of SFHC in Malawi.
The film screening will be followed by a discussion with Esther Lupafya, the Director of SFHC and Dr. Rachel Bezner Kerr, Professor of Global Development at Cornell University, long term collaborator and research partner of SFHC.
About the Screening:
The screening will take place virtually. You are most welcome to organize a screening party with your colleagues or friends!
Date and Time: 11 November 2021, 18.15 - 20.45h
Program:
18.15 Welcome and Introduction, Michelle Grant (The Great Full)
18.20 Film Screening
19.35 Break
19.50 Discussion with Esther Lupafya (SFHC Malawi) and Rachel Bezner Kerr (Cornell University)
20.45 Close
Registration: Please sign up below to join the event. All details for how to connect to the virtual screening will be shared in the confirmation of registration email. All proceeds from the 25 CHF ticket price will be donated to SFHC in Malawi.
About the Film:
Anita Chitaya has a gift: she can help bring abundant food from dead soil, she can make men fight for gender equality, and maybe she can end child hunger in her village. Now, to save her home in Malawi from extreme weather, she faces her greatest challenge: persuading Americans that climate change is real. Traveling from Malawi to California to the White House, she meets climate sceptics and despairing farmers. Her journey takes her across all the divisions that shape the USA: from the rural-urban divide, to schisms of race, class and gender, and to the American exceptionalism that remains a part of the culture. It will take all her skill and experience to help Americans recognise, and free themselves from, a logic that is already destroying the Earth.