Award Winning Environmental Documentary Screening
| Hours: | Film screening starts at 7:30pm on Earth Day |
| Ages: | Adults |
| In/Outdoor: | Indoor |
| Cost: | $ see below |
| Category: | Lectures/Discussions |
Produced and directed by Dutch filmmakers Mascha and Manfred Poppenk, Grown in Detroit tells the story of the heroic efforts underway at the Catherine Ferguson School to redeem the city’s young and its land. Detroit, once one of the wealthiest cities in the country, is now one of the poorest and most dangerous with high unemployment and crime rates.
One third of the land is vacant. But students at The Catherine Ferguson School are working to change those statistics as proud urban gardeners learning to cultivate the land and feed their families.
The first screening of the film at Andover Newton Theological School will include conversations with special guest, Catherine Ferguson’s Principal, Asenath Andrews, and the film directors. The second screening of the film at MIT will also feature a panel of notable Boston area food justice advocates and urban agriculture practitioners. More information about this second screening can be found at www.go.tufts.edu/foodplanning.
For ticket sales: To attend the pre-screening reception, presentation and discussion of the film on Earth Day, purchase tickets online at www.lizwalkerjourneyproductions.org. Prices vary and seating is limited, so please buy your tickets early.
More about the film: The Urban Garden Program at the Catherine Ferguson School is one of many representing people who are fighting to save a city that the rest of the country has written off. The school, founded by its principal, Asenath Andrews, has an enrollment of 300 mainly African American pregnant and parenting teens. Their attendance is a miracle in itself. More than 3,000 pregnant girls in Detroit drop out of school every year. As part of the Catherine Ferguson School’s curriculum, pregnant teens are taught agricultural skills at the farm created right next to the school. Through farming, the young mothers are becoming more independent and knowledgeable about the importance of nutritious foods. Many of the teens initially do not like the farm work, but their dislike disappears when they see their fruits of their labor in the crops and the money they produce. For more information about the film please visit www.grownindetroit.tv.
About Liz Walker Journey Productions: Liz Walker Journey Productions is an independent non-profit communications company that seeks to increase public awareness of human rights issues around the world while creating opportunities for community building and providing platforms for young artists. For more information about Liz Walker Journey Productions please log onto: www.lizwalkerjourneyproductions.org.
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To attend the pre-screening reception, presentation and discussion of the film on Earth Day, purchase tickets online. Prices vary and seating is limited, so please buy your tickets early at http://www.lizwalkerjourneyproductions.org.
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www.lizwalkerjourneyproductions.org/
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210 Herrick Road, Newton, MA, 02459 map
Phone: 339-234-2587
Directions to Andover Newton Theological School, Wilson Chapel, 210 Herrick Road in Newton: From I-95 (Route 128), take exit 20A (Route 9) east toward Boston. Proceed 2.1 miles on Route 9 to the Newton Centre/West Roxbury right hand exit. Turn left (north) onto Parker Street at the end of the exit ramp and proceed for .6 mile. Turn right onto Braeland Avenue. Then take the first right onto Herrick Road and follow the signs up the hill to the campus. For further directions to Andover Newton Theological School please go to http://www.ants.edu/ants-difference/map.
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