Fair Food Focus In Canberra​

WHEN: Monday 9 May

WHAT and WHERE:

5.00 – 6.30pm

Polyfaces screening at The Palace Cinema, NewActon Nishi, 2 Phillip Law Street (Corner Edinburgh Ave and Parkes Way), Canberra. "If you have even simply wondered about where your food comes, its provenance, your own sustenance, you must see Polyfaces. It’s filled with logic, sweet sweet logic" (Hilary McNevin)

6.30 – 7.30pm  

Overview of Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance's regulation campaign – the issues; infrastructure pressure points like abattoirs, and; the Legal Defence Fund

ACT Region Peoples Food Plan Working Paper #1 presentation (Conservation Council ACT Region)

Panel discussion moderated by Tammi Jonas, President of Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance.

7.45 – 9.30pm (Optional)

Two course Fair Food Dinner at A. Baker, 15 Edinburgh Ave Canberra ACT

COST:

Polyfaces screening, presentations and discussion $25 per head

Two-course dinner at A. Baker $45 per head (both events $70)  DINNER TICKETS SOLD OUT

Proceeds from the evening will go to the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance Legal Defence Fund.

BOOKINGS: Bookings are essential – for both the Polyfaces Screening and the dinner

Supported and sponsored by:

Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance; Eat Local Thursday; Southern Harvest Farmers Market; Caroola Farm; Conservation Council ACT Region; Urban Agriculture Canberra; Regrarians; Slow Food Canberra

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