City Harvest: A Growing Community
by Debbie Rudman
Documentary PREMIERE with filmmaker Q&A
Illustrates the remarkable sustainability and expansion of Pennsylvania Horticultural Society’s City Harvest program throughout Philadelphia, growth that is an inspiring testament to the power of city-wide collaborations addressing issues such as food insecurity, environmental damage, re-entry from prison, teen education, jobs training, and belonging, through partnerships with working solutions. (30 min)
ONLINE
Sunday August 30th at 4:00pm
Hosted by Termite TV Collective
Here is the link to the youtube event:https://youtu.be/v9P2c7bWqr4
IN PERSON
Sunday September 20th at 7:30PM
At The Open Kitchen Sculpture Garden, 2241 N Philip St, Philadelphia, PA 19133
Also screening outdoors will be the origin story of the City Harvest program in 2006, documenting the beginning of these partnerships in gardening addressing institutional rehabilitation, community integration and improved nutrition. Through cycles of change and growth, prison inmates taking part in the “roots to re-entry” greenhouse program, network with neighborhood gardens to grow produce to be distributed to local food cupboards across Philadelphia. (39 min)
Both documentaries are an uplifting look at a radical social program changing people’s lives for the better for over a decade (and turned the filmmaker into an urban farmer)