Tag: Philadelphia
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Understories: Undergrowth
https://vimeo.com/1109488262https://vimeo.com/1109490719 Termite TV presents Understories: Undergrowth Coordinating producers gabe castro & Debbie Rudman Oyster Spells by Ingrid Raphaël – A Meditation on Oysters The Food of the Yard by Michael O’Reilly – Explores the understory of the maker, his family, and their backyard. Tunnel Under World by Anula Shetty A subway journey exploring underground abandoned tunnels Lava…
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City Harvest: A Growing Community Work-in-Progress Screening at PHS
A day in the life of a gardener is all but predictable or mundane. There is something new and exciting every single day, although there are some common threads of routine to connect one dusk to the next dawn. Plant, water, prune, weed, harvest. There’s a peace in that routine, but adventure in everything else.…
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City Harvest: the Next Decade
In 2005, filmmaker Deb Rudman began a process to document Pennsylvania Horticultural Society’s (PHS) City Harvest program. Through this program, inmates of the Philadelphia Prison System grow seedlings at a prison greenhouse, and thousands more seedlings are started at neighborhood-based greenhouses run by nonprofit partners. The inmates receive training in gardening and basic landscaping along…