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This workshop creates a space to share stories about a range of ways that we are impacted by, and organize to counter, inequitable food systems, while emphasizing the place-based specificities of our work. We come together with the shared understanding that food can be a tool for deepening conversations about environmental, economic, and social harms, including the multiple forms of extraction and dispossession that frontline communities face. However, food can also be an entry point for culturally specific forms of resistance and regeneration.
In this spirit, the aim of the workshop is to emphasize the critical role storytelling can play in the process of elevating diverse responses to these conditions, while facilitating space for skills-sharing, networking, and creative practice. The workshop will feature remarks by local community groups and academics, as well as break-out sessions on skills-based and imaginative storytelling strategies. We invite all participants interested in the following themes as they intersect with food systems: settler colonialism, agroecology and food sovereignty, social and environmental justice, labor and farmworkers rights, development and gentrification, resource extraction and conflicts, activism and policy making.
This is a free event, but sliding scale donations are encouraged if you are able (we suggest between $0-$50 range). Donations will cover event costs, such as space and light breakfast and lunch from local businesses, and any surplus will be donated to local community partners and organizations. Please donate through this event page using PayPal (preferred) or you can donate at the workshop. We are grateful for any contribution that you provide. (Please note that we cannot accept other methods of collecting donations, i.e. credit cards, despite this website's advertising.)
This workshop is sponsored by:
Denver Urban Gardens (https://dug.org/);
The Geographies of Food and Agriculture Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers (https://gfasg.wordpress.com/); and
The Center for Environmental Justice at Colorado State University (http://environmentaljustice.colostate.edu/)
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