Street Movies! @ High School Park

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Street Movies! presented by PNC Arts Alive
August 3, 2011 - August 27, 2011

Join Scribe, Friends of High School Park , and La Mott Community Garden Group for Street Movies! featuring short films about the environment, saving a community garden, farming, food justice and gardening.

Thursday, August 4 - 7:45PM
High School Park - High School Road & Montgomery Avenue
FREE & Open to the public
Opening performance by acoustic funk group Hootgrass

SEPTA DIRECTIONS: High School Park is accessible by Septa Regional Rail trains. Take the Warminster Line, West Trenton or Lansdale/Doylestown lines to the ELKINS PARK station. View Septa's Glenside combined trained schedule HERE for schedule details or call SEPTA information at 215-580-7800.

High School Park
by Friends of High School Park and Scribe Video Center
After a fire destroyed a former high school in Cheltenham, neighbors came together to restore the site’s native ecosystem. (2011, 8:30 min)

La Mott Community Garden: A Very Precious Place
by La Mott Community Garden Group and Scribe Video Center
La Mott’s colorful history is remembered in a fight to save its 80-year-old community garden from developers. (2011, 12:30 min)

Terminator Tomatoes
by Suzanne Twining
A farmer and his daughter get in too deep with a crop of genetically modified tomatoes.
(2001, Claymation, 5:00 min)

Food Justice, A Growing Movement
by Martina Brimmer and Zora Tucker
Farmers become activists in the fight for food justice in West Oakland California.(2006, 8:00 min)

Inch by Inch: Providence Youth Gardens for Education
by Ilana Friedman
Teachers and students in Providence, Rhode Island get their hands dirty and their lives enriched. (2007, 8:18 min)

Chief Gary Harrison
by Green Guerrillas Youth Media Collective
Chief Gary Harrison, the traditional leader of the Athabascan Nation in Chickaloon, Alaska speaks on community self-sufficiency, challenging coal mining, consumption and climate change, and the importance of renewable energy. (2007, 5:37 min)

Child & Firefly
by Glenn Gear
This short animation is based on the Urdu poem “Jugnu” for children written by Indian author Ismail Meeruti and first published in the 19th century. It illustrates an encounter between a curious boy and a firefly. The boy catches the firefly in his hat and keeps it prisoner until convinced by her that he must set her free. This message serves to remind us to be more considerate and not destructive of other species, each other and nature. (2009, 2:30 minutes)

Nutrition: A Community's Challenge
by Brandywine Workshop Youth Video Project and Shannon Newby
Nutritional foods and fresh fruits and vegetables are critical to our well-being. Unfortunately, not everyone has access to healthy food. This documentary, created by students from West Philadelphia High School in collaboration with filmmaker Shannon Newby, explores the various roles that youth, parents, educators, community leaders, elected officials and others must play in ensuring that proper nutrition, healthy foods and exercise are being promoted as a life-long commitment. "Nutrition: A Community's Challenge" was sponsored by the Brandywine Workshop, an EcoExpress Community Partner. (16:06 minutes)

Asparagus! (A Stalk-umentary)
by Kirsten Kelly and Anne de Mare
Asparagus was King in Oceana County. Then came the U.S. War on Drugs. In 1991, when cocaine imports were at an all time high, The U.S. signed the Andean Trade Preference Act, eliminating all import tariffs on South American asparagus. The idea was that South American farmers would stop growing cocaine and start growing asparagus. Ten years later, the U.S. continues to send huge subsidies to Peru for their alternative crop program, but it was asparagus that exploded there, even though it grows in entirely different regions than cocaine! The Free Trade band wagon was moving fast, with NAFTA bringing an additional flood of Mexican asparagus. Now, China has started exporting their asparagus to the U.S! (2006, 05:57 min)