Film & Speaker
April 27 @ 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm
| $8Special Film & Speaker
Saturday, April 27, 2 pm | Tickets: $8
The Film: Gather is an intimate portrait of the growing movement amongst Native Americans to reclaim their spiritual, political, and cultural identities through food sovereignty while battling the trauma of centuries of genocide.
Gather follows Nephi Craig, a chef from the White Mountain Apache Nation (Arizona), opening an indigenous café as a nutritional recovery clinic; Elsie Dubray, a young scientist from the Cheyenne River Sioux Nation (South Dakota), conducting landmark studies on bison; and the Ancestral Guard, a group of environmental activists from the Yurok Nation (Northern California), trying to save the Klamath river.
Trailer and all film showtimes.
Speaker: Jessica Leading Fox, Pawnee Seed Preservation Society (PSPS)
Jessica will explain the work of the PSPS and relate it to the film, Gather. She will also explain the work the PSPS does in the realm of Food Sovereignty for the Pawnee Nation and take questions from the audience. Jessica is a past intern at the society and has worked directly in the Homeland Gardens. She is presently on a five-year program with the PSPS representing the Pawnee Skidi Band for Collaborative Research and the work they do with agroecological renewable energy systems.
Exhibit: When you’re here for the film, don’t miss the Museum’s newest temporary exhibit, Chew on This. The exhibit is a buffet of local food history. It offers the familiar and the unique and includes artifacts and informational panels about food preparation and consumption in this area through time – including information from the Pawnee Seed Preservation Society.
The film will also be shown on Sunday, May 5, at 2pm.