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Jessica Mackinnon
jmack@dom.edu
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Siena Center Explores Food, Social Justice and Faith

Dominican University’s Siena Center will celebrate the fall harvest with two events exploring food politics, sustainable agriculture and social change. A lecture titled “Ethical Eating for Everyday People” will be held on Wednesday, October 24 at 7:30 p.m. and a full-day Festival of Food and Faith will follow on Saturday, October 27 from 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Both programs will be held in Parmer Hall, 7900 W. Division Street, River Forest.

In their lecture on ethical eating, renowned authors and sustainability activists Anna Lappé and Bryant Terry will share with the audience ways that individuals and families can prepare and consume food in a more just, sustainable manner.

Lappé is the co-founder of the Cambridge (MA) based Small Planet Institute, a collaborative network for research and popular education in food issues. In 2002, the Institute launched the Small Planet Fund to support the work of movements around the world dedicated to ensuring healthy eating and environmental responsibility. The Fund has supported the work of Dr. Muhammed Yunus, the Bangladeshi banker who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for his efforts to extend microcredit loans to impoverished entrepreneurs, and Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for her contributions to sustainable development, democracy and peace.

Lappé was named as one of 14 forward thinkers in Time Magazine’s EcoGuide and is the co-author, with her mother Frances Moore Lappé, of Hope’s Edge: The New Diet for a Small Planet, a book chronicling social movements around the world addressing the root causes of hunger and poverty; and, with Bryant Terry, Grub: Ideas for an Organic Kitchen.

Bryant Terry founded b-healthy! (Build Healthy Eating and Lifestyles to Help Youth), a New York-based nonprofit organization made up of chefs and social activists working to strengthen the food justice movement in the United States. A whole foods chef, Terry graduated from the Chef’s Training Program at the Natural Gourmet Cookery School in New York City and holds a master’s degree in history from New York University and a bachelor’s degree with honors in English from Xavier University (LA).

The lecture on “Ethical Eating for Everyday People” will be held on October 24 at 7:30 p.m. in Bluhm Lecture Hall in Parmer Hall. The fee is $10.

The Festival of Food and Faith on October 27, sponsored in collaboration with Advocate Health Care and the Valparaiso Project on the Education and Formation of People in Faith, will explore ways in which Christian faith can inform daily food practices, and celebrate good food produced in just and sustainable ways.

Workshops will be presented on such topics as “The World on Our Table: Confronting Hidden Injustices in our Food Choices” by Karla Kauffman, coordinator of a local food sustainability group in Three Rivers (MI), and Nancy Jones, director of Chicago Fair Trade; and “Growing Power: Urban Partnerships in Faith and Farming” by Clare Butterfield, director of Faith in Place, an environmental ministry supporting energy conservation, sustainable agriculture and fair trade products, and Erika Allen, co-chair of the Chicago Food Policy Council and a recipient of the Chicago Tribune’s Good Eating Award in 2006.

Other workshops will include “Welcoming the Hungry and Homeless to the Table” by Oreon Trickery, an ordained minister with La Salle Street Church and director of Breaking Bread, an outreach ministry for homeless individuals in Chicago; and “Resources for Ethical Eating” by Kristen Peachey, director of congregational health partnerships for Advocate Health Care, and Don Richter, associate director of the Valparaiso Project.

The festival, which will be held in the atrium of Parmer Hall, will include an “Earth friendly” breakfast and lunch. The fee for the festival is $20 for adults and $5 for students and children. A discounted price will be available for individuals attending both events.

For more information on the lecture on ethical eating on October 24 and the Festival of Food and Faith on October 27, please contact the Siena Center at (708) 714-9105 or visit the web site at www.siena.dom.edu.Dominican University’s