2013 Food Justice Summit
The Food Justice Summit is a one-day event created to bring our community together and foster unity and equality in our food system.
The event kicks off in the morning of September 21st with a farm-a-thon fundraiser for Greenstar Community Projects (GSCP).
The afternoon street fair includes a keynote address by renowned social and environmental activist Majora Carter, a Jr. Iron Chef demonstration, healthy affordable food, educational tabling and fabulous local music including Ki-Tun, Mbusi, and The Blind Spots!
The Food Justice Summit street fair is an opportunity for people of all ages and cultures to connect with each other, learn from each other, eat together, dance together, and declare united support for efforts in our community to build a just, sustainable, healthy, and equitable food system.
Check out this years street fair schedule!
- 12:00pm Street Fair begins with food vendors, educational tabling, kids activities, and general happy meandering
- 12:15pm – 1:30pm – Ki-Tun brings launches the days entertainment with harmonious world beats. The set will be interspersed with important messages and announcements from local champions of food justice.
- 1:30pm – 2:15pm – speaker introduction and keynote address from social and environmental activist Majora Carter
- 2:15pm – 2:30pm – introductory announcements for the Jr. Iron Chef demonstration
- 2:30pm – 3:45pm – Mbusi and friends bring in the rhythm and hip-hop grooves. The set with be interspersed with important messages and announcements from local champions of food justice
- 3:45pm – 4:00pm – Jr Iron Chef team presentations, closing announcements, and serving of food samples!!!
- 4:00pm – til the dancin ends! – The Blind Spots take to the stage to rock down the house!!
Save the date of Saturday September 21st from 12pm to 5pm (and beyond for those still groovin’ on the dance floor!) and join in this celebration!
Support this year’s annual Food Justice Summit by being or supporting a farm worker and joining in the afternoon festivities on Saturday, September 21st, 2013!
WHAT IS FOOD JUSTICE?
Food Justice is a transformation in our food system leading to comprehensive local food distribution, care for the whole community, stewardship for the environment, and above all else, elimination of disparities and inequities in healthy food access and nutrition education.
WHAT IS A HEALTHY FOOD SYSTEM?
A health food system strives to provide foods that are fresh, nutritious, affordable, culturally-appropriate, and grown locally with care for the well-being of the land, workers, and animals. People practicing Food Justice leads to a healthy local food system, self-reliant communities, and a healthy environment.
We have a lot of wonderful things going on in our amazing local food system and the goal of this food justice summit is to bring these efforts together to nurture a sustainable, equitable, and effective local food system.
GREENSTAR COMMUNITY PROJECTS (GSCP) FOOD JUSTICE EFFORTS
The focus of this event is to bring the community together to create a sustainable, equitable, and effective local food system. Funds from the event are used throughout the year to bring together the many passionate individuals, groups and organizations working for food justice into a united mission and action plan. GSCP also works directly with individuals and groups to foster access to healthy foods and nutrition education.
