Earth Day Film: “Can You Dig This”
Date: Friday, April 22, 2016 Earth Day
Location: The Boardroom (2nd floor) at Lenoir Rhyne, Asheville Campus, 36 Montford Avenue, Asheville, NC 28801
Time: 5:30 doors open. 6:00 films starts. Community Discussion to follow.
Cost: By donation at the door. No advance sales. First come first serve.
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1650874481840367/
Website & Trailer: http://organicgrowersschool.org/2016-earth-day-film/
Vimeo Trailer: https://vimeo.com/129924807
Description:
Organic Growers School, Green Opportunities, Bountiful Cities, and Asheville GreenWorks (partners in Asheville’s Urban Agriculture Alliance) are proud to present our 3rd Annual Earth Day Film.
“Can You Dig This” (2015), an 80 min. film that explores the urban gardening revolution currently taking place in South Central Los Angeles, one of the largest food deserts in the country. Followed by a community discussion.
South Los Angeles. What comes to mind is gangs, drugs, liquor stores, abandoned buildings and vacant lots. The last thing that you would expect to find is a beautiful garden sprouting up through the concrete, coloring the urban landscape. As part of an urban gardening movement taking root in South LA, people are planting to transform their neighborhoods and are changing their own lives in the process. Calling for people to put down their guns and pick up their shovels, these “gangster gardeners” are creating an oasis in the middle of one of the most notoriously dangerous places in America.
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