15th Annual Stone Soup Festival‘connecting our local food community’

May 8, 2010 - Britannia Community Centre
1661 Napier Street @ Commercial Drive

Britannia Community Centre hosts the 15th annual Stone Soup Festival, a celebration of food, art, environment and community,  including food vendors, local artists, community groups, talks and workshops, live music, theatre, Latin American Mothers Day Celebration, childrens activities, free soup and more! Britannia Community Centre Site, 1661 Napier St at Commercial Drive. For more information call: 604.718.5800 or www.britanniacentre.org

Press release

Britannia Community Centre is pleased to announce another great Stone Soup Festival bringing community together in celebration of food, the environment and community itself. More than ever, people are aware of the issues of food security, the benefits of sharing resources, and eating ‘local’. Stone Soup will celebrate our local diversity of food, the environment and its importance to the ‘culture’ of our community.

In the spirit of celebrating our local food community, we are working to build a more inclusive and diverse festival with even more food security information tables, food vendors, artists, musicians, and presentations. This year, we are especially pleased to include the Stone Soup Film Festival, screening a wide range of food films all day. As well we will be partnering once again with the Multicultural Family Centre in bringing the Fiesta de las Madres (Mother’s Day Festival) to Stone Soup in celebration of the food and cultural traditions of Latin America.

Additional features at this year’s Stone Soup include:

• Stone Soup Film Festival: Exploring the Politics of Food. A feast of films exploring urban agriculture, food and health, aboriginal fisheries, globalization, food justice
  http://stonesoupfilmfestival.blogspot.com/  
• Food Justice in the Downtown Eastside. Joyce Rock from the Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood House will share with us how the DTES is taking control of their food needs.
• 2 Block Diet. Kate Sutherland and neighbours are helping each other grow more food and growing community at the same time
• Backyard Bounty. Learn from the experts how to set up your own backyard farm including beekeeping, chickens, aquaponics and mushroom horticulture
• Shiv Mandir. Vegetarian Lunch offered all afternoon as well as enjoy a cultural performance
  Performance at the Shiv Mandir Temple, (Napier St. @ Salisbury)  
• Fiesta de las Madres. In honor of our mothers, the Latin American Mother’s Day Festival.
  Features, dancing, music, food and crafts
• Seedballing Workshop. Muddy fun for the kids. Come and make your own seedballs
  and help green up the neighbourhood
• Urban Crop Crew: A Food Security Adventure. A puppet show written by Dalia Levy and performed by Young Eco-Thespians (YET) Join the veggie puppets as they rise up against evil Meansanto. 

Saturday, May 8th, 2010
12pm – 5pm
Britannia Community Centre,
1661 Napier St @ Napier & Commercial Dr For more information contact Katherine Polgrain
Email: courage@vcn.bc.ca