Brooklyn Farmers Ball
THE BROOKLYN FARMERS BALL
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 from 7:00 pm – 12:00 am
At the Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 4th Avenue
Eat, drink, and celebrate Brooklyn's Urban Agriculture and Food Justice Community with the Food Security Roundtable. All proceeds support the New York Delegation to the Growing Food and Justice Initiative gathering in Milwaukee, WI.
Tickets are $12-$25, and include a local, seasonal dinner and live music.
Organizations and individuals from throughout NYC are working together to send a delegation to the Growing Food and Justice Initiative gathering in Milwaukee at the end of October. This year GFJI is not just an event, it's the beginning of a national coaliton dedicated to building leadership, growing food justice, dismantling racism, and empowering communities. The New York delegation and their northeastern colleagues will be in attendance in Milwaukee this year learning how to bring that movement home. The delegation is a diverse collection of folks ranging from organizers with Mothers on the Move in the South Bronx to Just Food staff and volunteers working for (you guessed it) food justice all around NYC. Some of the farmers who grew organic vegetables for MOM and some Brooklyn community food justice organizers will be getting on the bus as well this season in northern VT and the Hudson Valley.
Growing Food and Justice for All has offered a partial scholarship for the thirty or so delegates, who must raise an additional $5,000 to pay the remaining costs and travel. This event is an opportunity for Brooklyn and New York City to show their will to have a better food system and their support for those hard working people who are making it happen.
Music by:
The Rude Mechanical Orchestra - Brooklyn's finest radical marching band
Spanglish Fly - The only band in NYC recreating the sounds of El Barrio circa 1968: Latin soul and bugalu.
dancealisadance - Beautiful, soulful indy-folk music featuring piano and acoustic guitar
Sponsoring Organizations include
Community Vision Council
Just Food
Mothers on the Move
Vehicles for Radical Organizing and Other Madness (VROOM)
The Food Security Roundtable
Those who cannot attend the Farmers Ball but would still like to support this work can do so easily at the Food Security Roundtable Website - www.foodpower.org.
Press Contacts:
Henry Harris, GFJI delegation co-organizer henry@foodpower.org cell: 917.922.5430
Jen Datka, BK Farmers' Ball coordinator jen@justfood.org cell: 646 498 4682
