Winter Events
BORN will be participating in the
Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration on Sunday Jan. 17th
At The Emerson Center Ballroom.
The celebration is sponsored by the Bozeman Public Library, Emerson Cultural Center, One Million Ways Club, We Are the Dream, Gallatin Valley Human Rights Taskforce, MSU Office for Community Involvement and other community organizations. Stop by and visit with local non-profits and community groups from our area. There will be live music, short speeches and a commerative march.
This Event is free and open to the public.
We hope you will come on down to the Emerson Cultural Arts Center on Thursday Jan. 28th for a screening of the film FOOD Inc.
In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government's regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. We have bigger-breasted chickens, the perfect pork chop, herbicide-resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes that won't go bad, but we also have new strains of E. coli—the harmful bacteria that causes illness for an estimated 73,000 Americans annually. We are riddled with widespread obesity, particularly among children, and an epidemic level of diabetes among adults.
Featuring interviews with such experts as Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), Michael Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto) along with forward thinking social entrepreneurs like Stonyfield's Gary Hirshberg and Polyface Farms' Joel Salatin, Food, Inc. reveals surprising—and often shocking truths—about what we eat, how it's produced, who we have become as a nation and where we are going from here.
Click on the following link to view the trailer: FOOD Inc.
Film starts at 7pm, Tickets available
at the door for $3, Doors open at 6pm
This event is brought to you through a collaboration of the following organizations:
The Bozeman Community Food Coop,
The Bozeman Film Festival
BORN Inc., Townes Harvest, Farm To School, B Bar Ranch, Big Sky Premium Meats, Sweet Pea Bakery, Zone 4, The Bozone, Montana Fish Co., Yellowstone Distributing, Stix and many more.
We hope you come out and see this amazing film.
Bioneers: Revolution From The Heart of Nature Radio Series airs every Friday At 6:30pm
on Yellowstone Public Radio
Stay tuned for great shows and inspiration from The Bioneers.
What is Bioneers?
Founder Kenny Ausubel coined the term Bioneers in 1990 to describe an emerging culture. Bioneers are social and scientific innovators from all walks of life and disciplines who have peered deep into the heart of living systems to understand how nature operates, and to mimic "nature's operating instructions" to serve human ends without harming the web of life. Nature's principles—kinship, cooperation, diversity, symbiosis and cycles of continuous creation absent of waste—can also serve as metaphoric guideposts for organizing an equitable, compassionate and democratic society.
Each October in San Rafael, CA, the Bioneers come together as a group of leading social and scientific innovators to share stories, present model solutions and network with each other. To stimulate and enhance these efforts on a local level, Bioneers beams a simultaneous broadcast of the Conference plenary talks to some 20 sites around the country. Those local sites view the national speakers and produce their own workshops based on local/regional issues and organizing needs.
This year will be the 20th Anniversary of The Bioneers Conference to learn more about the national organization please visit The Bioneers at www.bioneers.org
2009 will be the 7th year Bozeman has been host to the Northern Rockies Bioneers Conference. We are excited to be able to bring this amazing conference to our bioregion and, as always, look forward to the great gathering of presenters, activists, educators, children, and citizens to get inspired, to connect with one another and to create social change in our world.
2008 Northern Rockies Bioneers Highlights
View What Is Bioneers? Video
