For the month of November we are focusing on how we can use food to improve the quality of our lives. For two days we will educate, advocate and promote healthier living through films, presentations and an open market for you to have the opportunity to purchase foods and organic products.
Saturday, November 1st
We will begin with a screening of Soul Food Junkies by Byron Hurt.. This film sets out on a historical and culinary journey to learn more about the soul food tradition and its relevance to… Show more black cultural identity. Through candid interviews with soul food cooks, historians, and scholars, as well as with doctors, family members, and everyday people, the film puts this culinary tradition under the microscope to examine both its positive and negative consequences. Hurt also explores the socioeconomic conditions in predominantly black neighborhoods, where it can be difficult to find healthy options, and meets some pioneers in the emerging food justice movement who are challenging the food industry, encouraging communities to “go back to the land” by creating sustainable and eco-friendly gardens, advocating for healthier options in local supermarkets, supporting local farmers' markets, avoiding highly processed fast foods, and cooking healthier versions of traditional soul food.
Following the screening we will have Dr. Ama Bey from Kamit Natural Foods who has served the Charlotte community for years using holistic medicines and organic food to heal our community will talk to us about healthier alternatives to the traditional Soul Food and how what we don't know about the foods that we eat can affect us on all levels of our being, especially spiritually.
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SATURDAY, November 15TH
We will take nutrition and break it down on a biological level as it relates to the Black community. Urban Kryptonite: African Roots, Foreign Diseases is the first health documentary ever to delve deep into the mystifying quandary of disease and death in the African and African Diaspora community. Statistics show that African Americans comprise approximately 14% of the United States’ national population. Yet they suffer disproportionately from a myriad of diseases that are believed to be “genetic.” Oddly enough there is no empirical data linking the ancient ancestral continental Africans to many of these modern day so-called diseases. Contrary to conventional wisdom enslaved Africans did not arrive to the shores of the Americas as a sick people. This film addresses all of the folklore and propaganda associated with sickness in the black community. After viewing this film there will be zero doubt in the minds of melanated African descendants worldwide as to what they should eat, drink and do to promote life longevity.
Following the screening we will have Minister Enqui Sang Re-Al, who is also featured in the documentary and creator of The Amber Institute, will share his expertise on the coalation between foods and diseases and to dispell the myths that we have been told about certain "healing" foods and diseases that affect our health.
Ticket Info:
November 1st Event- $10
November 15th Event - $15
Both days $20
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