Schedule of films + speakers

Join us for four days full of festival goodness. Check out which films & speakers are featured each day, browse the trailers, get your tickets and vote for your favorites!

SaturdayMay 2810:00AM

Urban Roots

90 mins / 2011 / USA
Canadian Premiere

URBAN ROOTS, directed by Detroit-native Mark McInnis is a documentary that tells the powerful story of a small group of unique individuals involved in Detroit’s urban agricultural movement. The film follows the inspiring stories of several agricultural programs, each one designed to address a specific issue. Not only are the organizations amazingly productive and emotionally driven, but the people tilling the soil and picking the harvest have fantastic stories to tell.

Speaker Panel

David Tracey, author/designer
Arzeena Hamir, agrologist, Richmond Food Security Society

David Tracey is a writer and designer specializing in community ecology. His design firm EcoUrbanist provides environmental site design and consultation to private, community-based and government clients. His reports for media around the world focus on the connections between politics, culture and the environment.

He is the author of the recently published, Urban Agriculture: Ideas and Designs for the New Food Revolution. He has also written Guerrilla Gardening: A Manualfesto and the comedy, The Miracle Tree.

Arzeena Hamir is an agrologist and works as the Coordinator for the Richmond Food Security Society, a non-profit group that promotes local food production and consumption. She earned her Bachelor's degree in Crop Science from the University of Guelph and her Master's degree in Sustainable Agriculture from the University of London, England.

Arzeena worked abroad for many years as a CUSO volunteer in Thailand and as a researcher in Jamaica, India, and Bangladesh. One of her current priorities is to engage the Chinese-Canadian community in Richmond in the food security conversation.

After the film, join PATCH for a free family-friendly container gardening workshop from 12pm-2pm. Space limited. First come first serve. Location: SFU-Woodwards, rain (Theatre T), sunshine (Terrace). Materials supplied.