Additional Meetings, Events, and Exhibits

Before the Conference

Farm to School Network Annual Meeting

Thursday, October 8 – Friday, October 9

Fort Des Moines Hotel, State Room

During the Conference

2009 Community Food Film Festival

Sunday, October 11 – Tuesday, October 13
Room 205 (E)

CFSC’s first annual film festival will run for the length of the conference and will feature thought-provoking documentaries. From the Academy Award Nominated documentary The Garden, to Eric Schlosser’s groundbreaking Food, Inc., the 2009 Community Food Film Festival serves up a delicious mix of shorts and features that will spark your imagination and whet your appetite. From urban gardens in Cleveland, Ohio to the fields and orchards of rural Oregon, you’ll be transported across the country and back again with stories told through the lens of a new crop of food-focused filmmakers. Two Angry Moms may get you primed for action, and Fresh might just make your stomach growl – either way you wont want to miss this year’s selections. So sit back, relax, and enjoy the show!

Sunday

11:15 am – 12:45 pm

TWO ANGRY MOMS (86 min)

2:30 – 3:45 pm

INGREDIENTS (66 min)

4:00 – 5:30 pm

FRESH (72 min)

5:45 – 7:00 pm

THE GARDEN (80 min)

Monday

11:15 am – 12:15 pm

EATING ALASKA (56 min)

12:15 – 2:00 pm

POLYCULTURES (100 min)

2:00 – 3:30 pm

WHAT’S ON YOUR PLATE? (76 min)

4:00 – 5:30 pm

FOOD, INC. (96 min)

5:30 – 6:30 pm

GOOD FOOD (57 min version)

7:45 – 8:15 pm

BIG RIVER (26 min)

8:15 – 10:00 pm

KING CORN (90 min)

Tuesday

10:15 – 11:45 am

Film Shorts: EATING FOR THE DEAD (7 min), HUNGRY FOR CHANGE (10 min), GREENHORNS (20 min), DIG THE EARTH (45 min)

Poster Presentations

Sunday, October 11 – Tuesday, October 13
Skywalk Level Foyer

Meet & greet the presenters on Sunday, 5:45 – 7 pm, and Monday, 11 am – 12:15 pm

The conference will include a display of posters highlighting innovative components of food security projects across the country. Poster presentations provide an informal opportunity for networking and exchanging innovative ideas, and for useful feedback and discussion. The content, creativity, and design of the posters promises to engage conference attendees with ideas and insights for their programs back home.

Exhibit Hall

Sunday, October 11 – Tuesday, October 13
Room 205

Visit the exhibit hall to learn about nonprofits, higher education institutions, and businesses working to promote community food security.

The Food Timeline Activity

Sunday, October 11 – Tuesday, October 13

We invite all to participate in an interactive timeline of the food movement. Videos, photographs, and interviews will engage the attendees’ creative minds, and personal and historical perspectives. The compiled information will be used to launch an interactive time line online.

Jerry DeWitt, “Farm and Heartlands” Photography Exhibit

Sunday, October 11 – Tuesday, October 13
Street Level Foyer

The “Farm and Heartlands” exhibit will showcase the photographs, writing and published work of Jerry Dewitt, the retiring Director of the Leopold Center at Iowa State University.  It is with great honor that we will show his masterful photographic talent. This is Mr. DeWitt’s final year with the Leopold Center, where he has addressed monumental change in food security issues around the world.

Farmscape Theatrical Presentation by Mary Swander

Sunday, October 11,  2:30 – 3:45 PM

This play documents American farmscape through interviews with real people involved in real changes in how we grow our food and live our lives in the rural United States. You’ll take delight in a sip of Zinfandel at a new winery and savor the taste of organic vegetables on a truck on its way to the local farmer’s market. You’ll make a stop at a bed and breakfast and Hispanic cultural center and gaze out the window at restored wetlands and prairie. You’ll also suit up in protective clothing and a mask before you enter a hog confinement operation and you’ll watch pigs move quickly down a conveyor belt at an IBP slaughtering plant. You’ll experience the David and Goliath story of an organic farmer up against the economic forces of the 3500 acre agri-business operation next door. In the end, you’ll understand that during the pioneer days, farming completely changed the ecosystem of the prairie. A hundred and fifty years later, this landscape is dramatically changing again. For more information please go to the website of Mary Swander.

Walking Tour of Des Moines

Sunday, October 11, 5:45 – 7:00 PM

Conference attendees will have the opportunity to attend a guided walking tour of Des Moines, Iowa featuring public art and historical pieces around downtown.  The tour will end at the Pappajohn Sculpture Garden, where the Garden of Eatin’ reception will take place until 9:30 pm.

After the Conference

Strategy Session on a Campaign to End the World Food Crisis

Tuesday, October 13, 2009, Noon – 5 pm

Polk County Convention Center, Room 137/138

Immediately following the CFSC conference, join the US Working Group on the Food Crisis to build an inclusive and unifying campaign to end the crisis of our food system. The goal of the campaign is to bring attention to the underlying causes of the food crisis and to promote the real solutions needed to fix our broken food system. We aim to develop messages to amplify the voices of the many movements fixing the food system, and encourage stronger connections between US-based groups and with international food issues.

IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING the Community Food Security Coalition Conference (as you make your travel plans, please plan to stay in Des Moines an extra night, or book an evening flight out) For more information and to RSVP, contact: Tristan Quinn-Thibodeau, WHY, tristan@whyhunger.org.

Iowa Hunger Summit “Hunger Luncheon”

Tuesday, October 13, Noon – 1:30 pm

Des Moines Marriott Downtown Hotel

The Hunger Luncheon is part of the Iowa Hunger Summit, an event hosted by the World Food Prize.  The luncheon will feature a keynote address by Vicki Escarra, president and CEO of Feeding America and remarks by other state and national leaders.  The “Hunger Luncheon” will also feature meals used by Iowa organizations in anti-hunger programs, and the announcement of the grand total of Iowa’s contribution to the fight against hunger in 2008-2009.  The luncheon is free and open to the public; please register in advance to reserve a seat.

The Iowa Hunger Summit seeks to gather leaders from across Iowa representing community organizations, business and industry, state and local government, social agencies, churches and religious communities, schools and universities, and other groups that lead or participate in projects to confront hunger.