Judith Helfand/2018/75 min/Historical Perspectives, Social Justice, Climate Change

FILM DESCRIPTION: Chicago suffered the worst heat disaster in U.S history in 1995, when 739 residents – mostly elderly and black – died over the course of one week. As “Cooked” links the heat wave’s devastation back to the underlying manmade disaster of structural racism, it delves deeply into one of our nation’s biggest growth industries: Disaster Preparedness. Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Judith Helfand uses her signature serious-yet-quirky-style as interlocutor and narrator to forge inextricable connections between the cataclysmic natural disasters we’re willing to see and prepare for, and the slow-motion disasters we’re not.

Arrive early as Forty Acres Fresh Market will be there with a produce stand! Bring a bag and shop a generous sampling of their market, where they will have over 35 varieties of fresh fruits and veggies for purchase before and after the film.

Join us after the film for a discussion with the film's director, Judith Helfand, as well as local advocates Orrin Williams of University of Illinois at Chicago and the Center for Urban Transformation (who appears in the film), and Athena Williams, Executive Director of the Oak Park Regional Housing Center and its Invest in Austin program. Learn from the above and other action partners about concrete action opportunities related to the film's topics, as well as from Forty Acres Fresh Market, Counting On Chicago Coalition 2020 Census, Austin Green Team/Austin Garden Collective, BUILD Chicago, and Austin Coming Together. Faciliator: Stephanie McCray, Executive Coach at Executive Material. Refreshments will be available.

Doors open 30 minutes before start time. Arrive early to avoid lines and get best seats. ADA compliant accessible venue. Teens and young adults encouraged to attend. "PG-13" May contain heavy themes, graphic images or language.

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