Thursday, March 25, 7-9pm
Croatian Cultural Centre
3250 Commercial Drive (and 14th)
Vancouver, BC
(Transit: Take the #20 Victoria bus from the Commercial/Broadway skytrain station)
This event is free, however pre-registration is required
Click here to RSVP
The Inaugural Welch Community Dialogue presents:
GROWING OUT OF HUNGER
featuring Will Allen, CEO, Growing Power Community Food Centre, Milwaukee & Chicago
Find out how this former professional basketball player, corporate sales executive and urban farmer is feeding 10,000 people and starting a community food revolution out of his inner-city farms in Milwaukee and Chicago. Winner of the $500,000 MacArthur Fellowship in 2008, Will Allen is transforming the cultivation, production, and delivery of healthy foods to underserved urban populations http://www.growingpower.org/blog/
Stay tuned for more information on this event as it becomes available at http://www.sfu.ca/dialogue/study+practice/welch+dialogue.html
In partnership with the Real Estate Foundation of BC and SFU Centre for Dialogue (Planning Cities as if Food Matters)
Sponsored by the Lis and Bruce Welch Community Award
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