13 Days of Celebrating the Earth: April 17

How good is the food in public school lunch rooms?

It might be worse than you thought.

Lunch Line, documentary screening and reception with the filmmaker

When: 7:00pm-10:00pm

Where: Pugh Auditorium; Shorty’s Restaurant

Campus Kitchen’s Wake Up to Food Week is sponsoring a screening of the acclaimed documentary Lunch Line about the U.S. School Lunch Program.

“Lunch Line follows six kids from one of the toughest neighborhoods in Chicago as they set out to fix school lunch — and end up at the White House. Their unlikely journey parallels the dramatic transformation of school lunch from a patchwork of local anti-hunger efforts to a robust national feeding program. The film tracks the behind-the-scenes details of school lunch and childhood hunger from key moments in the 1940s, 1960s, and 1980s to the present, revealing political twists, surprising alliances, and more common ground than people might realize.” according to the Lunch Line web site.

A Q&A with filmmaker, Michael Graziano, and a reception will follow in Shorty’s Restaurant.

Action: Commit to educating yourself about what’s going on in the world by viewing documentaries, reading the news, and taking local action about something that you feel passionately about.