DIVE! Free Screening on 5/5/11

College Greens UW, is holding its 2nd annual three-part film/speaker series dedicated to issues of environmental and social justice.

At this event they will be showing DIVE! (Media Center DVD COMPE 001), a film about 'dumpster-diving' as a means of raising awareness to food waste and justice. Following the film, UW graduate student and CHID instructor David Giles will lead a discussion about how we can engage food waste and justice issues here in Seattle.

It's a free event and open to the public.

"Free yummy food will be provided at the showing!" Liberated from a dumpster? Not sure.

What: DIVE!—Living Off America’s Waste
Website: http://www.divethefilm.com/
When: Thursday, May 12th @ 5:30pm
Where: Smith 120
Speaker: David Giles

Film Description: Inspired by a curiosity about society’s careless habit of sending food straight to landfills, DIVE! follows filmmaker Jeremy Seifert and friends as they dumpster dive in the back alleys and gated garbage receptacles of Los Angeles supermarkets. In the process, they salvage thousands of dollars worth of good, edible food–resulting in an eye-opening documentary that is equal parts entertainment, guerilla journalism and call to action.

Speaker Bio: David Giles, a PhD candidate in anthropology at the University of Washington, is teaching an advanced special topics CHID course about everyday experience in the shared spaces of the city. The course, titled The Vagaries of Home: Vagrancy, Value and the Abject, encourages students to examine the unknown and unnoticed cultural, political and ecological histories of the city, “from the desks of city planners and politicians to the alleys and interstices written in between the lines of their decisions and the homeless who sleep there.” After the film screening, David will speak about the political and cultural aspects of hunger and waste in Seattle.