TEDx Manhattan “Changing the Way We Eat” Viewing Party

Letelier Theater – Saturday, February 12, 2011

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9:30am – 10:00 am

Registration and coffee

10:00 am (Local presentations)

Introduction

Alice Chalmers, Executive Director of Future Harvest-CASA

Pablo Elliott, Local Food Project at Airlie

Maura Balliett, Fresh and Local CSA

Paul Mock, Mock’s Greenhouse

10:30 am (Webcast begins from Manhattan)

Session 1 – What happened?

Performance by ETHEL

Welcome

Laurie David, Environmental activist, producer and author

Carolyn Steel, Architect and Author - How Food Shapes our Cities (TEDTalk Video)

Cheryl Rogowski, Family Farmer and McArthur Genius Award recipient

Karen Hudson, President Dairy Education Alliance, co-founder ICCAW (Illinois Citizens for Clean Air and Water)

Ken Cook, President and Co-Founder Environmental Working Group

Performance

Scott Kahan, MD, MPH, Co-Director George Washington University Weight Management Center, Clinical Director S.T.O.P Obesity Alliance, Faculty George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Kathy Lawrence, Program Director School Food FOCUS

12:15pm (Webcast offline)

Lunch provided by Clyde’s of Georgetown and 1789 Restaurant

1:10 pm (Local presentations)

Ibti Vincent, Arcadia Center for Sustainable Food and Agriculture

Margaret Morgan-Hubbard, ECO City Farms

John Brill, Sligo Creek Farm and Our House Youth Garden

1:30 pm (Webcast returns)

Session 2 – Where are we?

Dan Barber, Executive Chef and Co-Owner Blue Hill Restaurant - How I Fell in Love with a Fish (TEDTalk Video)

2011 TEDxManhattan Fellows

Brian Halweil, Senior Fellow Worldwatch Institute, Co-Director Nourishing the Planet, Editor Edible East End, Publisher Edible Manhattan and Brooklyn

Lucas Knowles, USDA Coordinator Know Your Farmer Know Your Food

Barbara Askins, President & CEO 125^th Street Business Improvement District

Britta Riley, Artist and Co-Founder, Windowfarms

John Fraser, Chef/Proprietor Dovetail and What Happens When restaurants

Performance

Dr. Melony Samuels, Founder and Director Bed-Stuy Campaign Against Hunger (BSCAH)

Ian Cheney, Co-Founder Truck Farm, Peabody award-winning filmmaker 

Josh Viertel, President, Slow Food USA

3:15 pm (Webcast offline)

Break – refreshments provided by Yola and MOM’s Organic Market

3:40 pm (Local presentations)

Woody Woodruff, Red Wiggler Community Farm

Kristin Carbone, Radix Farm

Lynne Ferguson, Ferguson Family Farm

4:00 pm (Webcast returns)

Session 3 – Where are we going?

Dr. William Li, President Angiogenesis Foundation – Can We Eat to Starve Cancer? (TEDTalk Video)

Dr. William Li update

Michael Conard, Assistant Director Urban Design Lab and Adjunct Associate Professor, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University

Elizabeth Ü, Founder and Executive Director Finance for Food

Performance

TEDxManhattan Challenge

Frederick Kaufman, Professor CUNY Graduate School of Journalism

Curt Ellis, Co-Founder FoodCorps, Peabody award-winning filmmaker

Michel Nischan, Chef, President/CEO Wholesome Wave Foundation, Owner/Founder Dressing Room restaurant, cookbook author

6:00 pm Webcast offline

The Viewing Party for TEDx Manhattan at the Letelier Theater is free to all through the generosity of:

SPONSORS - Ted Rouse, Partner, Big City Farms; Gus Schumacher, Vice President for Policy, Wholesome Wave Foundation 

LUNCH SPONSOR - Clyde's of Georgetown and 1789 Restaurant

BREAK SPONSORS - Yola: Food for Thought; MOM's Organic Market

A Community Information Exchange will include handouts from our speakers and others for attendees to take home. Future Harvest-CASA's Amazing Grazing directory of grass-fed meat producers will also be available. Attendees are welcome to bring their own flyers and information to share as well.