Author of the article: Rita DeMontis
Publishing date: Jun 22, 2021 • 1 day ago • 5 minute read • Photo by Alex-Hakonson /First We Eat
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Take three bewildered teenagers, a skeptical husband, no salt, no sugar, no take-out and the nearest Starbucks over 500 km away and what do you get? A stunningly powerful documentary on the adventures of a family who chucked all their supermarket comforts and ate off the land for one long, memorable year filled with love, tears and longing for a bite of something that wasn’t foraged, preserved or hunted.
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One of the many problems COVID-19 has brought to attention is our troubled relationship with food. Queen’s alum and doctor-turned-filmmaker Suzanne Crocker, however, was confronted with this fraught relationship long before the pandemic hit.
The pandemic has emptied shelves, increased the amount of first-time food bank users, shut down restaurants, and exacerbated eating disorders. It’s transformed the humble grocery store trip into a significant event and turned baking into a hobby so popular that stores ran out of flour and yeast when the pandemic first started.
Crocker, the director of
First We Eat, first witnessed the fragility of our food supply chain several years ago. She lives in Dawson City, where 97 per cent of the food supply is trucked in. In 2012, the only road in and out of the Yukon territory was blocked for several days by a landslide.
Author of the article: Fish Griwkowsky
Publishing date: Jan 07, 2021 • January 7, 2021 • 1 minute read • Keita Kankam s pandemic painting is in the Nina window at Edmonton City Centre. Photo by Fish Griwkowsky /Postmedia
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As We Travel Through (redux): This show of RBC emerging artists has moved from the Nina on 118 Avenue to the centre’s window gallery downtown meaning you can have a gander from outside if you’re in the area.
Artists include Breanna Barrington, Edith Chu, Mika Haykowsky, Ashley Harrington, Keita Kankam and Zana Wensel, who has an amazing combo of textile sculpture and painting right on the northeast corner. Also have a look for Chu’s wonderful painting of a man playing chess with a panda!