"The New Peasants"- Potluck and Movie Screening!

"What happens when the values of the culture you’ve always known no longer align with how you see the world?"

Join us for a community potluck and movie screening! We will be watching the documentary "The New Peasants", a movie about a family in suburban Australia who have dared to radically live their values.

What to expect:

4-5pm: Arrive at the University Townhouses Clubhouse, and bring a dish to pass (please bring a label with ingredients). Or just show up, all are welcome. Bonus points if you bring your own dishes, but we will also have compostable dishes available.
5/5:30-7ish: We will watch the movie! It's about an hour long, and then we will have time for a casual community discussion afterwards.

This event is free, but we will have a donation jar out if you want contribute to the cost of the screening license and the rental of the space. Any generosity there is very helpful!

From the New Peasants website:
"The New Peasants offers an intimate look into the life of Meg, Patrick, Zephyr, and Woody. A family who, for 20 years, have been transitioning away from modern industrial culture toward a radically simple, sustainable, and beautiful way of life.

Concerns about the industrial food system and environmental crises provided the family’s initial motivation to live differently. Now it’s 15 years since they’ve eaten from a supermarket or owned a car. The household, living intentionally below the poverty line and meeting 80% of their needs without using money, is nonetheless rich in so many ways. Wealth is found in their cellar of preserved foods, connections with community, saved seeds, homesteading skills and the time to focus on what really matters in life. Yet the decision to live this way has brought profound challenges for their family, in the form of their eldest son’s encounters with the law. These experiences have produced immense grief, but, in the end, also great joy."