Cafeteria Man
Schedule
Sat Apr 26 2025 at 10:30 am to 01:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
Oak Park Main Library | Oak Park, IL
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Saturday, April 26, 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. CDTOak Park Public Library
834 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60301.
Free with a suggested $8 donation.
Richard Chisolm/2011/65 Min/Food Justice, Youth, Educational
Youth (10+), Teens, and young adults are encouraged to attend.
"Highly recommended for a wide range of classes in addition to family & consumer science programs. The film could be used to generate discussion about many topics, such as urban schools, healthy eating, childhood obesity, local food movement, economic issues, community involvement, and youth activism."
— Educational Media Reviews Online
"Richard Chisolm's elating movie about good-food guru Tony Geraci…celebrates Geraci for his profound grasp of what healthful eating means to public school students.”
— Baltimore Sun
"Cafeteria Man provides powerful ammunition in the fight to end the epidemic of childhood obesity."
— Jay A. Perman, MD, President, University of Maryland Baltimore
Film Description: Cafeteria Man takes a behind the scenes look at Tony Geraci’s sweeping, tenacious efforts to kick start school lunch reform in Baltimore’s schools, a large urban district that serves 83,000 students, and later in Memphis schools, with 200,000 kids. As the newly hired Food and Nutrition Director of the Baltimore’s public school district, Geraci hatches an ambitious, multi-faceted plan to feed students healthy, locally-sourced meals, teach them nutritional awareness, and offer them training and vocational opportunities in the world of food. His bold vision includes a 33-acre teaching farm, school vegetable gardens, student-designed meals, and meatless Monday’s. Cafeteria Man follows Geraci as he partners with a dedicated group of parents and students to overhaul a long-established, dysfunctional lunch program and battle the entrenched bureaucracy behind it. The film profiles Baltimore’s experience as it becomes recognized as part a burgeoning national movement, and includes appearances by food author Michael Pollan, First Lady Michelle Obama, and Assistant White House Chef Sam Kass.
We will also be screening one of the One Earth Young Filmmakers winning films If I Could by Saron Bahre. However, for the Academy for Global Citizenship screening, we will instead be screening a different One Earth Young Filmmakers winning film Monarchs in Motion by Mason Mirabile.
Stay after the film for an enlightening facilitated dialogue with relevant experts and advocates.
https://www.oneearthfilmfest.org/cafeteriaman
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Where is it happening?
Oak Park Main Library, 1st Floor Community Room 834 Lake Street - Oak Park Ave. & Lake Street St,Oak Park, Illinois, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
