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Schedule & Tickets
Commonwealth Club Panels
San Francisco is fortunate to be home to the Commonwealth Club, one of the oldest and largest public affairs forums in the country. With members of all ages and backgrounds, the Commonwealth Club has set the stage for civic engagement across the Bay Area since 1903. Slow Food Nation is thrilled to partner with them for an outstanding series of panels and conversations leading up to the main event over Labor Day weekend. Please join us for these stimulating evenings with members of the Bay Area community and inspiring guests from near and far.
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Eat the Right Way
August 6 | 5:30pm reception, 6:00pm program | Location: The Blue Room at the Commonwealth Club | 595 Market St., 2nd Floor San Francisco, CA, 94105
Tickets: through the Commonwealth Club
Terms like “organic,” “local” and “sustainable” are pasted all over our food. As they turn into media buzzwords, many of us wonder about the differences between these terms and how our food choices affect our bodies, our families and our planet. Panelists will shed light on what it means to eat the right way.Panelists:
Kevin Lunny, Owner, Drakes Bay Oyster Company
Helene York, Director, Bon Appétit Management Company Foundation
Jessica Prentice, Author and Director of Education for Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture
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The Centralization of Our Food System
August 14 | 5:30pm reception, 6:00pm program | Location: The Blue Room at the Commonwealth Club, 595 Market St., 2nd Floor San Francisco, CA, 94105
Tickets: through the Commonwealth Club
Centralization impacts every level of the American food system, from the small number of crops we grow to the smaller number of corporations that process them to the difficulties neighborhood-based groups face in trying to support healthy communities. This panel will explore how centralization affects production, consumption and economic cycles in our food system.Panelists:
Don Shaffer, President and CEO, Rudolph Steiner Foundation
Paul Frankel, Managing Director, Ecosa Capital
Michael Dimock, President, Roots of Change
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Building a Slow Food Nation
August 21 | 5:30pm reception, 6:00pm program | The Blue Room at the Commonwealth Club, 595 Market St., 2nd Floor San Francisco, CA, 94105
Tickets: through the Commonwealth Club
Some of the world’s most pressing questions about health, culture, the environment, education, social justice and the global economy are all deeply connected to the food we eat and how it is produced. Our panelists will explore ideas and beliefs about how to build a food system that is good, clean and fair.Bill Fujimoto, Owner, Monterey Market
Sam Mogannam, Managing Partner, BiRite Market
Anya Fernald, Executive Director, Slow Food Nation
Commonwealth Club
The Commonwealth Club of California is a non-profit, non-partisan educational organization based in Northern California. Founded in 1903, it is the oldest and largest public affairs forum in the United States. Membership is open to everyone. www.commonwealthclub.org