[Communications] Up-Coming Seed Saving Documentary Film Screening

Tue May 6 14:26:42 CDT 2025

Hi Lorraine-

Thanks for your quick reply and willingness to share about this film
screening on your Facebook Page. We do have a FB Event page
<https://www.facebook.com/share/16N1AbowdW/> as well you are welcome to
link in your post.

I appreciate your thoughtfulness with language for the discounted tickets.
We are most happy to add the term Community Gardener to this discount level
and I have already done this. I agree that language can be a divisive thing
and it is wonderful to have clarity on this.

We are also a non-profit and I know we are all struggling with funding
currently. Our primary goal with this film is to get as many people to see
it as possible in addition to raising support for our mission and work
across the Philippines. So we would love to have any of your
community gardeners join us and we hope the $20 discount helps with that!

Please let me know if you have any other questions or need anything else to
support the FB post. I hope to connect with you in person for the screening
on June 27th!

Many thanks and keep up all your great work in community gardening!

Cheers,

Sherry

On Tue, May 6, 2025 at 12:52 PM Lorraine Kells <lxkells at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sherry,
>
> Thank you for this information. I would like to post it on our Facebook
> Page, but $40 may be a  stretch for many of our community gardeners.
> Although you offer a discount to students and farmers, we dont speak of
> ourselves as urban ag non profit people. Our community gardeners are more
> likely to identify as just that, or maybe grower. CCGA is a no profit, all
> volunteer organization, and while we joyfully collaborate with urban
> farmers, we're not like to take the discount offered to farmers. Language
> tends to divide us, unfortunately, unless you can clarify the discount.
>
> It sounds like a wonderful film.
> Best of luck.
>
> Lorraine Kells,
> Communications team
>
> On Tue, May 6, 2025, 1:33 PM Sherry Manning via Communications <
> communications at chicagocommunitygardens.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi Chicago Community Gardens-
>>
>> My name is Sherry Manning and I am the Founder and CEO of Global Seed
>> Savers <http://www.globalseedsavers.org/>. We are a Denver based
>> international development non-profit that works to build food and seed
>> sovereignty across the Philippines.
>>
>> One of our Chicago based board members recommended I reach out to you all
>> about an up-coming documentary film screening we are hosting in Chicago on
>> Friday, June 27th at the FACETS Film Forum the film is entitled,  *Hasik:
>> "To Sow"* (view the film trailer here <https://vimeo.com/1024800720>)
>> and learn more about the event in Chicago here
>> <https://secure.givelively.org/event/global-seed-savers/chicago-premier-screening-of-hasik-to-sow-documentary-film>
>> .
>>
>> Below are some ways that you can engage with this special screening:
>>
>> - Tabling at the opening reception prior to the screening. Tables will be
>> provided by the venue and you are welcome to share information about your
>> programs and offerings at Chicago Community Gardens even better if you have
>> seeds to share or sell. Tabling will include admission for 2 guests to the
>> film. The reception will start at 5:30pm. You can arrive by 5pm to set up.
>>
>> - Consider sponsoring the screening. Please see the sponsorship packet
>> attached.
>>
>> - Share about the screening with your networks on social media and other
>> platforms. I am including the event flyer and here
>> <http://bit.ly/hasikchicago> is the link for tickets and more details
>> for the screening.
>>
>> Looking forward to hearing back from you and I hope you and your
>> community can join us next month for this exciting film screening.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Sherry
>>
>> Film Credits:
>>
>> This documentary film shares the stories of seed savers from across the
>> three regions of the Philippines - Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. Despite
>> encountering various systemic barriers, these farmers persist in their
>> seed-saving efforts in the hopes of preserving Indigenous culture, native
>> biodiversity, and agricultural heritage.
>>
>>
>> Directed, Produced, & Edited by:
>>
>> Mandy Qua & Marissa Mejia
>>
>>
>> *HASIK's *Primary Executive Producers:
>>
>> Princeton ReachOut 56-81-06 Herbert C. Paschen, Jr. '56 Fellowship
>>
>> Princeton ReachOut Paschen Fellowship
>> <https://www.princetonreachout.org/>
>>
>> Global Seed Savers
>>
>>
>> [image: GSS HASIK Chicago Poster.jpg]
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Sherry Manning
>> pronouns: she/her/s <https://www.mypronouns.org/what-and-why>
>>
>> <http://www.globalseedsavers.org>
>> Sent from my home office in Denver, CO which sits on the stolen and
>> rightful lands of the Cheyenne and Arapaho and 48 indigenous peoples that
>> call Colorado home the original stewards of these lands. Learn more here
>> <https://posnercenter.org/land-acknowledgment/>.
>>
>> *Save Seeds. Grow Food. Celebrate Heritage.  *
>> *Donate Today <https://globalseedsavers.giv.sh/ba3e> *
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>>
>

-- 
Sherry Manning
pronouns: she/her/s <https://www.mypronouns.org/what-and-why>

<http://www.globalseedsavers.org>
Sent from my home office in Denver, CO which sits on the stolen and
rightful lands of the Cheyenne and Arapaho and 48 indigenous peoples that
call Colorado home the original stewards of these lands. Learn more here
<https://posnercenter.org/land-acknowledgment/>.

*Save Seeds. Grow Food. Celebrate Heritage.  *
*Donate Today <https://globalseedsavers.giv.sh/ba3e> *
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