<div dir="auto">Sherry,<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It sounds like a wonderful film.</div><div dir="auto">Best of luck.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Lorraine Kells,</div><div dir="auto">Communications team</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, May 6, 2025, 1:33 PM Sherry Manning via Communications <<a href="mailto:communications@chicagocommunitygardens.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">communications@chicagocommunitygardens.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" size="4"><span class="gmail_default">Hi Chicago Community Gardens-</span><br clear="all"></font></div><div><span class="gmail_default"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" size="4"><br></font></span></div><div><span class="gmail_default"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" size="4"><div><div><span class="gmail_default">My name is Sherry Manning and I am the Founder and CEO of <a href="http://www.globalseedsavers.org/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">Global Seed Savers</a>. We are a Denver based international development non-profit that works to build food and seed sovereignty across the Philippines. </span></div><div><span class="gmail_default"><br></span></div><div><span class="gmail_default">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, </span><i>Hasik: "To Sow"</i> (view the film trailer <a href="https://vimeo.com/1024800720" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>) and learn more about the event in <a href="https://secure.givelively.org/event/global-seed-savers/chicago-premier-screening-of-hasik-to-sow-documentary-film" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">Chicago here</a>. </div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default">Below are some ways that you can engage with this special screening: </div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">- 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. </div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">- Consider sponsoring the screening. Please see the sponsorship packet attached. </div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">- Share about the screening with your networks on social media and other platforms. I am including the event flyer and <a href="http://bit.ly/hasikchicago" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a> is the link for tickets and more details for the screening. </div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">Looking forward to hearing back from you and I hope you and your community can join us next month for this exciting film screening. </div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">Thanks,</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">Sherry</div></div></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0.5em 0px 0px;letter-spacing:0.48px;color:rgb(8,8,9)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bolder">Film Credits:</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0.5em 0px 0px;letter-spacing:0.48px;color:rgb(8,8,9)">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. </p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0.5em 0px 0px;letter-spacing:0.48px;color:rgb(8,8,9)"><br></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0.5em 0px 0px;color:rgb(8,8,9)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bolder">Directed, Produced, & Edited by:</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0.5em 0px 0px;color:rgb(8,8,9)">Mandy Qua & Marissa Mejia</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0.5em 0px 0px;letter-spacing:0.48px;color:rgb(8,8,9)"><br style="box-sizing:border-box"></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bolder"><em style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(8,8,9)">HASIK's </em><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(8,8,9)">Primary Executive Producers: </span></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem"><span style="color:rgb(8,8,9)">Princeton ReachOut 56-81-06 Herbert C. Paschen, Jr. '56 Fellowship</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem"><a href="https://www.princetonreachout.org/" style="color:rgb(74,74,74);box-sizing:border-box;background-color:rgb(254,254,254)" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">Princeton ReachOut Paschen Fellowship</a></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(8,8,9)">Global Seed Savers</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(8,8,9)"><br></span></p><img alt="GSS HASIK Chicago Poster.jpg" width="405" height="506"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(8,8,9)"><br></span></p></div></font></span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif"><br></span></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">Sherry Manning </span><br></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">pronouns: <a href="https://www.mypronouns.org/what-and-why" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">she/her/s</a> </span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:garamond,serif"><a href="http://www.globalseedsavers.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank"><img width="420" height="210"></a></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:garamond,"times new roman",serif;font-size:large">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</span><span style="font-family:garamond,"times new roman",serif;font-size:large"></span><span style="font-family:garamond,"times new roman",serif;font-size:large"> the original stewards of these lands. Learn more </span><a href="https://posnercenter.org/land-acknowledgment/" style="font-family:garamond,"times new roman",serif;font-size:large" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a><span style="font-family:garamond,"times new roman",serif;font-size:large">. </span></div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><div><font face="garamond, serif" size="4"><b>Save Seeds. Grow Food. Celebrate Heritage. </b></font></div><div><font face="garamond, serif" size="4"><b><a href="https://globalseedsavers.giv.sh/ba3e" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">Donate Today</a> </b></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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