I am excited to be moderating an incredible panel of experts (see below) following the screening of the 52-minute documentary The Last Pig on Thursday, April 19 from 7 to 10 p.m. in the BTC Auditorium.
“The Last Pig” (2017, www.thelastpig.com) is a non-graphic, lyrical meditation on what it means to be a sentient creature with the power to kill. Immersive, experiential, with sparse inner reflections, the film follows a pig farmer through his crisis of faith in his final season of slaughtering pigs. It earned director Allison Argo the Zelda Penzel “Giving Voice to the Voiceless” award at the 2017 Hamptons International Film Festival.
Please don’t miss this film and the panel and audience discussion to follow with Allison Argo, the award-winning director of “The Last Pig,” the farmer Bob Comis, who now grows vegetables in Schoharie County, and Kathy Stevens, director of the Catskill Animal Sanctuary, where many of Bob’s animals found new lives!
This is such a vital topic especially in light of the USDA proposal to relax restrictions on high speed pig slaughter.
Our event is co-sponsored by the Cultural Affairs Program and the Animal Outreach Club, my last as co-adviser. We are honored to bring this caliber of professionals and visionaries to our campus and the evening promises not to disappoint.
Free and open to the public. Come one, come all and meet these extraordinary movers and shakers, and be inspired to help make the change we need to see.
Thank you, Maria Zemantauski, coordinator of Cultural Affairs, for your tireless efforts in making this evening possible. Another superb evening at Hudson Valley Community College will take place in large part to your efforts.
For more information, contact Dr. Val Waldin at v.waldin@hvcc.edu or Maria Z. at m.zemantauski@hvcc.edu.
Published: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 12:21:54 +0000 by v.waldin