Slow Events

What's on your plate?

Christ Church Grammar School Ethics Centre and Slow Food Perth will present ‘What’s on your plate?’, a public forum at the school in Claremont on 24 August.

The panel will include:

• Priest Frank Sheehan, Christ Church Grammar School chaplain and senior canon of Perth’s St George’s Anglican Cathedral
• Journalist Anthony Georgeff, editor of Spice magazine
• Academic Felicity Newman, an author and lecturer in food and culture at Murdoch University’s Centre for Everyday Life
• Farmer Annie Kavanagh, who raises berkshire pigs on organic principles at her Spencers Brook farm in the Avon Valley
• A Christ Church Grammar School senior student
• Parliamentarian Max Trenorden, The Nationals’ leading Member for the Agricultural Region, and
• Kim Chance, former Labor minister for agriculture and food [2001-2008], now chairman of the Australian Landcare Council

The forum will discuss the ethics of farming and eating. Do we know what’s on our plate, who produced it, how it was produced, and whether it is local or imported, fresh and seasonal or from last year’s crop? Do we care, or do we just eat?

Event details
Date: Tuesday 24 August 2010
Time: 7:30pm
Location: Christ Church Grammar School, Queenslea Drive, Claremont WA 6010
Fee: entry by gold coin donation, with proceeds to Anglicare
RSVP: 18 August