To coincide with both Earth Day and the kick off of AULA’s next residency for the Master of Arts Urban Sustainability Program, AULA’s earth-friendly graduate program is hosting a Sustainable Supper. AULA friends and faculty will gather on Tuesday, April 26 from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Culver City campus, 400 Corporate Pointe, for a delicious vegan meal prepared by the Seasonal, Organic, Local (SOL) Catering Cooperative and which will include local produce grown by the South Central Farmers. The supper is free and open to the public.

The focus of the Sustainable Supper will be backyard gardens and the challenges facing urban farmers, and will highlight the work of the Ujima Farming Project. Ujima, from the Swahili meaning “cooperative work experience,” intends to promote community-run economic development with farming projects that grow local, organic, fresh foods for the LA Black community. The project will employ African Americans and attempt to create an economically viable business that could pay a living wage, while growing healthy foods for Black consumers. Speaking at the event will be Dr. Edna Bonacich, Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Ethnic Studies at UC Riverside and Assistant to the Director for the Ujima Farming Project, and Ali Bhai, Program Manager for Root Down LA and Director of Programs for the Ujima Farming Project. AULA students from the MAOM will also speak and will present ways to make an impact in the community with gardening.

So come out and contribute your own special “act of green” in honor of Earth Day 2011 and simultaneously enjoy an ecologically-minded meal hosted by AULA’s very own ecologically-minded educational program.

SOURCE: Antioch LA