The San Marcos Unitarian Universalist Fellowship is pleased to invite you to the tenth presentation of Voices at the Table. The free series is held on the first Sunday of the month, with the aim of building awareness and understanding of different perspectives and experiences. Attendees are invited to bring their questions and engage in lively dialogue.
Bullfrog Films: “Chicago suffered the worst heat disaster in U.S. history in 1995, when 739 residents—mostly elderly and black—died over the course of one week. As COOKED links the deadly heat wave’s devastation back to the underlying manmade disaster of structural racism, it delves deep into one of our nation’s biggest growth industries: Disaster Preparedness.
“Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Judith Helfand uses her signature serious-yet-quirky, connect-the-dots style to forge inextricable connections between the cataclysmic natural disasters we’re willing to see and prepare for the slow-motion disasters we’re not. That is, until an extreme weather event hits and they are made exponentially more deadly and visible.
“But whether it was the heat wave in Chicago or Hurricanes Katrina, Sandy, Harvey, Irma and Maria, all of these disasters share something key: they reveal the ways in which class, race and zip code predetermine who was living on the edge to start with, who gets hurt the worst, who recovers and bounces back—and who doesn’t. In COOKED, Helfand challenges herself and others to truly see and respond to the invisible man-made disasters taking place in towns and cities across the country before the next natural disaster hits.
“COOKED is an adaptation of HEAT WAVE: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago (2002) by Eric Klinenberg.” SMUUF thanks Interfaith Power & Light and Bullfrog Films for making this film accessible for community screenings.
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