This event will offer more delicious food and family fun, just like our August Austin Eats Movie At The Farm. Check out this video recap of the event.

Video Credit: Jacob Badagliacco

Features a screening of two short films: "Street Food: New Orleans" and "Can Food Be Political?"

All Ages!

For people who live, work, volunteer, go to school, or worship in the Austin community on the West Side of Chicago.

Wear your favorite hoodie! This will be an outdoor event, weather permitting. Rain or Shine! (We'll move indoors to PCC's beautiful new facility if it rains).

Doors open at 5:30 p.m. for dinner bites from three local Austin chefs, cider, s’mores, garden tours, and tabling activities by community organizations focused on health, food, culinary arts and small business resources. 

You'll be able to taste 8 kinds of Sweet Potato Pie cooked up by Westside home and professional chefs during the Best of the West Sweet Potato Pie Contest.

We’ll watch two short films with popcorn. After the film, hear a panel on “Supporting Austin: Building Local Food Businesses”

Then, settle in and watch youth finalists ages 14-25 perform “Verses & Vittles: A Lyrical Slam Experience with a Taste of Culinary & Wellness” 

The night will end with a hoodie raffle and announcement of all contest winners!

Verses & Vittles Lyrical Slam

NEW! For youth ages 14-25. CASH PRIZES! Watch this 11-min film: “Can Food Be Political?” Then create a 2-min rap, spoken word, lyric or poem and enter the “Verses & Vittles: A Lyrical Slam Experience with a Taste of Culinary & Wellness”.

Deadline for submissions to the contest have been EXTENDED till Fri 9/26!

Volunteering

Want to pop popcorn? Help the chefs participating in the Sweet Potato Pie Cook Off? Take photos? There are many ways to help out…and if you’re not from the Austin community, it’s the best way to be a part of the evening. Learn about all the fun roles here:

About Our Film

One Earth, and its Austin Eats project partners, invite you to grab a friend, and join us for a FREE Austin Eats Hoodies & Harvest Movie Night at PCC Austin Family Health Center, featuring the film “Street Food: New Orleans.”

Amid NOLA's mix of po'boys, snoballs and crawfish, Ms. Linda Green's beloved yakamein bubbles with inspiration, even in the face of tragedy. On this 20th anniversary of the Katrina Hurricane, this film celebrates the most beloved bites on New Orleans streets, served up by small entrepreneurs and families who are building not only rich lives, but family legacies.

As part of Austin Eats' efforts to bring healthy food resources and lively discussion around local food access to the Austin community, this event is intended for those who live, work, pray, study, or volunteer in Austin.

Austin Eats is a collaborative working to rewrite the narrative around food in Chicago's Austin community. By synergizing organizations already promoting healthier food choices through grocery access, culinary entrepreneurship, food education, community gardens, and urban farms, Austin Eats will recreate Austin’s food access ecosystem. One Earth Collective is a member of Austin Eats.