An award winning documentary, “Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story”, will be shown across 13 locations in Ireland, as part of Stop Food Waste Week taking place January 22nd to 28th.
Just Eat It, by Grant Baldwin and Jenny Rustemeyer, sees filmmakers and food lovers Jen and Grant dive into the issue of food waste, at the farm level, across the food chain, and all the way to the back of their own fridge.
After catching a glimpse of the amount of good food that is wasted each year in North America, they pledge to quit grocery shopping and survive only on discarded food. What they find is a truly shocking insight into the global food system that we are all part of.
While the film is based in North America, it aims to raise awareness on this global environmental dilemma affecting us all.
The 13 locations nationwide are as follows:
| County | Venue | Date | Time | Contact No. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mayo | Arás Inis Gluaire Church St Belmullet |
Monday 22nd Jan |
7.30 pm | 097 81079 |
| Gaillimh | Seanscoil Salearna Aillle Indreabhán |
Monday 22nd Jan |
8.15 pm | 091 593185 |
| Donegal | Abbey Arts Centre St. Ann’s Church Lana an Teampaill Ballyshannon |
Monday 22nd Jan |
8.30 pm | 071 9851375 |
| Cork | Triskel Arts Centre Tobin St. Cork City |
Tuesday 23rd Jan |
6.15 pm | 021 4272022 |
| Kilkenny | The Set Theatre Langton House Hotel 69 John St. |
Tuesday 23rd Jan |
7.30 pm | 056 7721728 |
| Limerick | Millennium Theatre, Limerick Institute of Technology, Moylish |
Tuesday 23rd Jan |
8 pm | 061 293100 Free entry with donations to St. Vincent de Paul |
| Kerry | Phoenix Cinema Dykegate St. Dingle |
Wednesday 24th Jan |
6.30 pm | 066 9151222 |
| Leitrim | The Dock Theatre St. George’s Terrace Townparks Carrick On Shannon |
Thursday 25th Jan |
7.30 pm | 071 9650828 |
| Meath | Solstice Arts Centre Railway St. Navan |
Thursday 25th Jan |
7.30 pm | 049 9092300 |
| Louth | An Táin Arts Centre Crowe St. Townparks Dundalk |
Tuesday 23rd Jan |
8 pm | 042 9329281 |
| Offaly | Birr Theatre Oxmantownhall Birr |
Thursday 25th Jan |
8 pm | 057 9122893 |
| Wexford | Wexford Arts Centre Cornmarket Ferrybank South |
Thursday 25th Jan |
8 pm | 053 9123764 |
| Dublin | IFI 6 Eustace Street Temple Bar Dublin |
Saturday 27th Jan |
10:30 am | Tickets available at event only. |
Tickets are €5 and can be pre-booked via the number provided for each screening location. All proceeds will be donated to The Society of St. Vincent de Paul.
The film screenings form part of Stop Food Waste Week which aims to promote the message “Food – Make the Most of it”. This social media based campaign will focus on the main foods commonly thrown away, and how to make the most of them. Throughout the week Stop Food Waste will provide tips and advice on how to store and cook various food, and have developed a handy resource, the ‘A – Z of Food’.
For further information on the “Food – Make the Most of it” campaign contact Stop Food Waste at [email protected].
For further information on the Just Eat It screenings contact Éanna de Buis via [email protected] or, on 086 3452087.
