INDOOR PUBLIC MARKET (10:00am-3:00pm)
Explore 60+ vendors from across the Columbia Basin. Sip, sample and shop local while discovering producers and makers you won’t find at your regular farmers market.
BITE-SIZED: A SHORT FILMS SHOWCASE (11:00am-12:50pm)
This free event, coinciding with the Indoor Public Market, brings together powerful stories where food becomes a lens into community, culture, and resilience. From a haunting meditation on industrial farming, to the public film premiere celebrating our local food co-op’s 50th anniversary, to intimate looks at honey production and grassroots food justice, this cinematic tasting menu celebrates the connections that bring us together around the table. Filmmakers Jonathan Ramos and Jon Steinman in attendance.
THE FILMS
A Nation's Table - Anita Stewart & The Food Day Canada Story (2024, Canada) - Explores Anita Stewart’s life of food activism and her efforts to uncover untold stories of Canadian cuisine.
More Than a Grocery Store (Kootenay Co-op 50th Anniversary Film) (2025, Canada)
Valley Pride (2023, Austria/Germany) - A no-narration haunting portrayal of the exploitation of the most productive agricultural valley feeding Canadians and Americans.
Give and Take (2021, USA) - An inside look at the community fridge movement in New York City during the COVID-19 pandemic
Women of the Earth: How this Indigenous Farmer is Solving Food Insecurity (2023, USA) - As climate chaos increases around the world, Michelle Week, a farmer outside of Portland, Oregon is drawing on her Sinixt indigenous knowledge to adapt her farm to the changing seasons.
Deconstructing Dinner: Honey (2013, Canada) - There are many options of honey to choose from but consumers might want to question if what’s on the label, is what’s really in the jar!
TICKETS: Free (films seating is first come basis)
MORE SATURDAY EVENTS...
YOUNG FARMERS & DIVERSITY ON FILM (1:00pm-3:00pm) -
https://www.facebook.com/events/2683565551989281
LOCAL IS SWEET (3:00pm-6:00pm) -
https://www.facebook.com/events/668375452560496
SOIL & SOUL (7:00pm-9:15pm) -
https://www.facebook.com/events/1827167214553487
Learn more at
https://basinfood.ca/ and
https://basinfood.ca/film-fest
You may also like the following events from Basin Food:
- Next month, 6th November, 06:00 pm, BRINE & DINE - Oysters, Films and Ferments Party in Nelson
- Next month, 7th November, 09:00 pm, FOOD IS SACRED in Nelson
- Next month, 8th November, 01:00 pm, YOUNG FARMERS & DIVERSITY ON FILM (+ Young Farmer Dialogue) in Nelson
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