Join the Future Generations Appalachian Program as they host the Sundance Film Festival’s ‘King Coal’ production team, University faculty, current students, and members of the WV Mushroom Club for a community conversation. Future Generations University has a mission to promote research, learning, and action toward inclusive and sustainable community change worldwide, and the Appalachian Program works to accomplish this mission in Central Appalachia. To do so, the Appalachian Program has to reckon with ongoing bumpy economic transition away from coal. Coal mining in Appalachia has a long a complicated history. In some Appalachian communities, it hasn’t been just a job or economic sector; it’s been something like a way of life. Union halls have been communal gathering places.
The film King Coal, which will be shown at the Warner Drive-In in Franklin on September 23rd, paints a beautiful picture of this complicated time in coal country. For this webinar, we will be joined by one of the film’s creative team, members of the WV Mushroom Club, and the Director of the Appalachian Program. The Appalachian program promotes agroforestry because we see it as a living Appalachian tradition which is of increasing importance economically, socially, and emotionally during this time of transition. The celebration of wild mushrooms & mushrooming by the WV Mushroom Club is an excellent example of the type of cultural tradition the Appalachian Program sees as essential
21 сен 2023
