3rd Annual International Film & Food Festival - Sunday, November 20
Posted by Marty Cohn
on Nov 07, 2011
Building
Hope, One House at a Time
The Brattleboro Rotary Club is raising money to build another adobe brick home for families who are among the poorest of
the poor in San Miguel de Allende and the surrounding areas in the state of
Guanajuato, Mexico.
On Sunday, November 20, 2011, the Brattleboro Rotary Club will be
sponsoring the third annual “International Film & Food Festival,” with
proceeds benefiting Casita Linda (which means
"pretty little house"), a Mexican non-profit organization that
builds adobe brick homes for families
Making their New England
premiere, six short Mexican films followed by the feature film Una Pared Para Cecilia (A Wall for Cecillia) will be shown at the Latchis Theatre from 4PM
to 6:30PM. Then, a tasting of Mexican
cuisine will be served at the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center from 6:30 to
8:30PM.
Tickets to the International Film
& Food Festival, which can be purchased at Vermont Artisan Designs & Gallery 2 (106 Main Street, Brattleboro), cost $25 each.
Tickets to the films only cost $10 each.
Casita
Linda has provided over 60 homes for poor but hard-working and intact families
outside of San Miguel, and continues building them at the rate of at least 8 per
year. They have worked with the Rhode Island School of Design to develop
innovative, inexpensive building techniques which are scalable
and transferable to other locations.
Last year’s
festival raised $9,000 and enabled the club to not only build one home but also
start another one.