FOOD: Learn all about the upsurge of farmers, cooks, gardeners, and activists who are taking back the food system with inspiring ideas at CUESA Panel: Faces of the New Food Movement: Tales of Food Rebels and Farming Pioneers, featuring colorful tales about local doers from author Mark Winne (Food Rebels, Guerrilla Gardeners, and Smart Cookin’ Mamas: Fighting Back in an Age of Industrial Agriculture) and a stunning slide show of farmer portraits by Anne Hamersky (Farm Together Now: A Portrait of People, Places and Ideas for a New Food Movement). RSVP here.
6:30 p.m. // Port Commission Hearing Room (One Ferry Building, The Embarcadero) // free
FILM: A group of award-winning Chinese Canadian filmmakers answer the question, “What is your Chinatown?” through film at SFIAAFF's Suite Suite Chinatown, a collaboratively produced, multi-genre cinematic vision of Chinatown. There will be a live performance by local musician Jack Tung and others, and the filmmakers will be in attendance.
7 p.m. // Viz Cinema (New People, 1746 Post Street) // $11-12
LECTURE: The Berkeley Center for New Media presents as part of its Art, Technology and Culture Colloquium series, Fashioning Apollo : Spacesuits, Cities, and How to Dress for Tomorrow, a lecture by architect and urbanist Nicholas de Monchaux who will talk about the distinctions between natural and man-made complexity and teach us "to see the future as a set of possibilities rather than a scripted scenario."
7:30 p.m. // Banatao Auditorium (Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley) // free