Calendar of Upcoming Events

For Frances’ pre-lecture reading and to suggest discussion topics, click here.

For more information about Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen by Anna Lappé and Bryant Terry, check out www.eatgrub.org. Event times and locations are subject to change without notice, so please check with the venue or hosting organization to confirm.

For more information about Small Planet Institute services and for information about booking an event, click here

2008 Events:

Sunday, May 18th, 2008
World Future Council Congress
Hamburg, Germany
Frances

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008, 9:00AM
Keynote Speech
16th Annual IFOAM World Congress
Modena, Italy
Frances

Sunday, July 13th, 2008, 4:00PM
Keynote speech and booksigning
SolarFest 2008
Forget-Me-Not Farm, McNamara Road
Tinmouth, VT
Frances

Sunday, July 27th, 2008, 2:00PM
Keynote speech and workshop
Kickapoo Country Fair
Organic Valley National Headquarters
One Organic Way
La Farge, WI
Frances

Friday, September 5th, 2008, time TBA
Visiting Speaker
Albuquerque Academy
Simms Auditorium
6400 Wyoming Boulevard, NE
Albuquerque, NM
Frances

Sunday, September 14th, 2008, time TBA
Keynote speech and booksigning
Northern Arizona Sustainable Living Fair
Fort Tuthill Fairgrounds
Fairgrounds Road
Flagstaff, AZ
Frances

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008, 8:30AM
Keynote speech, booksigning, and workshop
32nd Annual Provender Alliance Educational Conference
Address TBA
Hood River, OR
Frances

Saturday, October 4th, 2008, time TBA
"Living Democracy" speech and panel participation
4th National Conference on Dialogue and Deliberation
Austin Renaissance
9721 Arboretum Blvd
Austin, TX
Frances

Friday, October 17th, 2008, 9:00 AM
Keynote Speech
Natural Products Expo East
Boston Convention & Exhibition Center
415 Summer St.
Boston, MA
Frances

Saturday, October, 25, 2008
E.F. Schumacher Society Lecture
Speech
Great Barrington, MA
Anna



Booking Events...

To inquire about booking Frances Moore Lappé to speak, please contact Jess Wilson by email.

To inquire about booking events with Anna Lappé, contact Abhaya Kaufman by email.

You can see selected speech topics here.

 

 


Read Frances's reflections on 1968, "the year I decided to find out why people were hungry in the world," in AARP the Magazine.

Listen to the May 4th podcast of CBC Sunday Edition featuring the lead interview with Frances on food prices and poverty

Visit Anna's new "Take a Bite out of Climate Change" website.

Hear Anna on WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show, discussing whether higher food prices might mean that we'll eat healthier food. (Nina Planck is a guest as well.)

Read Frances's "Wasn't It Also Obama's 'Democracy Speech'?" on Huffington Post.

Read Anna weighing in on "Some Good News on Food Prices" (NY Times).

Read "The Only Fitting Tribute," Frances's take on the New Deal written for The Nation and found also on CommonDreams.org.

Read "Hanging with Frances Moore Lappé" in the Boston Globe

Read Anna's op-ed in Seattle Post Intelligencer on food and climate change; hear her on Seattle radio

Watch Anna as your guru for fair trade and safe beauty products on Howdini.com

• Thanks to everyone who made our annual fund-raising gala a success! Watch The Invisible Revolution, a film about those your investment helps to support.

Watch Getting a Grip on Money & Politics, Frances' & Anthony's film about the "Best Kept Secret in America!"

Read Anna's blog as she continues the call to Eat Grub!

Read Frances's Getting a Grip blog!

• Frances's first book, Diet for a Small Planet, was chosen among 75 Books by Women whose Words have Changed the World

Read a prepublication version of Frances' 'World Hunger: Roots and Remedies,' from the upcoming Oxford title A Sociology of Food and Nutrition.


Read more about Frankie’s book, Democracy’s Edge

Read “Creating Real Prosperity” by Frances, in Yes! Magazine and AlterNet

Read "Big Apple to go Trans-Fat Free" by Anna in Alternet

Read News from Brazil’s Zero-Hunger Campaign

• Listen to Anna with Ruth Reichl on The Leonard Lopate show.

Stop the Genocide in Darfur

• Listen to Frances on PBS Now

'Time for Progressives to Grow Up' on Common Dreams. Read responses, too.

• Interested in volunteering with SPI? Email us to find out about current volunteer opportunities.

 

Sunday, May 18th, 2008
World Future Council Congress
Hamburg, Germany
Frances

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008, 9:00AM
Keynote Speech
16th Annual IFOAM World Congress
Modena, Italy
Frances

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