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Cooked: Survival by Zip Code

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    When: Thursday 26 November 2020 7:00 pm - Thursday 26 November 2020 8:45 pm

    Admission: Admission Free

    Booking: Booking required

    This event will be held online: https://byretheatre.com/events/cooked-survival-by-zip-code-online-stream/

    Event Information

    Join us for a screening of the film Cooked: Survival by Zip Code by Judith Helfand followed by a Q/A session with the director where we explore climate change from an Arts and Humanities perspective.

    In the summer of 1995, Chicago experienced an unthinkable disaster, when extremely high humidity and a layer of heat-retaining pollution drove the heat index up to more than 126 degrees. Cooked: Survival by Zip Code tells the story of this tragic heatwave, the most traumatic in U.S. history, in which 739 citizens died over the course of just a single week, most of them poor, elderly, and African American.

    When peeled away from the shocking headlines the story reveals the less newsworthy but long-term crisis of pernicious poverty, economic, and social isolation, and racism. Cooked is a story about life, death, and the politics of crisis in an American city that asks the question: Was this a one-time tragedy, or an appalling trend?

    There will also be a live film discussion, in collaboration with Transitions St Andrews and the BAME Student Network. The link to the discussion will be shared at the end of pre-recorded Q&A.

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    Contact Details:

    The Public Engagement with Research Team, University of St Andrews

    Contact Email: standengaged@st-andrews.ac.uk

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About Explorathon ’20

Join us for an online, socially distanced programme of events from 23rd – 29th November 2020 celebrating research from Scotland as part of European Researchers’ Night.

Take part in debates, listen to presentations, try activities at home and much more besides, as we show that research is for all!

This project has received funding from the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 955376.

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