Join us for the first lecture of our new lecture series, which addresses the #MeToo movement in the restaurant industry. Sexism, inequality in management and leadership, and sexual assault and harassment frequently occur in the male-dominated restaurant industry. The #MeToo movement has been an opportunity to address this situation. Restaurant industry insiders Beth Gruitch, a partner in the Crafted Concepts restaurant group, and Sara Brito, Co-Founder of the Good Food Media Network and publisher of the Good Food 100 Restaurants™, will share their insights on this topic.

Four local visual artists agreed to create art inspired by Tazzeka. We will exhibit their work before the Tazzeka screening.

Small Bites: Short Films for Food People is a program of short films that will include our Colorado Student Film Contest winning films, several other captivating short films, and El Jardin, an episode in the Emmy Award-winning The Migrant Kitchen series from KCET that profiles visiting speaker Chef Claudette Zepeda.

Chef Claudette Zepeda will share her insights on how Mexican food cultures are interwoven with food cultures throughout the world.

Featuring a Mexican feast with an assortment of bites of regional Mexican food, a film about Diana Kennedy (often called the Julia Child of Mexico), and an interview of Top Chef Denver competitor and James Beard semi-finalist Chef Claudette Zepeda, formerly of San Diego restaurant El Jardin, by former Eater Denver editor Andra Zeppelin, our tribute to Diana Kennedy is a must-see about a culinary legend.

Join us for a late-night celebration of culinary legend Diana Kennedy and her substantial contribution to our culinary culture. Come lift a glass to Diana Kennedy’s extensive research into Mexican regional cuisines and the nine cookbooks that she wrote about it. While this is a free event, registration is required.

Tim Brod of Highland Honey will speak about how to attract native pollinators like bumble bees and squash bees to the home garden and farm to increase fecundity and pollinate plants that require pollinators other than honey bees. He will also explain how to maintain and sustain those pollinators. A Q&A session will follow the talk.

Members of organizations and businesses dedicated to the well-being of pollinators will provide information on pollinators, their mission, and the work that they are doing on behalf of pollinators. Participating nonprofits and business include the City of Boulder’s Boulder Pollinator Garden Project, Highland Honey, Growing Gardens, and People and Pollinators Action Network.

This special four-course dinner is the last event of our Festival. It will take place after our screening of The Biggest Little Farm at which Eric and Jill Skokan will recount the journey of their own biggest little farm, the Black Cat Farm.