press release:
For the second year, Chief Sealth International High School is hosting World Water Week, aimed at highlighting the relationship between members of our local community and water both in the Seattle area and around the world.

This year’s event, “Feeding the Future,” will emphasize the connections between water and food security. Highlights of the week include:

· Tuesday, March 20: a 3-on-3 basketball tournament that will raise awareness of and generate support for famine relief in East Africa. Starts at 4:30 p.m. at Southwest Community Center.

· Wednesday, March 21: an all-school assembly on food justice issues with the Food Education Empowerment and Sustainability Team (FEEST), a youth-run program out of Youngstown Cultural Arts Center.

· Thursday March 22: an all-school lesson on global food security and a multicultural evening program for families with food and performances from around the world.

· Friday, March 23: a day-long teach-in. Students will attend four workshops of their choice, concluding with an all-school closing ceremony. Students will also participate in a youth-led Food Walk, simulating the arduous journey that thousands of East Africans take every day in order to reach safety in refugee camps. Among the March 23 workshop speakers and topics:

o Funny Food: Laugh with comedian Yoram Bauman as he talks about the relationship between money and the environment. Bauman is an economist who now teaches environmental economy at the University of Washington. He considers himself the world’s first and only stand-up economist.

o Chris Jordan: Take a close look at photographer Chris Jordan’s latest work, which illustrates how our mass consumption surfaces in an astonishing place: inside the stomachs of thousands of dead baby albatrosses. The nesting chicks are fed lethal quantities of plastic by their parents, who mistake the floating trash for food as they forage over the vast polluted Pacific Ocean.

o Chief Sealth International Student Stories: Listen to the true and thought provoking stories of fellow Chief Sealth International students who have endured the devastation of war, famine, drought, and life in refugee camps. These amazing students are willing to give up these stories to help you to understand the experiences of thousands of people in East Africa right now.

o Dumpster Diving: David Giles has a goal to raise awareness about the mass amount of edible food that gets thrown out every day. His strategy of education, discovery and fun is Dumpster Diving. Every dive tells him a little bit more about how we eat, and what we throw away. Find out the average amount of edible food there is in every dumpster, as listen to what prompted him to become a dumpster diving man.

The 2012 World Water Week Festival is being organized by a team of Chief Sealth students and teacher Noah Zeichner in collaboration with the Chief Sealth faculty and several local organizations. The inaugural festival, held in 2011, was created after the Bezos Family Foundation invited Zeichner and Chief Sealth student Molly Freed to attend the Aspen Ideas Festival as Bezos Scholars. At the festival, scholars were directed to create their own local Ideas Festival, and Freed and Zeichner developed the idea of World Water Week.