9th Annual Film and Discussion Series: Creating Community Solutions to Our Housing Challenges

Inspired by the unprecedented challenges our global community faced in 2020. The 9th Annual Film & Discussion Series focuses its four monthly programs on local resilience in response to some of these challenges. We will highlight local initiatives that aim to build community resilience in the face of urban food insecurity, housing insecurity, and unhealthy large and small scale agricultural practices. We will look at the creativity of our Hudson Valley communities to create solution-oriented initiatives. The 9th Annual Film & Discussion Series offers a chance to learn how these amazing local programs are making positive changes as well as ways we can make simple changes in our own lives for maximum impact.

Presented by Woodstock Housing Committee and Ulster County’s Housing Task Team, this program highlights 2021 initiatives aimed to address the housing crisis in Woodstock and all other Ulster County communities. With presentations by Evelyn Wright, Deputy County Executive, Susan Goldman, Co-Chair Woodstock Housing Committee, Founder of Family of Woodstock and Upstate Films, Kirk Ritchey, Co-Chair Woodstock Housing Committee, former Chair of Woodstock 2018 Comprehensive Plan.

Woodstock Land Conservancy is a non-profit organization committed to the protection and preservation of the open lands, forests, water resources, scenic areas, and historic sites in Woodstock and the surrounding area.

Woodstock NY Transition is a community organization that works to create a more fulfilling, inspiring, equitable, and socially connected way of life that is based on localized food, sustainable energy sources, resilient local economies, and an enlivened sense of community well-being.

The Woodstock Jewish Congregation is dedicated to the advancement of Jewish ethics, culture, and religion. We strive to enable participants to enrich their lives through Jewish worship, celebration, practice, study, and fellowship. We are also committed to the Torah’s teaching that humans are to be Shomrei Adamah, “guardians of the earth.” We bring this Jewish value into our Family School and worship services, and we strive to incorporate sustainability practices into all of our operations so that we may become a model of environmental stewardship within our congregation and for the larger community.