Workshop

Works for All: Film & Talk

Get inspired with this film about worker-owner cooperatives, and learn from the filmmakers and local co-op businesses.

Whidbey filmmakers Mark Dworkin and Melissa Young visited Co-op Cincy, an inspiring network of worker-owned cooperatives in Cincinnati creating a regional economy that works for all. With significant leadership from women and people of color, members work in many sectors, including farming, food distribution, childcare, t-shirt printing, home weatherization, and more. What would it take for your business to become a cooperative? How could you join with others to create a new cooperative business here on Whidbey?

Kathie Rivas of Heartsong Home Care Cooperative and Shawn Serdahl of A1 DesignBuild will be available to share their experiences as founding members of their worker-owned cooperatives. More about the film, preview, and reviews can be found on bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/wfa.html. Click here to register.

Thursday, October 15 , 12-2pm
Front Room, 2nd Floor of the Bayview Cash Store, 5603 Bayview Road

Filmmakers Young and Dworkin have produced documentaries together for over 30 years, across the U.S., Central and South America and Europe. They are known for offering vivid images, and the perspectives of a broad range of people.

Their films have screened in numerous film festivals. Six of their documentaries have aired nationally on PBS, including a previous work on worker cooperatives called SHIFT CHANGE.