“A Place at the Table,” a documentary focusing on hunger in the U.S., will open at the Magic Lantern on Friday, which happens to also be World Water Day.
The documentary will play for a week, unless attendance demands it stays in the theater longer.
According to the film's website, 50 million people in the U.S. — one in four children — don’t know where their next meal is coming from. “Ultimately, … (it) shows us how hunger poses serious economic, social and cultural implications for our nation, and that it could be solved once and for all, if the American public decides — as they have in the past — that making healthy food available and affordable is in the best interest of us all.”
Catholic Charities USA has urged Catholics to tie in the documentary into their Lenten practice of fasting.
For ticket information call (509) 209-2383.
