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'Because We Eat' Opening Reception

Thursday, October 30, 2025 from 5:30 PM to 8 PM
University of San Diego Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice
Free

"Because We Eat." With this simple truth, artist Antonia Davis challenges us to confront the human cost of the food we consume in a new mixed-media installation. Join us for the opening night and a special program designed to explore our connection to the harvest and the farmworkers who sustain it.

5:30 p.m. | Special Pre-Opening Film 

View the moving documentary, "The Harvest/La Cosecha" (75 minutes), that follows the arduous journey of three children from the scorching heat of Texas' onion fields to the winter snows of the Michigan apple orchards and back south to the humidity of Florida's tomato fields to follow the harvest.

6:45 p.m. | Installation Premiere & Artist Reception

After the documentary, join us in viewing Davis's art installation, "Because We Eat." This event will feature the installation, an opportunity to meet the artist, and a welcoming atmosphere with light refreshments and music in the rotunda.

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University of San Diego Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice

5555 Marian Way
University of San Diego
San Diego, California 92110
619-260-7509
ipj@sandiego.edu

Through education, research and peacemaking activities, the Institute offers programs that advance scholarship and practice in conflict resolution and human rights. The Institute for Peace & Justice at the University of San Diego draws upon Catholic social teaching that sees peace as inseparable from justice and acts to prevent and resolve conflicts that threaten local, national and international peace. History: The Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice (IPJ) at the University of San Diego was founded in 2000 with a generous gift from San Diego philanthropist Joan B. Kroc, who stipulated that the Institute not only "talk about peace, but make peace." Beginning with a Dedicatory Conference in 2001, which was attended by former Presidents Jimmy Carter of the United States and Oscar Arias Sanchez of Costa Rica, along with many other peace-builders and representatives from four conflict-affected states, the IPJ has worked to bring together the powerful and the marginalized to build strong peacebuilding coalitions.

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