Mad Chickens!

This week at Friday Night at the Meaningful Movies: Mad Chickens!

Witness if you will Gallus Domesticus…the backyard chicken. A mere few pounds of feather, bone, and muscle; a creature regarded by many as a rather humorous, though not so intelligent agent of food production.

And yet make note of a most singular phenomenon now taking shape across suburb and city. From backyard eggs to the family’s new favorite pet, the urban chicken is forging a fresh place in the pecking order of human importance.

Mad City Chickens deftly weaves multiple stories and contextual issues on city chickens and their keepers in a non-linear fashion that one rarely sees in a documentary. From leading experts to urban newbies, experience the humor and heart of what’s fast becoming an international backyard chicken movement.

Mad City Chickens is a sometimes wacky, sometimes serious look at the people who keep urban chickens in their backyards. From chicken experts and authors to a rescued landfill hen or an inexperienced family that decides to take the poultry plunge—and even a mad scientist and giant hen taking to the streets—it’s a humorous and heartfelt trip through the world of backyard chickendom.

Come for the movie, stick around afterwards for Q&A with the filmmakers, Tashai Lovington and Robert Lughai, as well as Seattle Tilth Garden Educator Carey Thornton. Friday, June 12, 7 – 9:30 pm at Keystone Congregational United Church of Christ (5019 Keystone Place N.)

And hats off to the Meaningful Movies copywriter, who maanged to restrain himself from fouling the blurb with lots of chicken puns.