Birth Story: Ina May Gaskin & the Farm Midwives

"Birth Chattanooga" and "My Smart Hands with Adele" are pleased to announce a special one night only screening of the award-winning BIRTH STORY: Ina May Gaskin and The Farm Midwives.

BIRTH STORY: Ina May Gaskin and The Farm Midwives is a feature-length documentary that tells the story of counterculture heroine Ina May Gaskin and her spirited friends, who began delivering each other’s babies in 1970, on a caravan of hippie school buses, headed to a patch of rural Tennessee land. With Ina May as their leader, the women taught themselves midwifery from the ground up, and, with their families, founded an entirely communal, agricultural society called The Farm. They grew their own food, built their own houses, published their own books, and, as word of their social experiment spread, created a model of care for women and babies that changed a generation’s approach to childbirth.

Following the film we will have a short discussion with a panel of invited guests.

For more details and advanced ticket purchases please see our website http://birthstorychattanooga.wordpress.com/