Screen and Sort: SENA Film Premiere + Volunteer Event

  • Saturday, November 21, 2026

    03:00 PM US/Central

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Kanbe's Markets
3119 Terrace Street
Kansas City, MO 64111
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Join us for the world premiere of SENA: A Meal at the Edges of Empire, a new 30-minute documentary from Kansas City filmmakers Nathan Johnson and John Warren Borja Martín Austin.

Filmed in Georgia, Missouri, Washington and Guam, SENA explores the people and places connected by the U.S. food system and invites us to think about how food moves from where it begins to where it ends up.

After the film, we’ll talk with the filmmakers and then head into the Kanbe’s warehouse to sort fresh produce together.

Watch the food system. Talk about it. Then get your hands on one piece of it.

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Volunteer registration is capped at 60 participants to ensure we have the space and resources needed for a great experience. Select the Film Premiere + Produce Sorting ticket to reserve your spot.

Prefer to just watch the film? Select the Film Premiere — Screening Only ticket instead.

3:00 p.m. | Screening *Please Arrive Early
3:30 p.m. | Filmmaker conversation
4:00–6:00 p.m. | Volunteer produce sorting
** Please note our Volunteer a
ge requirement: Volunteers must be at least 11 years old to participate in produce sorting.



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A note from Co-director of Sena, John:
 
We love this film, and we hope it moves you.
 
Nathan and I made it to be seen in community. We did not make it for streaming or for watching it in isolation. It was made for you, to be seen with others.
 
Sena became more and more personal to me throughout the course of its production. I’ve been making documentary films for several years now, but Sena is the first film that felt like a full expression of me as a filmmaker and as person with Indigenous ancestry.
 
Without the encouragement of our partners at the Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders (SAFSF) to lean more into artistic expression, and without the trust and creative direction of my friend and Co-Director Nathan Johnson, this film would not exist in its current form or at all.
 
Sena is artful, storyful, and useful. Now we get to see it together. It’s important to me that you to see it. 
 
Come enjoy this film, then get to work in the Kanbe’s warehouse right beside me and others who celebrate independent films, who enjoy learning about complex systems (like our food system), and who understand the value of feeling tethered to one another.

 

  • Saturday, November 21, 2026

    03:00 PM US/Central

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    Saturday, November 21, 2026

    06:00 PM US/Central

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Kanbe's Markets
3119 Terrace Street
Kansas City, MO 64111
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