Join Living Green Barrie for a night all about Climate Action. We will be showing the visually stunning film, Metamorphosis, followed by a discussion lead by Michael Speers of the LEAP, Barrie!
The Film- Metamorphosis.
“A poem for the planet, Nova Ami and Velcrow Ripper’s film Metamorphosis takes the pulse of our Earth and bears witness to a moment of profound change: the loss of one world, and the birth of another.
Metamorphosis captures the true scale of the global environmental crisis. Forest fires consume communities, species vanish, and entire ecosystems collapse. Economic growth, tied to increased speed of resource extraction, has created a machine with the capacity to destroy all life.
But this crisis is also an opportunity for transformation.
Through a tidal flow of stunning images, Metamorphosis carves a path from the present to the future, and offers a bold new vision for humanity and the world.
In Milan, architects design vertical forests, urban towers covered with trees and bushes that reduce CO2, produce oxygen, and give new life to the city. In Phoenix, Arizona, swimming pools are repurposed into self-sustaining gardens, lush with plants and fish that generate food for people. In LA, installing solar panels in underserved neighbourhoods provides cleaner energy to families who normally would not be able to access it.
Woven through these and other stories of creativity and reinvention from artists, scientists, thinkers, and young children are creative, systemic solutions for our planet, and for our communities as well.
From the deep ecologic connection that humans share with each other, a radical form of hope emerges, vibrant and alive, like a chrysalis splitting open to reveal some new thing ready to take flight. Metamorphosis cinematically delves into how humanity is being transformed in new ways by the environmental crises we have created.”
For more information, visit the Facebook Event Page
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/248189180
- Official SelectionSanta Barbara International Film Festival – 2018
- Official SelectionDOXA Documentary Film Festival 2018
- Official SelectionDOCLANDS 2018
- Official SelectionEdinburgh International Film Festival 2018
- Official SelectionShanghai International Film Festival 2018
- Official SelectionFIN Atlantic International Film Festival 2018
- Official SelectionCrossroads Festival for Documentary Film and Discourse Graz/Austria 2018
The Speaker
We are excited to host guest speaker Michael Speers, of The LEAP, Barrie, to lead a discussion on climate change and the Green New Deal. If you would like learn more about The LEAP, visit their website: https://theleap.org/
Michael Speers lives in Barrie with his wife and three children. He was motivated to become a community activist because he realized that bold action was needed in order to leave a better world for his son and daughters.
Currently a communications professional, he is a former journalist in Barrie and Toronto, and spent three years as a political staffer at Queen’s Park. He is active in The Leap Barrie, the Fight for $15 and Fairness movement and the New Democratic Party.
Admission is $5 cash at the door, or tickets are available on Eventbrite. Don’t forget to BYO Bowl for popcorn to keep this a waste-free event!