Wed., April 17th, 7pm, $8: at the Palm in SLO
OCCUPY LOVE with discussion afterwards. (with over 500 hits so far!)
Details & Trailer:
http://bit.ly/XKHcRUJoin acclaimed director Velcrow Ripper (Scared Sacred, Fierce Light) on a journey deep inside the revolution of the heart that is erupting around the planet, as he asks the question, “How could the crisis we are facing become a love story?”
Occupy Love explores the growing realization that the dominant system of power is failing to provide us with health, happiness or meaning. The old paradigm that concentrates wealth, founded on the greed of the few, is causing economic and ecological collapse. The resulting crisis has become the catalyst for a profound awakening: millions of people are deciding that enough is enough – the time has come to create a new world, a world that works for all life.
The film connects the dots in this era of rapidly evolving social change, featuring captivating insider scenes from the Egyptian Revolution, the Indignado uprising in Spain, Occupy Wall Street in New York, Indigenous activists at the Alberta Tar Sands, the climate justice movement, and beyond. Woven throughout the action oriented backbone of the film is a deep exploration of public love, and compelling stories of an emerging new paradigm. It features some of the world’s key visionaries on alternative systems of economics, sustainability, and empathy, including Penny Livingston, Drew Derringer, Charles Eisenstein, James O'Dea, Elisabet Sahtouris, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Clayton Thomas-Muller, Bill McKibben, Tom Goldtooth, Roshi Joan Halifax, Amr Adel, Colin Beavan, Naomi Klein, Jeremy Rifkin, Rebecca Solnit, Rupert Sheldrake and others...
Review: Occupy Love is a moving, transformative, heartfelt film, featuring Ripper’s signature stunning visuals and rich soundscapes. A powerful cinematic experience that will leave audiences inspired.
For press, articles, interviews, images, visit here:
http://occupylove.org/articles/Friday April 19th, 7pm
SHIFT CHANGE (PREMIERE!!!!) Film on Employee Ownership / Worker Coops at SLO Grange Hall
Details:
http://www.hopedance.org/events/icalrepeat.detail/2013/04/19/286Facebook Invite Page :
https://www.facebook.com/events/527162887322383Saturday, April 20th, 7pm
OCCUPY LOVE in Cambria
Details & Trailer:
http://www.hopedance.org/events/icalrepeat.detail/2013/04/20/291Sunday, April 21: EARTH DAY at El Chorro Park
Details:
http://earthdayalliance.com/Tues., April 23rd, 7pm, $6: at the Palm in SLO
FREEDOM (a solution to America’s oil addiction) with Biodiesel Q&A with Amber Hancock of American Biodiesal's Buyers Club
Details & Trailer:
http://bit.ly/161GcfSFacebook Invite Page:
https://www.facebook.com/events/538697929514734/ “FREEDOM makes a completely compelling case that by converting our dependence on oil to a literally home grown source of energy we achieve several goals. First we improve our economy by spending energy dollars here, second we create more jobs, third we base our energy needs on a renewable resource (corn and biomass), fourth we reduce our impact on the environment.” Discussion afterwards about biodiesal and others alternative resources. For more details and images:
http://thefreedomfilm.com/Thursday, April 25th
THERE'S HOPE FOR CONGRESS, Steynberg Gallery 7-9pm FREE
Stories and Solutions Direct from Washington DC!
Details, Flyer :
http://www.hopedance.org/events/icalrepeat.detail/2013/04/25/293Friday, April 26th, 7pm
SHIFT CHANGE (Film on Employee Ownership / Worker Coops) at the Atascadero Grange with discussion afterwards, cosponsored by The Artery
Details and Trailer:
http://www.hopedance.org/events/icalrepeat.detail/2013/04/26/287Facebook Invite Page :
https://www.facebook.com/events/527162887322383Sat., April 27 Four Elements Farm Party
Plant SaleDetails:
http://www.hopedance.org/events/icalrepeat.detail/2013/04/27/279Permaculture Design Course begins:
http://www.hopedance.org/events/icalrepeat.detail/2013/04/27/282Getting Out of Our Heads and into our Hearts (playshop with Bob Banner, 10am-1pm)
Details:
http://www.hopedance.org/events/icalrepeat.detail/2013/04/27/298CCHE Big Bash at SLO Creek Farm 2-6pm
Details:
http://cche.timebanks.org/events/all-county-cche-bash-birthday-partyOCEAN FRONTIERS film in Cambria 7pm with conversation afterwards
Details and Trailer:
http://www.hopedance.org/events/icalrepeat.detail/2013/04/27/290Tues., April 30th, 7pm, $10 : at the Palm in SLO
A FIERCE GREEN FIRE with Andrew Christie, (Sierra Club); Pat Veesart, (California Coastal Commission); and Sue Harvey, (North County Watch)... for discussion after the film.
Details & Trailer:
http://bit.ly/11Uz0Sh (over 250 hits so far!)
A FIERCE GREEN FIRE: The Battle for a Living Planet is the first big-picture exploration of the environmental movement – grassroots and global activism spanning fifty years from conservation to climate change. Directed and written by Mark Kitchell, Academy Award-nominated director of Berkeley in the Sixties, and narrated by Robert Redford, Ashley Judd, Van Jones, Isabel Allende and Meryl Streep, the film premiered at Sundance Film Festival 2012, has won acclaim at festivals around the world, and in 2013 begins theatrical release as well as educational distribution and use by environmental groups and grassroots activists.
Inspired by the book of the same name by Philip Shabecoff and informed by advisors like Edward O. Wilson, A FIERCE GREEN FIRE chronicles the largest movement of the 20th century and one of the keys to the 21st. It brings together all the major parts of environmentalism and connects them. It focuses on activism, people fighting to save their homes, their lives, the future – and succeeding against all odds. For images, more details, reviews:
http://www.afiercegreenfire.com/For all the above events, they are all at the HopeDance calendar:
http://www.hopedance.org/events/month.calendar/2013/04/27/-
