Immersive Summer Gatherings
Film / Talk / Food Series
In collaboration with the Architecture & Design Film Festival
Saturday, August 30
Program Theme: INNOVATION
EVENT LINEUP:
FILM: Beyond Zero
TALK: Bill McKibben
Here Comes The Sun
FOOD: Food Historian Paula Marcoux returns with one meal for all
PROGRAMMING INFORMATION:
3:30 FILM:
Beyond Zero
2020 / 75 min / US
Director: Nathan Havey
“By civilization’s definition I am a captain of industry. By my own definition I am a plunderer of the earth and a legal thief.” After a life-changing epiphany, CEO Ray Anderson embarks on a high-stakes quest to eliminate all negative environmental impacts of his company Interface, the largest carpet tile manufacturer in the world. To succeed, the company must overcome deep skepticism, abandon the status quo, and ignite a new industrial revolution. Beyond Zero offers an inspirational roadmap for how business can reverse climate change.
5:00 TALK:
Directly follows the film: 40 minutes
Bill McKibben: Here Comes The Sun
Author, Educator, Activist, founder of Third Act
Bill McKibben is a contributing writer to The New Yorker, and a founder of Third Act, which organizes people over the age of 60 to work on climate and racial justice. He founded the first global grassroots climate campaign, 350.org, and serves as the Schumann Distinguished Professor in Residence at Middlebury College in Vermont. In 2014 he was awarded the Right Livelihood Prize, sometimes called the ‘alternative Nobel,’ in the Swedish Parliament. He's also won the Gandhi Peace Award, and honorary degrees from 19 colleges and universities. He has written over a dozen books about the environment, including his first, The End of Nature, published in 1989, and his latest book is The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at his Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened.
6 pm Food: Food Historian, Paula Marcoux returns with One Meal For All
Paula Marcoux is a food historian who lives in Plymouth, Massachusetts; she has worked professionally as an archaeologist, cook, and bread-oven builder. She is the food editor of Edible South Shore magazine, writes on food history topics for popular and academic audiences, and consults with museums, film producers, and publishers. She also gives regular workshops on natural leavening, historic baking, and wood-fired cooking. Her web site is www.themagnificentleaven.com.