Rick Turner From: Sent: To: Subject: The Meaningful Movies Project <info@meaningfulmovies.org> Wednesday, May 06, 2015 9:15 AM info@meaningfulmovies.org Film: "INHABIT: A Permaculture Perspective" - Fri, May 8th, 7PM - With Guests Jessi Bloom and Dave Boehnlein, Having trouble viewing this email? Click here Hi, just a reminder that you're receiving this email because you have expressed an interest in Meaningful Movies. (To be sure these land in your inbox, please add info@meaningfulmovies.org your address book.) Thanks! You may unsubscribe if you no longer wish to receive our emails. Social Justice Documentary Films and Community Discussion. Admission by donation, to help cover expenses....open to the public. Please invite your friends and neighbors & feel free to forward widely. SEE THE FULL SCHEDULE: HERE...So what are "Meaningful Movies"? Find out more HERE. MEANINGFUL MOVIE LOCATIONS AROUND SEATTLE: Beacon Hill Bellevue Edmonds [Soon!] Central District [Soon] Issaquah [New Venue!] Kirkland Greenwood Poulsbo Renton Suquamish Wallingford Upcoming Films In Wallingford: (More Info: www.meaningfulmovies.org) Friday, May 8, 2015, 7:00 PM ( Doors open at 6:30 for A Book Signing, Snacks, and Visiting with your neighbors) 1
Wedgwood West Seattle Woodinville,...and more coming. FOR MORE INFO ON THE MEANINGFUL MOVIES PROJECT, and starting Meaningful Movies in your neighborhood, LOOK HERE WEDGWOOD: Wedgwood Meaningful Movies, Our Lady of the Lake Church, 8900 35th Ave NE Seattle, WA 98115 Films + Discussion on the 2nd Friday of each month. Fri, May 8, 7PM Film: "PAY 2 PLAY" Fri, May 8, 7PM Film: "Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective" Fri, May 15, 7PM Film: "Princess Angeline" EDMONDS: Sno-King Meaningful Movies Edmonds Unitarian Universalist Church, 8109 224 Street SW, Edmonds, Washington 98026 Films + Discussion on the 2nd Saturday of each month. Sat, May 16, 7PM Film: "Return of the River" BEACON HILL: Beacon Hill Meaningful Movies, Garden House, 2336 15th Ave. S., Seattle, 98144; FILM: "INHABIT: A PERMACULTURE PERSPECTIVE" (92 min, Costa Boutsikaris, 2015) With Special Guests: Jessi Bloom and Dave Boehnlein, Authors of the book: Practical Permaculture for Home Landscapes, Your Community, and the Whole Earth INHABIT explores the many environmental issues facing us today and examines solutions currently being applied using the ecological design process called 'Permaculture'. For those familiar, it will be a call to action and a glimpse into what's possible - what kind of projects and solutions are already underway. For those unfamiliar, it will be an introduction to a new way of being and a new way of relating to the Earth. Join us following the film for a Q&A and community conversation with Jessi Bloom & Dave Boehnlein. The book will be for sale and Jessi & Dave will be available to sign. (Event Is Open to the Public. Admission is by Donation.) OUR LOCATION: Wallingford Meaningful Movies 5019 Keystone Place N, Seattle, WA 98103 In Wallingford (located at Directions at www.meaningfulmovies.org Friday, May 15, 2015, 7:00 PM (Doors open at 6:30 to visit with our guests and your neighbors. Snacks) FILM: "PRINCESS ANGELINE" (53 min, Sandy & Yasu Osawa, 2013) With the Filmmakers: Sandy & Yasu Osawa PRINCESS ANGELINE explores the story of the Duwamish people primarily through the life of Princess Angeline, who is buried in Seattle. The first signer of the 1855 Treaty was Chief Seattle, father of Princess Angeline, at a time when Duwamish longhouses flourished in and around Seattle. But in 1865 Indians were ordered out of the city. Princess 2
Films + Discussion on the 3rd Friday of each month. Fri. May 15, 7PM Film: "Bringing It Home" KIRKLAND: Meaningful Movies in Kirkland, Northlake Unitarian Universalist Church, 308 4th Ave S., Kirkland, 98033; Films + Discussion on the 3rd Friday of each month. Fri. May 15, 7PM Film: "Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time" BELLEVUE: Meaningful Movies on the Eastside, St. Margaret's Episcopal Church, 4228 Factoria Blvd SE, Bellevue 98006. Films + Discussion on the 3rd Tuesday of each month.. Tue. May 19, 6:30PM Film: "A Sea of Plastics" & "How To Not Be Ignorant About The World" Fri, May 22, 7PM Film: "Kent State: The Day The War Came Home" RENTON: Sustainable Renton Meaningful Movies; Luther's Table, 419 South 2nd Street, Renton, WA 98057; Films + Discussion on the 4th Tue of each month. Tue. May 26, 7:00 PM Film: "Consumerism and the Limits of the Imagination" ISSAQUAH: Issaquah Meaningful Movies, Blakey Hall, 2550 NE Park Drive, Issaquah, WA Angeline and a few others refused to leave, and we watch the city growing around them, leaving them landless. The past is present as we learn about their continuing struggle for tribal recognition today. Join us for a faciliated discussion with award winning filmmakers Sandy & Yasu Osawa after the screening. Friday, May 22, 2015, 7:00 PM FILM: "KENT STATE: THE DAY THE WAR CAME HOME" (47 min, Chris Triffo, 2000) Kent State University, Ohio, May 4, 1970; 13 seconds, 67 bullets, 9 wounded, 4 dead. Former students and Ohio National Guardsmen reflect on the events of May 1-4, 1970, that led to the shooting at Kent State University. Friday, May 29, 2015, 7:00 PM FILM: "WHITE LIKE ME" (66 min, Scott Morris, 2013) More information coming soon. (Event Is Open to the Public. Admission is by Donation.) Friday, June 5, 2015, 7:00 PM FILM: "PAY 2 PLAY: Democracy's High Stakes" (87 min, John Ennis, 2014) With Representatives from WAmend A humorous odyssey: Driven to make the world a better place for his newborn daughter, John Ennis looks for ways out of our system of pay-to-play 3
98029 Films + Discussion on the 4th Wednesday of each month. Wed, May 27, 7PM Film: "The Great Vacation Squeeze" Fri, May 29, 7PM Film: "White Like Me" WEST SEATTLE: West Seattle Meaningful Movies, The New Highpoint Neighborhood House, 6400 Sylvan Way SW, Seattle, 98126; Films + Discussion on the 1st Saturday of each month. Sat, June 6, 7PM Film: To Be Announced politics that rules America. (In support of Initiative I-735 "Get Big Money Out Of Elections") Friday, June 12, 2015, 7:00 PM FILM: "FINDING HILLYWOOD" (60 min, Chris Towey, Leah Warshawski, 2013) With Filmmaker Leah Warshawski A wonderfully uplifting film, HILLYWOOD is about a blossoming film community in Rwanda that reveals the power of media as a catalyst for cultural healing but also serves as a lesson on Rwandan history. GREENWOOD: Greenwood Meaningful Movies, Greenwood Senior Center, 525 N 85th St, Seattle, 98103; Films + Discussion scheduled quarterly Fri, Jun, 1:00 PM Film: To Be Announced WOODINVILLE: Woodinville Meaningful Movies, Northshore UCC, 18900 168th Ave NE, Woodinville, 98072; Films + Discussion on the 2nd Friday of each month. On Break Film Date & Time To Be Announced THE MEANINGFUL MOVIES NETWORK consists of a growing number of organizations in the Greater Seattle metropolitan area that use social justice documentary film and discussion to educate, support advocacy and build community. These are independently run, community-based venues. For the latest schedule of films, and additional information, please visit us at www.meaningfulmovies.org, or visit us at Facebook: HERE. Thanks! About the Meaningful Movies Project: The Meaningful Movies Project is a non-profit, all-volunteer group that actively encourages and supports communities and organizations in their efforts to organize, educate, advocate and build community around the power of social justice documentary film and conversation. You can read more on the principles that this concept is built on at: https://www.facebook.com/meaningfulmoviesproject/info. With permission, we allow other groups that we work with and who are working within certain guidelines to use the name "Meaningful Movies" under a limited license. More information on this is available at: http://www.meaningfulmovies.org/contacts.html We think the concept of ongoing, locally-based film and discussion groups and events is an amazing idea, and we are available at no charge to assist in any way we can to help communities everywhere start their own Meaningful Movies Groups. If you might be interested in starting your own film/discussion group, please feel free to contact us at: info@meaningfulmovies.org. We are committed to helping groups succeed. Thanks, The Meaningful Movies Team 4
Our goal is to establish this concept throughout the Puget Sound Region, and see it spread into the rest of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. Please join us! THE MEANINGFUL MOVIES PROJECT is a non-profit organization that supports Meaningful Movies and the Meaningful Movies Network. www.meaningfulmovies.org..visit US ON FACEBOOK! The Meaningful Movies Project Website Contact Us See A List of the Past Films We've Shown What Are Meaningful Movies Anyway? Stay Connected The Meaningful Movies Project: www.meaningfulmovies.org Contact us at: info@meaningfulmovies.org...a free ticket on us. Please join us! 5
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