Lunchtime event: 1:30-2:30 p.m. (bring your lunch and listen…)
Professor Antwi Akom discusses what the modern world can learn from the indigenous world to combat climate change and describes his work building a youth-driven climate justice movement that uses technological innovations at the grassroots level to cultivate community, heal divisions and develop joint movement building strategies.
Introduced by director Toby McLeod – At 8:55 PM
We will get to see the first two installments in this four-part film series about indigenous cultures fighting to protect their sacred lands for future generations. Episode 1, “Pilgrims and Tourists” tracks Russian shamans and a northern California tribe as they each confront massive government projects. Episode 2, “Profit and Loss” highlights resistance to destructive extraction projects in Papua New Guinea and in Alberta, Canada’s Tar Sands.
Introduced by director Gay Dillingham – Starts at 8:45 PM
Gay Dillingham offers a short clip from this nearly finished film that captured one last intimate conversation between these two bigger-than-life figures just a few months before Leary’s death, as they pondered life, drugs, and the biggest mystery of all: death. It’s a deeply touching portrait of two very complex, controversial characters whose epic friendship helped shape a generation.
Introduced by directors Katie Galloway and Kelly Duane de la Vega
This extraordinary, multiple award-winning film shows us how two boyhood friends from Midland, Texas wound up arrested on terrorism charges at the 2008 Republican National Convention. A dramatic story of idealism, loyalty, crime and betrayal, Better This World goes to the dark heart of the War on Terror and its impact on civil liberties and political dissent in post-9/11 America.
Directed by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee and Gayatri Roshan
Introduced by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
Elemental tells the remarkable story of three individuals on three separate continents working in radically different contexts but united by their deep connection with nature and driven to confront some of the most pressing environmental challenges of our time. It highlights: water activist Rajendra Singh’s struggle to resuscitate the desperately polluted Ganges river; young Denè mother Eriel Deranger’s “David and Goliath” struggle against the world’s largest industrial development, Canada’s Tar Sands; and biomimicry inventor and entrepreneur Jay Harman’s search for investors willing to risk millions to back his conviction that nature’s own systems hold the key to our world’s ecological problems.
Introduced by director Deborah Koons Garcia
Garcia's follow-up to The Future of Food examines the human relationship with soil, the use and abuse of soil in agriculture, deforestation and development, and the latest scientific research on soil’s potential to help address climate change. Filmed on four continents, Symphony of the Soil reveals that if we want healthy plants that result in healthy humans living on a healthy planet, we have to start at the roots, with healthy soil.
Caroline Casey with guest Richard Tarnas: Change the Metaphor – Change the Culture! Calling All Public Dreamers 8:44pm – 9:45pm. The Visionary Activist Show radio host and stand-up astrologer invokes the “Green Fire of Reverent Indigenuity Rising from the Rubble — that we be agents of responsive cool in a hot reactive world.” Caroline welcomes long-time ally Richard Tarnas, author of the acclaimed book “Cosmos and Psyche” together animating the astro*mytho guiding meta-story that we may form a collaborative alliance with the desirable future. The event will be filmed for the motion picture “Startracks.”
This session is included with all Bioneers registrants including; 1, 2, and 3 day tickets as well as half day tickets. If you would like to attend Caroline Casey's session and have not registered for one of the Bioneers passes you may indenpentenly register for this session here: https://www.regonline.com/casey2013
Hosted by: Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, Tesuque Pueblo Farm, Richmond Grows Seed Lending Library, Living Seed Company, and Sustainable Seed Company.
