Come absorb some of the most insightful films, documentaries and commentaries across a wide spectrum of relevant topics of today and tomorrow. UAS Green Movie Night provides a casual space for you to meet others in the local sustainability movement and encourages lively, open discussion. Local organizations working on the current theme participate in a Q/A discussion looking to create collaborations and solutions. Afterwards, conversation continues down the block at Elixir (www.elixirsf.com), a Green-Certified business offering Green Movie Night attendees $1 off any organic beer, wine or mixed drink with your ticket stub.
Movie Night Details:
Doors open at 6pm, speakers and film start at 6:15pm. Seating is limited and we'll start promptly so you are encouraged to come early. Admission is $8 or $4 for students/seniors, payable at the Roxie box office two doors down.
This month UAS is honored to co-host Green Movie Night with Co-housing consultant Raines Cohen and Stephen Cataldo of SpaceShare (www.spaceshare.com).
Movie Description:
Visions of Utopia: Experiments in Sustainable Culture
by George Lozeny & the Community Catalyst Project
(Documentary, 94min.)
This film explores a brief history of 2500 years of shareded living and offers insights about what seems to work and what does not. It attempts to explore the "glue" that holds communities together and profiles seven very diverse contemporary communities to inspire us.
About SpaceShare:
For years there have been efforts to help you carpool to work. But your weekends required a car. SpaceShare is a new environmental organization committed to helping us share rides, share rooms and weave community far beyond our commutes. Whether it’s a music festival, a peace rally, a wedding, religious services or a health conference, we can rely on our communities more and our cars less. Find and support the events that make it easy to travel green at http://www.spaceshare.com/upcoming.
About Raines Cohen:
Raines Cohen, Cohousing Coach at Planning for Sustainable Communities, has visited more than fifty intentional communities like the ones featured in Visions of Utopia. He lives at Berkeley Cohousing (and helped create and lived at Swan's Market Cohousing in Oakland) and serves on the board of Fellowship for Intentional Community and is a regional organizer for Northern California Cohousing. He is currently presenting free Climate-Crisis educational workshops based on Al Gore's presentation from An Inconvenient Truth as part of The Climate Project. As a Certified Green Building Professional and Certified Senior Cohousing Facilitator, he will share a few thoughts about how Community helps us achieve Sustainability, be it in a built-from-scratch community, an organically-formed "retrofit" neighborhood, or wherever you live right now, at any age. He will stick around afterwards to answer questions about how you can best connect with existing local communities and create new ones.
