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Event
Screening of Joao Amorim's "Water and Cooperation"
Inspired by the theme chosen by the United Nations World Water Day 2013, the short film WATER AND COOPERATION proposes an interdisciplinary look at water that points towards the need for a radical shift in our relationship to this element that is the basis of all life on our planet. Afterwards, a discussion will take place between the film's director, Joao Amorim, Tiokasin Ghosthorse, and others to be announced.
Through the means of interviews with authorities, scientists, activists, farmers and leaders from various fields, "Water and Cooperation" shows how we can develop a new relationship with water that takes into account its social, political and spiritual dimensions, fostering cooperation and inclusion while overcoming the utilitarian look towards this element. The film features testimonies from personalities like Dr. Amit Goswami, Dr. Vicente Andreu, Benke Ashaninka, the late Dr. Masaru Emoto, Vandana Shiva, Leonardo Boff, Nelton Friedrich, Sri Prem Baba, Maria Alice Freire, Brazilian Defense Minister Celso Amorim, IPCC Carlos Nobre, among many others.
You can watch a clip here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6w_xaQudyU
When: Thursday October 30th, 7PM-9PM
Where: 447 Broadway 2nd Floor
Cost: is $10 in advance, $15 at the door
About the Director:
João Amorim is an Emmy nominated Director, writer and producer focused on animation and documentaries. He is the son of Celso Amorim (Brazilian's Defense Minister and former Foreign Minister). In 2010 he finished his first animated feature documentary: "2012 Time for Change", featuring among others David Lynch, Sting, Ellen Page, Gilberto Gil, and Paul Stamets. The News agency Reuters has called "2012" one of the 10 films behind the Occupy Wall Street movement. In 2011-2012 João directed the Recycling and Composting animated campaigns for the Brazilian Government, he directed a TV series hosted by Brazilian Singer Zeca Baleiro, on Ecological Innovation in Brazilian Industry (currently airing on TV Futura) and Directed a 32-minute documentary film on the Council of the 13 Indigenous Grandmothers, called "In the Flow with Waters".
As an environmental education activist, João led a team, training young people at risk, at one of the toughest favelas in Rio (Complexo do Alemão), in permaculture and organic agriculture techniques. The project was turned in to a short: Permaculture in the Favelas, Rio+20 Rio+Green, and was featured at Earth Summit in Rio. João has spoken at events such as Green Festivals and participated in a wide range of panels during the Earth Summit Rio+20.
He is in charge of a program at Brasilia's Botanical Garden, and has lead a team to produce over 200.000 native plantlings in the past year. He has also been training Brazilian soldiers in Permaculture techniques, and has a permaculture farm close to Brasilia. Recently he started working as a consulting producer to "Vila Sésamo", the Brazilian Sesame Street.
About Tiokasin Ghosthorse
Tiokasin Ghosthorse is an international speaker on Peace and Indigenous perspectives and recently was awarded the City of New York's Staten Island Peacemaker Award for 2013. He is a returning guest faculty at Yale University's School of Divinity, Ecology and Forestry regarding the cosmology, diversity and perspectives on the relational/egalitarian vs. rational/hierarchal thinking processes of Western society. He is a member of the Lakota Nation of South Dakota. He is a board member of several children's organizations that work to enhance living conditions and the opportunity to think culturally, spiritually and mentally from their place of Indigeneity. Tiokasin is the Host and executive producer of First Voices Indigenous Radio NY that is heard on 44 national radio stations for the last 21 years. He is a perfectly flawed human being who is a Sundancer in the tradition of the Lakota Nation.
Tiokasin works with Green Cross International and Global Peace Initiative for Women and will be attending the World Water Forum in Korea 2015. He recently returned from an International Study Tour of Fukushima, Japan.
Learn more at:
www.firstvoicesindigenousradio.org
About the Host
Evolver is a company that focuses on personal and social transformation by producing online content and learning, hosting events, workshops and festivals in cities around the world, and through conscious commerce with a focus on botanical plant medicines.
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447 Broadway
New York City, NY 10013
United States
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