Friday, January 13, 2012, 6:30 to 9:30 PM
(Note Early Start time)
FILM: “I AM” (77 min, Tom Shadyac, 2011)
TRANSITION FRIDAY!  …An evening focused on resilient community and positive solutions at a local level!
The Transition Focus Will Be On The Concept Of “Heart & Soul”
WITH GUESTS:     
Jun Akutsu with Ions Group Indira's Rainbow
Karen Stocker, Counselor, singer, artist, & storyteller with One Sky Wellness
Cathy Tuttle with Sustainable Wallingford

We are also exceptionally pleased to be able to start the evening with a poem entitled "I AM", read by its author, MARY KELLY GREENE.
I AM is an engaging non-fiction film posing two practical and provocative questions: What’s wrong with our world? And what can we do to make it better?  
Director Tom Shadyac (‘Ace Ventura’, ‘Bruce Almighty’) in contrast to his other films, set out on a twenty-first century quest for enlightenment, meeting with a remarkable variety of men and women from the worlds of science, philosophy, academia, and faith – including such luminaries as David Suzuki, Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and others.
I AM takes the audience to places it has never been before, and presents even familiar phenomena in completely new and different ways: The heart, not the brain, may be man’s primary organ of intelligence, and human consciousness and emotions can actually affect the physical world. Contrary to conventional thinking, cooperation and not competition may be nature’s most fundamental operating principle. 
Here consensus decision-making is shown as the norm amongst many species, from insects and birds to deer and primates, and that humans actually function better and remain healthier when expressing positive emotions, such as love, care, compassion, and gratitude, versus their negative counterparts, anxiety, frustration, anger and fear.
I AM isn’t as much about what you can do, as who you can be.  And from that transformation of being, action will naturally follow. The message is as simple as it is significant:  "We are all connected – connected to each other and to everything around us."
Please join us following the film for a facilitated community discussion with our guests.
Download the Flyer HERE.
See the trailer at: iamthedoc.com.
Check out Warren Ethredge's HighBar interview with director, Tom Shadyac: HERE
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, December 9, 2011, 6:30 to 9:30 PM
Film: A SELECTION OF FILM EXCERPTS ON “DIRECT DEMOCRACY” - With a focus on Occupy Seattle. …How Do We Best Connect The Occupy Movement With the Neighborhoods?  
"Transition Friday" : Positive Solutions At a Local Level
The state of the economy, the enormous disparity in wealth and opportunity we experience in this country and rest of the world, and the lack of a government truly responsive to the majority of its citizens are of devastating impact to us individually and as a nation. The Occupy Movement seeks a major transformation to a participatory democracy in the economy as well as in the government that will serve us all.
Tremendously important information is being discussed and developed and there needs to be a way that this can be shared with everyone. But the opportunities to participate in and support this movement are limited to the time and energy individuals struggle to make available.
This evening, we’ll hear about the Occupy Seattle Movement directly from participants, discuss why it’s important to all of us, and explore effective ways we can empower our communities in actively becoming part of this movement.
Facilitated discussion follows with participants from Occupy Seattle, Sustainable Wallingford and Transition Seattle.
More information on Occupy Seattle: http://occupyseattle.org/
Info on Occupy Wall Street: http://occupywallst.org/
Info on Transition Seattle: http://transitionseattle.com/
Info on Sustainable Wallingford: http://greenwallingford.ning.com/
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, December 2, 2011, 7:00 to 9:30 PM
Film:"PLAY AGAIN" (80 min, Tonje Hessen Schei, 2010)
WITH GREG LEMIEUX FROM GROUND PRODUCTIONS, THE FILMMAKER
One generation from now most people in the U.S. will have spent more time in the virtual world than in nature. New media technologies have improved our lives in countless ways. Information now appears with a click. Overseas friends are part of our daily lives. And even grandma loves Wii.
But what are we missing when we are behind screens? And how will this impact our children, our society, and eventually, our planet? At a time when children play more behind screens than outside, PLAY AGAIN explores the changing balance between the virtual and natural worlds. Is our connection to nature disappearing down the digital rabbit hole?
This moving and humorous documentary follows six teenagers who, like the “average American child,” spend five to fifteen hours a day behind screens. PLAY AGAIN unplugs these teens and takes them on their first wilderness adventure – no electricity, no cell phone coverage, no virtual reality.
Through the voices of children and leading experts including journalist Richard Louv, sociologist Juliet Schor, environmental writer Bill McKibben, educators Diane Levin and Nancy Carlsson-Paige, neuroscientist Gary Small, parks advocate Charles Jordan, and geneticist David Suzuki, PLAY AGAIN investigates the consequences of a childhood removed from nature and encourages action for a sustainable future.
As we stand at a turning point in our relationship with earth, we find ourselves immersed in the gray area between the natural and virtual worlds. From a global perspective of wonder and hope, PLAY AGAIN examines this unique point in history.
Join us for this incredible film, followed by a community discussion with the filmmaker. See the trailer and great resources at: http://playagainfilm.com/.
Please help us get the word out! Download the Flyer HERE. Thanks!
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ..but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, November 25, 2011, 7:00 to 9:30 PM
Film:“MOTORCYCLE DIARIES”
(126 min, Walter Salles, 2004)
Beautifully filmed adaptation of Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara's journals of the same name, as 23-year-old medical student Guevara travels across the South American continent in pre-revolutionary 1951 and 1952. Guevara travels with his friend Alberto Granado, a biochemist, on an ailing 500cc Norton motorcycle, which they name ‘La Poderosa’ (The Powerful One).  Che and Alberto set off from Argentina and cross into Chile and Peru in order to take up their medical residency at a leper colony. Along the way, and especially at the colony, Che and Alberto are exposed to the plight of the poor, vulnerable and suffering.
This proves to be formative for Che Guevara, already a young radical. When Che bids farewell to the leper colony, he says: “This journey has only confirmed this belief, that the division of America into unstable and illusory nations is a complete fiction. We are one single mestizo race from Mexico to the Magellan Straits. And so, in an attempt to free ourselves from narrow-minded provincialism, I propose a toast to Peru and to a united America.”
See the Trailer HERE.
Download the Flyer HERE!
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ..but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, October 28, 2011, 6:30 to 9:30 PM
FILM: MOVING BEYOND THE AUTOMOBILE
... AND ADDITIONAL SHORT FEATURES
(60 min, StreetFilms, 2011)
(Short Topical Films at 6:30; Main Film Starts at 7)
FOLLOWED BY A PANEL DISCUSSION ON THE FUTURE OF ALTERNATIVE TRANSPORTATION AND PUBLIC OPEN SPACES IN SEATTLE; AND A DISCUSSION ON SEATTLE’S UPCOMING PROPOSITION 1.

WITH:
MIKE O'BRIEN, Seattle City Council Member
LISA QUINN, Director of Feet First;
CRAIG BENJAMIN, Cascade Bicycle Club’s Policy And Government Affairs Manager;
TIM HARRIS, Executive Director Of Real Change;
CATHY TUTTLE, Spokespeople Coordinator;
REF LINDMARK, Transportation Planner with King County Metro …and others
*6:30 PM: Topical Films
*7:00 PM: Main Feature Begins
*Panel Discussion Follows the Film
MOVING BEYOND THE AUTOMOBILE and the short videos we’ve assembled will explore solutions to the problem of automobile dependency.  These films and this evening's discussion will help guide policy makers, advocacy organizations, teachers, students, and others into a world that values pedestrian plazas over parking lots and train tracks over highways. 
...Cars were then, and this is now.  Welcome to the future.
Join us following the film for a panel discussion on the future of alternative transportation and public open spaces in Seattle!
Download the flyer HERE. Please help us get the word out. Thanks!
For more information on the film, go to www.streetfilms.org.
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, October 7, 2011, 7:00 to 9:30 PM
FILM: “FORKS OVER KNIVES”
(90 min, Lee Fulkerson, 2011)
With:
-MARY PURDY, MS, Registered Dietitian, and Immediate Past-President of Greater Seattle Dietetics Association
www.NourishingBalance.com,
-CINDY SORENSEN, Registered Dietitian, and Public
Relations Co-Chair of Greater Seattle Dietetics Association
www.EatRightSeattle.org
-MICHELLE BABB, MS, Registered Dietitian specializing in mind-body nutrition, weight loss and food allergies.
-KATIE McKENNA, Certified Nutritionist and Mental Health Counselor
...AND OTHERS!
What has happened to us? Despite the most advanced medical technology in the world, we are sicker than ever by nearly every measure.
Two out of every three of us are overweight. Cases of diabetes are exploding, especially amongst our younger population. About half of us are taking at least one prescription drug. Major medical operations have become routine, helping to drive health care costs to astronomical levels. Heart disease, cancer and stroke are the country’s three leading causes of death, even though billions are spent each year to "battle" these very conditions. Millions suffer from a host of other degenerative diseases.
FORKS OVER KNIVES examines the profound claim that most, if not all, of the degenerative diseases that afflict us can be controlled, or even reversed, by rejecting animal-based and processed foods.
Join us after the film for a panel and in-depth discussion with Mary Purdy, Cindy Sorensen, Michelle Babb, Katie McKenna and GSDA.
Download the flyer HERE. Please help us get the word out. Thanks!
For more information on the film, go to: www.forksoverknives.com
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, May 27, 2011, 7:00 to 9:30 PM
Film: “THIS LAND IS OUR LAND - THE FIGHT TO RECLAIM THE COMMONS”
(46 min, Jeremy Earp & Sut Jhally, 2010)
WITH CRAIG SALINS, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF WASHINGTON PUBLIC CAMPAIGNS
Plus the Short animated Film:
"THEN STORY OF CITIZENS UNITED V. FEC"
(By Annie Leonard, 8 min, 2011)
For more than three decades, transnational corporations have been busy buying up what used to be known as the commons -- everything from our forests and our oceans to our broadcast airwaves and our most important intellectual and cultural works. In This Land is Our Land, acclaimed author David Bollier, a leading figure in the global movement to reclaim the commons, bucks the rising tide of anti-government extremism and free market ideology to show how commercial interests are undermining our collective interests. Placing the commons squarely within the American tradition of community engagement and the free exchange of ideas and information, Bollier shows how a bold new international movement steeped in democratic principles is trying to reclaim our common wealth by modeling practical alternatives to the restrictive monopoly powers of corporate elites.
Please join us for a facilitated discussion following the film!
For more information on the Washington Public Campaigns, go to: www.washclean.org
Download the flyer HERE. Please help us get the word out, Thanks!
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, May 20, 2011, 7:00 to 9:30 PM
Film: “ON THE EDGE”
(60 min, Diane Nilan and Laura Vazquez, 2011)
...FOLLOWED BY A PANEL DISCUSSION WITH:
DIANE NILAN - THE FILM’S PRODUCER
POLLY TROUT - FOUNDER OF SEATTLE EDUCATION ACCESS
TIM HARRIS - THE FOUNDER OF REAL CHANGE HOMELESS EMPOWERMENT PROJECT
BRITTNEY FERARA - EDUCATION ADVOCATE AT SEATTLE EDUCATION ACCESS
Think you know homelessness?  Think again…   Far beyond urban street corners where often-scorned and neglected homeless men and women shuffle, invisible families and teens struggle to survive homelessness and destitution. They stay in a variety of locales, in communities of all sizes and economic compositions. For numerous reasons, this sub-population of homeless denizens have been mostly ignored, and now estimates of their numbers exceeds 2 million, with some experts believing that invisible homeless families could number close to 10 million.
ON THE EDGE, featuring 7 women who lost their housing for a variety of reasons, gives a painfully intimate look at the entwined connection between poverty, housing issues, social problems, addictions, family crises, and gender-related injustices. These compelling and forthcoming experts on homelessness shine a bright, unmitigated light on systemic and personal causes of their struggles, illuminating what has been a dark corner of social inaction and concern.
For more information on Seattle Education Access, go to:
http://www.seattleeducationaccess.org/
for more information on Real Change, go to: http://www.realchangenews.org/
Download the flyer here: Color or B&W. Help us get the word out, Thanks!
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday  April 1, 2011, 7:00 to 9:30 PM
Film: “RETURN TO EL SALVADOR ”
(68 min, Jamie Moffett, 2010)
With:
*A SHORT FILM ON GUATEMALA - produced by the Social Justice Travel Program at NOVA High School, here in Seattle.
*THE RAGING GRANNIES! , and
*REPRESENTATIVES FROM C.I.S.P.E.S. (The Committee In Solidarity With The People of El Salvador)
"RETURN TO EL SALVADOR", narrated by Martin Sheen, explores the reconstruction of El Salvador, post-civil war. The 12-year conflict (from 1980 to 1992) killed over 75,000 people and displaced nearly one-fifth of the population. The fighting, which took place between the Salvadoran Army and the leftist guerrilla organization, the FMLN, resulted in a staggering number of civilian deaths as the Salvadoran Army bombed and raided villages thought to be sympathetic to the FMLN. Many of these Salvadoran Army soldiers were trained and supported by the United States military at its School of the Americas (now known as WHINSEC), located in Ft. Benning, Georgia.
"RETURN TO EL SALVADOR" brings the struggles of this beleaguered country back into view and examines what drives over 700 Salvadorans to flee their homeland each day, often risking their lives to illegally enter countries in search of a better life for their families. It represents the power and audacity of solidarity, and challenges North Americans to question the global impact of their government on struggling nations.
Please join us following the film for a facilitated discussion with the NOVA Social Justice Travel Program, CISPES, and The Raging Grannies!
For additional info on the NOVA Program: jbsswaja@seattleschools.net or 206-523-3278
For additional information on CISPES: http://seattlecispes.org/lang/en-us/
Download the flyer here: COLOR or B&W
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, March 11, 2011, 7:00 to 9:30 PM
Film: “SOUTH OF THE BORDER” (78 min, Oliver Stone, 2009) With FATHER ROY BOURGEOIS, FOUNDER OF THE SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS WATCH;
Also with KATE SPELTZ, Director of SOAW - Puget Sound
There’s a revolution underway in South America, but most of the world doesn’t know it. Oliver Stone sets out on a road trip across five countries to explore the social and political movements as well as the mainstream media’s misperception of South America while interviewing seven of its elected presidents. In casual conversations with Presidents Hugo Chávez (Venezuela), Evo Morales (Bolivia), Lula da Silva (Brazil), Cristina Kirchner  (Argentina), as well as her husband and ex-President Nėstor Kirchner,  Fernando Lugo  (Paraguay), Rafael Correa (Ecuador), and Raúl Castro  (Cuba), Stone gains unprecedented access and sheds new light upon the exciting transformations in the region.
Father Bourgeois has traveled extensively in South America, meeting with leaders and convincing many of them to withdraw support of the US School of the Americas (now known as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation).  
Please join us following the film for a community discussion with Father Roy Bourgeois and members of SOAW - PUGET SOUND.   
Download flyers here: COLOR or B&W
For more information on Schol of Americas Watch, go to: www.soaw.org
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted).

Father Bourgeois will also be speaking on Thursday, March 10th at 7PM at Wallingford United Methodist Church, 2115 N 42nd St. Seattle
"FATHER ROY BOURGEOIS: CONFRONTING MILITARISM IN THE AMERICAS: THE TRUTH BEHIND THE SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS AND U.S. FOREIGN POLICY".
For more information this event, go HERE or contact: sgregmare@aol.com; 206 / 632-1523

Friday, March 4th, 2011, 6:30 to 9:30 PM (Film at 7PM)
TRANSITION FRIDAY! (NOTE EARLY START TIME)
"TRANSITION TOWNS REVISITED"
A Collection of Films and a Panel Discussion
…Celebrating a year of Transition Fridays
On this one-year anniversary of Transition Fridays at Meaningful Movies, we’re inviting groups working with the transition initiative from around the Puget Sound area and elsewhere to come share their process, what they value most, and what they see for the future.
W e'll come full circle to review what the Transition Movement is all about, and what actual Transition Initiatives look like throughout  the region, the country, and the world. 
More importantly, we'll begin to imagine what Transition would look like at the scale of our own city, Seattle.
Join us for an evening focused on positive solutions at a local level with Transition Seattle, Sustainable Wallingford and Many Others. 
Download the Flyer HERE. Please help us get the word out. Thanks!
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, February 11, 2011, 6:30 to 9:30 PM (Film at 7PM)
TRANSITION FRIDAY! (NOTE EARLY START TIME)
An Evening Focused On Positive Solutions at a Local Level!
AND MEANINGFUL MOVIES’ 8th ANNIVERSARY!
Film: "THE ECONOMICS OF HAPPINESS"
(58 min, Helena Norberg-Hodge, 2010)
WITH:
VICKI ROBIN, Author of "Your Money or Your Life"
RICHARD CONLIN, Seattle City Council President
LEO BRODIE, With Transition Seattle,
CATHY TUTTLE, With Sustainable Wallingford,
and others.
Please join us for this newly released documentary film by the International Society for Ecology & Culture (ISEC) about the worldwide movement for economic localization.
Economic globalization has led to a massive expansion in the scale and power of big business and banking. It has also worsened nearly every problem we face. For the majority of people on the planet life is becoming increasingly stressful. We have less time for friends and family and we face mounting pressures at work.
The Economics of Happiness describes a world moving simultaneously in two opposing directions. On the one hand, government and big business continue to promote globalization and the consolidation of corporate power. At the same time, all around the world people are resisting those policies, demanding a re-regulation of trade and finance—and, far from the old institutions of power, they’re starting to forge a very different future. Communities are coming together to re-build more human scale, ecological economies based on a new paradigm – an economics of localization.
FOLLOWED BY A FACILITATED DISCUSSION WITH VICKI ROBIN , RICHARD CONLIN, TRANSITION SEATTLE, SUSTAINABLE WALLINGFORD, AND OTHERS.
And Join Us For Our 8th Anniversary Celebration!
Download the Flyer HERE. Please help us get the word out. Thanks!
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, January 28, 2011, 7:00 to 9:30 PM
Film: “WHAT'S THE ECONOMY FOR, ANYWAY?
(40 min, John de Graaf, 2010)
WITH FILMMAKER JOHN DE GRAAF AND LAURA MUSIKANSKI, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR - SUSTAINABLE SEATTLE
Is the GDP is an adequate measure of society's well-being? Are there workable alternatives? And ...what's happiness got to do with it?
In this film produced by John de Graaf of AFFLUENZA fame and TAKE BACK YOUR TIME, ecological economist Dave Batker presents a humorous, edgy, factual, timely and highly-visual monologue about the American economy today, challenging the ways we measure economic success--especially the Gross Domestic Product--and offering an answer to the question: What's the Economy for, Anyway?
Using Gifford Pinchot's idea that the economy's purpose is "the greatest good for the greatest number over the longest run," Batker compares the performance of the U.S. economy with that of other industrial countries in terms of providing a high quality of life, fairness and ecological sustainability, concluding that when you do the numbers, we come out near the bottom in nearly every category.
Batker shines a humorous light on such economic buzzwords as "productivity," and "consumer sovereignty," while offering ideas for "capitalism with a human face," a new economic paradigm that meets the real needs of people and the planet.
Join us following the film for a community discussion with Filmmaker John de Graaf and Laura Musikanski, Executive Director of Sustainable Seattle, about a meaningful framing of our economy, and a presentation on the recently released Happiness Survey from the Seattle Area Happiness Initiative!
Download the Flyer HERE. Please help us get the word out. Thanks!
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted). 

(The film. "WikiLeaks: The Documentary", originally announced, will hopefully be shown when screening rights are obtained at a later date.)

Friday, January 21, 2011, 7:00 to 9:30 PM
Film: “WHICH WAY HOME”
(83 min, Rebecca Cammisa, 2010)
FOLLOWED BY A PANEL DISCUSSION ON THE COMPLEX ISSUES OF IMMIGRATION
The Film:
As the United States continues to build a wall between itself and Mexico, Which Way Home shows the personal side of immigration through the eyes of children who face harrowing dangers with enormous courage and resourcefulness as they endeavor to make it to the United States.
We are pleased to partner with Exiled Voices for Justice (www.exiledvoicesforjustice.org) and Lutheran Community  Services, Refugee and Immigrant Children’s Program (www.refugeechildren.net) to screen this 2010 Oscar-nominated documentary film, which chronicles the journeys undertaken by unaccompanied immigrant children from Central America and Mexico who risk everything to flee their native land, desperate to secure a brighter future in the United States.  
Director Rebecca Cammisa tracks the stories of Olga and Freddy, nine-year-old Hondurans desperately trying to reach their families in Minnesota. Theirs are stories of hope and courage, disappointment and sorrow.
The Panel:
REBEKAH FLETCHER:
Children’s Attorney with Volunteer Advocates for Immigrant Justice (VAIJ)
www.abanet.org/publicserv/immigration/vaij.shtml
SIERRA ROWE:
Social Worker with the Refugee & Immigrant Children’s Program at Lutheran Community Services NW  www.refugeechildren.net
DEANN ADAMS:
Program Manager of Friends of Youth’s El Puente program,
www.friendsofyouth.org/  and,
ROGER VILLALOBOS: Whose journey to the U.S. resembled those of the children in the film;
MODERATED BY JORGE BARON: Executive Director of the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project (NWIRP) http://www.nwirp.org/
Following the screening/discussion:
An advocacy fair showcasing the initiatives of non-profits working on behalf of immigrants fleeing poverty, abuse, or persecution in Central America and Mexico will offer attendees a unique opportunity to learn more and find out how to get involved.     
Download the Flyer HERE. Please help us get the word out. Thanks!
To see the trailer, go to: www.whichwayhome.net
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, January 14, 2011, 6:30 to 9:30 PM (Film at 7PM)
TRANSITION FRIDAY! (NOTE EARLY START TIME)
An Evening Focused On Positive Solutions at a Local Level!
Film: “FIXING THE FUTURE”
(58min, Ellen Spiro/PBS-NOW, 2010)
Followed by a Facilitated Discussion, with:
CHRISTINA HANNA
- Director, Seattle Good Business Network
COLLEEN KURKE
- President, Wallingford Chamber of Commerce
BRIAN SURRATT
- Business Development Director, Seattle Office of Economic Development
LEO BRODIE
- Transition Seattle
CATHY TUTTLE
- Sustainable Wallingford Coordinator
AND OTHERS …
The economy does not have to be the way it is right now. If you didn't believe we were in trouble before the financial tornado hit in 2008, you probably do now, regardless of your political leanings. One response is to put a new coat of paint on the old economy, maybe even fumigate it. But who is trying something fresh, experimenting with ways the economy can better serve more people and be less prone to getting destructively out of whack?
FIXING THE FUTURE Interviews leading economists, David Korten and Jane D'Arista, as well as the US Editor of The Economist, Matthew Bishop, to find out how to go about fixing capitalism, rebuilding our economy and creating jobs.
Download the flyer HERE
A few Short Films and informal community discussion at 6:30 PM;
…Film starts at 7:00PM.
Please join us following the film for a facilitated discussion.
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, January 7, 2011, 7:00 to 9:30 PM
Film: “NOT JUST A GAME” (62 min, Jeremy Earp, 2010)
The Politics of Sports …and the Sports of Politics. We've been told again and again that sports and politics don't mix, that games are just games and athletes should just "shut up and play."  Nation magazine sports editor Dave Zirin argues that far from providing merely escapist entertainment, American sports have long been at the center of some of the major political debates and struggles of our time. He first traces how American sports have glamorized militarism, racism, sexism, and homophobia, then excavates a largely forgotten history of rebel athletes who stood up to power and fought for social justice beyond the field of play.
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, December 17, 2010, 7-9:30 PM
Film: "JOYEUX NOEL" (116 min, Christian Carion, 2005)
In 1914, World War I, the bloodiest war ever at that time in human history, was well under way. However on Christmas Eve, numerous sections of the Western Front called an informal, and unauthorized, truce where the various front-line soldiers of the conflict peacefully met each other in No Man's Land to share a precious pause in the carnage with a fleeting brotherhood. This film dramatizes one such section as the French, British and German sides partake in the unique event, even though they are aware that their superiors will not tolerate its occurrence.
A great story of both peace and caution for the holiday season.
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ..but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, November 26, 2010, 7:00 to 9:30 PM
Film: “THE HARRIMAN ALASKA EXPEDITION RETRACED” (110 min, Lawrence Hott, 2002)
Two scientific expeditions to Alaska, 100 years apart, give us an unparalleled view of environmental damage and the change in society's attitudes.
A century ago, railroad tycoon Edward H. Harriman decided to form of one of the most ambitious scientific expeditions the world had ever seen. He invited the top authorities in the country: geologists, botanists, foresters, ornithologists, paleontologists, zoologists, painters, photographers, writers to join him on a 9000-mile exploration of the coast of Alaska.  Over a century later, Thomas Litwin of Smith College organized an expedition to follow the path of the original one. Again, it was stocked with a constellation of scientific brilliance. THE HARRIMAN ALASKA EXPEDITION RETRACED presents a unique look at 100 years of change in Alaska, and in American attitudes towards the environment and indigenous peoples.
Download the flyer HERE. Please help us get the word out!
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, November 5, 2010, 7:00 to 9:30 PM
Film: “THE HOLLYWOOD LIBRARIAN: A LOOK AT LIBRARIANS THROUGH FILM" (96 MIN, Ann Seidl, 2007)
With LOCAL LIBRARIANS AND LIBRARY UNION REPRESENTATIVES!
They have more cardholders than VISA, more customers than Amazon, and more outlets than McDonald's. Meet America's librarians. THE HOLLYWOOD LIBRARIAN is the first comprehensive treatment of the subject of librarians.
A vivid blend of factual documentary, feature film, and storytelling, it reveals the history and realities of librarianship in the entertaining and appealing context of American movies. Interviews with librarians, intercut with film clips of cinematic librarians, examine such issues as literature, books and reading, censorship, library funding, citizenship and democracy.
For the first time, we see and understand the real lives and real work of American librarians who for decades have been a cultural force hiding in plain sight. - Please join us following the film for a facilitated discussion.
Please Download our flyer HERE and help spread the word!  -Thanks!
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, October 29, 2010, 7:00 to 9:30 PM
Film: THE MOVIE: “PEACE THROUGH MUSIC”
PLAYING FOR CHANGE !!
...a evening of great music!!
(83 min, Mark Johnson and Jonathan Walls, 2008)
PEACE THROUGH MUSIC is a story of hope, struggle, perseverance and joy. Musicians from different cultures uniting together for the common purpose of peace through music, is a powerful statement.
The idea for this project arose from a common belief that music has the power to break down boundaries and overcome distances between people. No matter whether people come from different geographic, political, economic, spiritual or ideological backgrounds, music has the universal power to transcend and unite us as one human race. And with this truth firmly fixed in their minds, Directors Mark Johnson and Jonathan Walls, along with the PLAYING FOR CHANGE team, carrying high-tech portable recording equipment, traveled the globe with a single minded passion: To connect the world through music. Please join us following the film for a facilitated discussion.
DOWNLOAD THE FLYER HERE! ...Please help us get the word out! -thanks!
The Playing For Change performance, "Stand By Me": HERE.
See the Movie Trailer: HERE
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted).

ALSO, the PLAYING FOR CHANGE 2010 BAND TOUR will be in Seattle on the following Wednesday, Nov 3rd, at 7:30PM, at the Moore Theater, 1932 Second Avenue, Seattle.
Don’t miss this opportunity to see this amazing collection of world-traveling musicians. For the past four years Playing For Change has traveled the world and created a family of over 100 musicians from all walks of life.  This Band Tour is the next chapter in their story. Come witness first-hand the transformational power of music and love. 
For more information on the Tour, the Band and the Project, go to: www.playingforchange.com. For concert tickets go to: www.stgpresents.org  

Friday, October 22, 2010, 6:45 to 9:30 PM - (NOTE EARLY START TIME)
Film: “THE GREATEST SILENCE:
RAPE IN THE CONGO" (76 min, Lisa F. Jackson, 2008)
In honor of Congo Week (October 17-23). With A Special Panel Discussion on the Current Situation In the Congo.
AND a Preview Slideshow of the Internationally Touring Photo Exhibit: “CONGO/WOMEN”- Meet Our Guests at 6:30; Exhibit Slideshow Begins at 6:45; Film Begins at 7:00.
Winner of the Sundance Special Jury Prize in Documentary and inspiration for a U.N. Resolution classifying rape as a weapon of war, “The Greatest Silence” opened the world’s eyes to the epidemic of rape in eastern Congo.
Featuring interviews with survivors, activists, peacekeepers, physicians, and – chillingly – soldiers who unabashedly admit to torturing women, this powerful film shattered the silence surrounding the use of rape as a weapon of war while inspiring viewers with examples of resistance, courage, and resilience.
Mineral-rich eastern Congo is considered the most dangerous place in the world to be a woman or a girl. Competition for control over mineral resources – including coltan, which is used to manufacture electronics – has attracted foreign militias and soldiers from the Congolese Army who use sexual violence to control villagers in mining areas.
Please join us following the screening: Panelists will discuss issues raised by the film and ways in which those issues are being addressed today:
Dick Anderson, Executive Director, HEAL Africa (www.healafrica.org);
Wemba-koy Okonda, President, OkoNGO (www.okongo.org); and
Erika Berg, Refugee and Immigrant Children’s Program
(www.refugeechildren.net).
This event is co-hosted by Lutheran Community Services NW’s Refugee and Immigrant Children’s Program.  For more info: www.exiledvoicesforjustice.org
Download Our Flyer HERE. Please help us get the word out.
For more info on the film, click HERE
To learn more about Congo Week: www.congoweek.org
For more info on the Photo Exhibit: CONGO / WOMEN: www.congowomen.org
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, October 15, 2010, 7:00 to 9:30 PM
Film: "SISTERS ON THE PLANET" - and Shorts from
"THE HARDEST HIT SERIES" CO-HOSTED BY OXFAM
...and with REPRESENTATIVES FROM
CONGRESSMAN JIM MCDERMOTT'S OFFICE.
A night with representatives of OXFAM (Oxford Famine Relief) featuring films and shorts on the effect of Climate Change on the Third World and the latest efforts in Aid Reform.  Joining us as well will be staff members from Representative Jim McDermott’s office. Representative McDermott will potentially be in attendance as well. Films will include: “SISTERS ON THE PLANET” - the stories of four women who have become community leaders working on adaptation projects in the wake of climate-related disasters and changing weather conditions. The "HARDEST HIT" series will also be featured: shorts on the effects of climate change on poor communities in Vietnam, Ethiopia, El Salvador, and Louisiana. The evening’s topic will also be expanded to include discussion of efforts to increase Aid Effectiveness.
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For more information on OXFAM, go to: www.oxfam.org
Please join us following the film for a facilitated discussion.
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, October 8, 2010, 7:00 to 9:30 PM
TRANSITION FRIDAY!
Film: “THE AGE OF STUPID - Why didn’t We save Ourselves When We Had the Chance?”
(92 min, Franny Armstrong, 2009) - And SEATTLE'S KICK OFF FOR 350.ORG 10/10/10 DAY OF CLIMATE ACTION!
Join us with:
SUSAN DAVIS, the founder of the TIPPING POINT NETWORK,
CATHY TUTTLE with 350.ORG & SUSTAINABLE WALLINGFORD,
and LEO BRODIE with TRANSITION SEATTLE
A film about the future we could face if we don't make changes, ...and quickly. This one is not for the fainthearted, because the combination of documentary and a fictionalized "future" as told by the narrator carries double the impact of a purely factual film. That said, the message is conveyed creatively and clearly. Pete Postelwaite is entirely believable as the weary archivist of the future, who is still in disbelief at the facts available to humanity in 2010- and how easy it was for even the most well-intentioned of us to ignore them at times.
SUSAN DAVIS is the founder of the Tipping Point Network, an informal network-of-networks founded in 2006 to catalyze a tipping point in sustainability sectors like organics, renewable energy, green building and integrative medicine. Using the “Key Initiator Network Strategy” she brought together innovators like Van Jones; Alisa Gravitz of Green America; Ray Anderson of Interface Carpet; Ocean Robbins of YES!; Marion Rockefeller Weber of the Flow Fund Circle & many others. Her new book is called A Trojan horse of Love, “the heartfelt story of how, over the last thirty years, 20 tiny groups of leaders have created a powerful new method of innovation to manifest sustainability based on love, trust and generosity.” She is a President of Capital Missions Company, an early pioneer of Socially Responsible Investing with ShoreBank, and a Harvard MBA. 
More information on the Film: http://www.ageofstupid.net/
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(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, October 1, 2010, 7:00 to 9:30 PM
Film: “WHO DOES SHE THINK SHE IS?”
Followed by a facilitated discussion with special guests!
(73 min, Pamela Tanner Boll & Nancy Kennedy, 2008)
Can women follow their artistic instincts and still function as wives and mothers?  WHO DOES SHE THINK SHE IS?, is a riveting documentary by Academy Award-winning producer Pamela Tanner Boll (Born Into Brothels). It features five bold women who navigate some of the most problematic intersections of our time: parenting and creativity, partnering and independence, economics and art.
Through their lives Tanner Boll explores what it means to nurture children and family, and keep the creative fire burning within.
Please join us following the film for a facilitated discussion!
For more information on the film, please go to:
www.whodoesshethinksheis.net
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(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, September 24, 2010, 7:00 to 9:30 PM
Film: RUN GRANNY RUN (76 min, Marlo Poras, 2007)
Doris “Granny D” Haddock was the nation's oldest political newcomer.  A former housewife and office assistant, Doris was happily retired for over twenty years – but when her husband died, she needed a reason to live.  So at the age of 90, she laced up her sneakers and walked across America to rally against the influence of big money in elections. 
Her epic journey galvanized popular attention to a political system gone awry, but for Doris the walk was just a warm up.  Still fed up with politics as usual, at age 94 she jumped at an unexpected chance to run for U.S. Senate against incumbent Judd Gregg (an intellectual sparring partner of George W. Bush).  With just four months until Election Day, this great-grandmother of sixteen faced a series of challenges that would be daunting for a candidate of any age.  Doris and her motley crew of political aces and amateurs work against all odds to craft a feisty campaign that personifies her democratic ideals of a government ...of, by and for the people.
Granny D recently died at the age of 100. Michael Lerman with Indiewire recently stated: "Run Granny Run...one of the most inspiring true stories of our time. In a sea of terribly constructed political documentaries...RUN GRANNY RUN is a breath of fresh air."
ALSO, a short teaser for the new film "Citizen Mayor" on the 2009 Seattle Mayor's Election selected for the Local Sightings Film Festival [LSFF] and will be shown at 7 PM on October 3, at the Northwest Film Forum (1515 12th Ave. Seattle, WA 98122; movie line: 206-829-7863). Download their flyer HERE.
More info on Run Granny Run: at: www.marloporas.com/pages/press.html
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(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, September 10, 2010, 7:00 to 9:30 PM
Film: Chris Martenson’s “CRASH COURSE” Vol 1
(60 min, Chris Martenson, 2009)
The CRASH COURSE seeks to provide us with a baseline understanding of the economy so that we can better appreciate the risks that we all face.  It ties together the Three E's - Economy, Energy and the Environment to help us prepare for a future that will be drastically different from the past. While the topics woven together present some of the extremely serious challenges and risks that our economy and prosperity faces, the goal is to educate ourselves so that we can work to build resilience into our lives and community.
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted).

INFO FROM SCREENING ON 9/10/10:
A few of the website resources discussed:
>>Chris Martenson's website: http://www.chrismartenson.com/
>>See Crash Corse in it's entirety online: http://www.chrismartenson.com/crashcourse
>>The 45-min version of Crash Course: http://www.chrismartenson.com/page/crash-course-one-year-anniversary
>>Stoneleigh (Nicole Foss) at 2010 Transition Conference: http://sheffield.indymedia.org.uk/2010/06/453356.html
>>Automatic Earth website: http://theautomaticearth.blogspot.com/
>>The concluding Short Film we screened interviewing Rob Hopkins & Peter Lipman: http://transitionculture.org/2010/06/22/final-film-from-transition-network-conference-2010-reflections-on-stoneleighs-talk/
>>More info on the Transition Movement: http://transitionculture.org/

Friday, JULY 30, 2010, 7:00 to 9:30 PM
Film: “THE IRATE BIRDWATCHER”
(54 min, Robert and Kathy Chrestensen, 2009)
...JOIN US FOR THE LAST FILM OF A GREAT SEASON!
It's all about wilderness preservation … told in the inspiring words of Harvey Manning – the irate birdwatcher. Follow the legendary Northwest writer and conservationist as he discovers the beauty of Washington’s wildest places, and the need to stand up and fight for their very survival. This is Harvey’s story about this state’s unique wilderness … his deep passion for it, his years of ramblings as an avid backpacker and climber, and his own personal crusade to preserve and protect it for future generations.
Honorable Mention for Creative Approach, 6th Annual Montana CINE International Film Festival .
Guests for the evening will include TOM HAMMOND, from the American Alps Legacy Project: www.americanalps.org
JOE BRESKIN and JOHN NELSON, will be playing guitar music from the film, before the film starts this evening.
Download the flyer HERE. Please help us get the word out!
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted)

Friday, JUNE 25, 2010, 7:00 to 9:30 PM
Film: "BIGGER, STRONGER, FASTER"
(106 min, Chris Bell, 2008)
In America, we define ourselves in the superlative: we are the biggest, strongest, fastest country in the world. We reward speed, size and above all else: winning – at sport, at business and at war. Metaphorically we are a nation on steroids. Is it any wonder that so many of our heroes are on performance enhancing drugs? Blending comedy and pathos, Bigger, Stronger, Faster is a collision of pop culture and first-person narrative, with a diverse cast including US Congressmen, professional athletes, medical experts and everyday gym rats. At its heart, this is the story of director Christopher Bell and his two brothers, who grew up idolizing muscular giants like Hulk Hogan, Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger, and who went on to become members of the steroid-subculture in an effort to realize their American dream. When you discover that your heroes have all broken the rules, do you follow the rules, or do you follow your heroes? 
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(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted)

Friday, MAY 28, 2010, 7:00 to 9:30 PM
Film: “AN UNREASONABLE MAN – RALPH NADER”
(122 minutes, Henriette Mantel and Steve Skrovan, 2006)         
Ralph Nader is without a doubt one of the most passionate and determined personalities of our time. Loved, hated, respected and feared. Nader has had more impact on our daily lives than most presidents. Now, this first-hand account takes you behind his groundbreaking consumer advocacy campaigns and contested presidential runs. An Unreasonable man shows why Nader continues to be one of the most unique and important American political figures of our time.
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(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted)

Friday, MAY 14, 2010, 6:30 to 9:30 PM (Note special Start Time)
“TRANSITION FRIDAY”!
TOPIC: A TRANSITION FOCUS ON ENERGY - PART 2
A Series of Great Short Films on Energy Descent and Meaningful Energy Alternatives: Chris Martenson's "CRASH COURSE", "THE POWER DOWN SHOW", and others.
With:
Leo Brodie: TRANSITION SEATTLE
Cathy Tuttle: SUSTAINABLE WALLINGFORD
Christy Nordstrom: SEATTLE RENEWABLE ENERGY MEET-UP
SEATTLE CITY LIGHT
SALISH SEA MARITIME EXCHANGE
WALLINGFORD SOLAR
EOS ALLIANCE
...and numerous other guests!
Take a hard look at the inevitable intersection of Peak Oil, Global Climate Change, and an Unsustainable Economy. It's not all bad. In fact, it's a golden opportunity!
Please come early (6:30PM), for informal conversation with groups currently working on local alternative energy solutions!
... Film begins at 7:00 PM. Join us for a facilitated Community Discussion following the film.
Please help us get the word out: - download the flyer here: Color or B&W. Thanks!
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted)

Friday, April 23, 2010, 7:00 to 9:30 PM
Film: “GONZO – LIFE OF HUNTER S. THOMPSON”
(2008 min, Alex Gibney, 120 min)
From the producer of “Taxi to the Dark Side”, “Enron: the smartest guys in the room”, and “Money-Driven Medicine” comes a bio of the eccentric “Gonzo Journalist”. In examining Thompsons amazing life the film covers his career from sixties counterculture to the dirty tricks behind the ’72 presidential election and his “Battle of Aspen” Freak Power campaign for Sheriff in a parochial small town . We hear from a wide range of his acquaintances including Sonny Barger, Jimmy Carter, Ed Muskie, Pat Buchanan, Tom Wolfe and many more.
Please join us for a facilitated conversation following the film!
Download the flyer HERE. -Please help us get the word out! Thanks!
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted)

Friday, April 9, 2010, 6:30 to 9:30 PM
“TRANSITION FRIDAY”!
FILM: "COAL COUNTRY"
85 min, Phylis Geller and Mari-Lynn Evans, 2009
A TRANSITION FOCUS ON ENERGY - PART 1 …with COOLMOM.ORG, THE SIERRA CLUB, & EARTH MINISTRY;
and: TRANSITION SEATTLE, & SUSTAINABLE WALLINGFORD! 
Come early at 6:30 PM for informal conversation with our guests!
(Film starts promptly at 7:00 PM).
“TRANSITION FRIDAYS”: COME JOIN US FOR AN EVENING FOCUSED ON POSITIVE SOLUTIONS AT A VERY LOCAL LEVEL - EVERY 2ND FRIDAY!   
TRANSITION ENERGY POINTS FOR THE EVENING:
1) We're addicted to fossil fuels, our source is drying up, and we need to kick the habit. We are close to or already past peaks for all fossil fuels.
2) We need to employ the energy we have left to build a Transition bridge to a clean energy future.
The documentary film, COAL COUNTRY, is a dramatic look at modern coal mining. We get to know working miners along with activists who are battling coal companies in Appalachia. We hear from miners and coal company officials, who are concerned about jobs and the economy and believe they are acting responsibly in bringing power to the American people. Both sides in this conflict claim that history is on their side.
But what are the real issues re: energy. We need to understand the meaning behind promises of “cheap energy” and “clean coal.” Are they achievable? At what cost? And what are the true alternatives for our energy future?
FIND OUT HOW YOU CAN GET INVOLVED IN A POSITIVE, LOCAL ENERGY FUTURE! JOIN US in an open discussion on building a bridge to a clean energy future: solar, wind, geothermal, local Community Supported Energy collectives, and more.
Come learn about the campaign by THE SIERRA CLUB, in partnership with COOLMOM.ORG, to put pressure on Governor Gregoire to close the TransAlta Coal Power Plant in Chehalis. This plant produces 20% of Washington's electricity and is our state’s single biggest source of carbon dioxide, mercury and nitrogen oxide emissions.
A TRANSITION FOCUS ON ENERGY - PART 2 will be on Friday, May 11
Download flyers here: Color B&W - Please help us get the word out! Thanks!
More information at:
Sustainable Wallingford: http://greenwallingford.ning.com/
Transition Seattle: http://transitionseattle.com/
CoolMom: http://www.coolmom.org/coalfreeWA
The Sierra Club : www.coalfreewashington.org
Earth Ministry: http://earthministry.org/
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted)

Friday, April 2, 2010, 7:00 to 9:30 PM
Film: "SHOVELING WATER: WAR ON DRUGS, WAR ON PEOPLE" (24 min, WFP, 2009)
With representatives from WITNESS FOR PEACE,
And A Report Back From Recent Colombia Delegations
“SHOVELING WATER” is a journey to the heart of coca country in Colombia where U.S. tax dollars have financed chemical spraying of the Amazon for the past nine years in the ‘War On Drugs’.
Hear first hand testimony from people on the ground about the impacts and learn new ideas about how to solve this deadly problem.  
PLUS A SHORT FEATURE (13 min) examining extrajudicial killings at the hands of the U.S.-funded Colombian military.  Since 2000, the U.S. government has provided nearly $5 billion in military and police funding to Colombia. Despite claims of an improved human rights record, thousands of civilians have been killed by this U.S.-funded military in recent years. Typical of human rights abuses in Colombia, there are astoundingly high rates of impunity for these killings.
DISPLACEMENT IN COLOMBIA: With nearly five million Colombians forcibly displaced from their homes by a debilitating war, Colombia is now the second worst internal displacement crisis in the world.  Between now and April 30, tens of thousands across the U.S. and Colombia will participate in this year’s National Days of Action for Colombia to call for a much-needed shift in U.S. policies toward the war-torn country. 
NATIONAL DAYS OF ACTION FOR COLOMBIA: Forty displaced Colombians have shared with us their powerful photos and harrowing stories of what it means to be displaced.  Student, church, and community groups are coming together as part of the National Days of Action for Colombia to assemble the photos and statements into poignant portraits.
REGIONAL ORGANIZER, COLETTE COSNER, will facilitate a "FACE THE DISPLACED" gathering at Meaningful Movies, and attendees will take part in the creation of these powerful displays to be displaced later this month.
For more information on what Witness for Peace is doing, and how to get involved, please go to: www.witnessforpeace.org/northwest
Join us for a discussion with WFP on the real story in Colombia.
Download the Flyer: Color or B&W. Please help us get the word out. Thanks!
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, March 26, 2010, 7:00 to 9:30 PM
Film: "HAITI: KILLING THE DREAM"
(52 min, Babeth,Katherine Kean, Hart Perry, & Rudy Stern, 1993)
Also featured will be a recent segment from Democracy Now! that showcases the film and discusses the current situation.
The film starts with a background on Haiti's tragic history from the original Slave uprising in 1791 and focuses on the election of President Jean Bertrand Aristide and subsequent military coup of September 30, 1991 under suspicion of U.S. involvement. The program is narrated by Ossie Davis and along with local scenery and music includes interviews with the exiled Aristide, his cabinet, dissident clergy, underground resistance leaders, U.S. State Department officials, and a cross-section of Haitian people. 
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted)

Friday, March 19, 2010, 6:30 to 9:30 PM
Film: “JANG AUR AMAN” (WAR AND PEACE)
(Anand Patwardhan, 2002) - Doors open at 6:30PM with delicious homemade food from India and Pakistan. Film starts at 7.
Our guests this evening are Prashant Nema, Srijan Chakraborty, Srinivas Akula, Rajeswari Harikrishnan from India, and Mona Akmal from Pakistan. Mona is the cocreator of Dreamfly, a non-profit organization that builds schools in Pakistan, Afghanistan and India.

JANG AUR AMAN begins and ends with the ideas of Mahatma Gandhi. While exposing the danger of nuclear war on the Indian subcontinent it derives power and emotional appeal from the growing movement for peace both in India and in Pakistan.
"The film itself is a tour de force, beautifully shot and often darkly funny and much more riveting than the dry subject matter might suggest."
-The Guardian, UK
"War and Peace" has a riveting intelligence all its own and earns its epic title. -The New York Times
“We should listen to our voices of dissent for our own sake and for the sake of our children and their children. War and Peace is that voiceʼs most eloquent expression. Which is why it should be seen by everyone everywhere. In schools, in colleges, in factories, on television”
-The Times of India
"Perhaps the most important film in this year's Berlin Film Festival" -Reuters

A LITTLE ABOUT THE FILMMAKER, ANAND PATWARDHAN...
“To put it simply, Patwardhan, who turns sixty this February, is India's best-known and most respected documentary filmmaker. It has taken him an acute intelligence, an exceptional social conscience and more than three decades of solid hard work on several fronts to reach that position. But he is admired across the subcontinent and beyond also as a fearless and indefatigable activist; a whistle-blower who spends a large part of his time writing and speaking and organizing protest. -- Vidyarthy Chatterjee IMDb February 2010
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More on the film and filmmaker: Here
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted)

Friday, March 12, 2010, 7:00 to 9:30 PM
“TRANSITION FRIDAY”!
Film: "IN TRANSITION 1.0 - FROM OIL DEPENDENCE TO LOCAL RESILIENCE" (49 min, Emma Goude, 2009), and a few short films
…WITH LEO BRODIE FROM TRANSITION SEATTLE, AND CATHY TUTTLE FROM SUSTAINABLE WALLINGFORD. 
“TRANSITION FRIDAYS”: COME JOIN US FOR AN EVENING FOCUSED ON POSITIVE SOLUTIONS AT A VERY LOCAL LEVEL - EVERY 2ND FRIDAY!   
IN TRANSITION is the first detailed film about the Transition movement filmed by those that know it best, those who are making it happen on the ground. The Transition movement is about communities around the world responding to peak oil and climate change with creativity, imagination and humor, and setting about rebuilding their local economies and communities.  It is positive, solutions focused, viral and fun.
We live at a fascinating point in history. The convergence of challenges, most particularly global warming and peak oil, have brought us to a point where we are profoundly challenged to act. The scale of the challenge is huge, and the obstacles are plenty.  But something very powerful is stirring and is taking root the world over.  There is an emerging energy to succeed, a sense of quickening, and an exhilaration in talking and listening to each other once again, to visioning what we want and then rolling up our sleeves and starting to co-create it. People are choosing life and are manifesting that in their lives and their communities.
Facilitated discussion on the Transition Initiative forllowing the film.
Download the Flyer HERE! (Black & White HERE)
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted

Friday, March 5, 2010, 7:00 to 9:30 PM
Film: “ON PAPER WINGS” (67 min, Ilana Sol, , 2008)
...With the Filmmaker, ILANA SOL!
In the spring of 1945, a Japanese balloon bomb claimed the lives of the only people killed on the continental U.S. as the result of enemy action during WWII. Forty years later, the decision to fold a thousand paper cranes would unite the Japanese and American civilians who were involved in and affected by this incident. “On Paper Wings“ is the story of four Japanese women who worked on balloon bombs, the families of those killed in the U.S., and the man whose actions brought them all together forty years after WWII, and the balloon bomb project.
jOIN US FOR A FASCINATING DISCUSSION FOLLOWING THE FILM!
Download the Flyer HERE!
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted)

Sunday, FEBRUARY 14, 2:00 to 4:00 PM
Followup Special Event To Start: SENIOR COHOUSING, AND OTHER OPTIONS FOR AGING IN YOUR COMMUNITY - STUDY SESSION #1 BEGINS
LOCATION: Northeast Library, 35th Ave NE & NE 68th Street, Seattle
INTRODUCTION WAS HELD JANUARY 31st. BUT YOU CAN STILL JOIN THE FIRST WORK SESSION. THIS WILL CONTINUE EVERY 2 WEEKS FOR A TOTAL OF 10 SESSIONS. ...Please Come Join Us!
Envision your future lifestyle; discover the right solution for you!  Join this newly formed, self-directed study group for ongoing exploration and discussion. FREE!  Presented by: SEATTLE AIC.  
Study Sessions Include:
SESSION ONE: What is your Aging Scenario? - Are we in denial? - Sun, Feb14
SESSION TWO: Group Process: Working Together - Sun, Feb 28
SESSION THREE: The Realities of Getting Older - Sun, Mar 14
SESSION FOUR: Co-care and Outside Care - Sun, Mar 28
SESSION FIVE: Staying Healthy through Community - To Be Scheduled
SESSION SIX: The Economics of Getting Older
SESSION SEVEN: Philosophy, Spirituality, and Mortality
SESSION EIGHT: What do we have to offer the world? Growing into elderhood.
SESSION NINE: Risk and Responsibility
SESSION TEN: Case studies, fieldtrips: Looking at Communities
SEATTLE AGING IN COMMUNITY is an independent group of Seattle area individuals exploring possibilities for active, enriching community based aging.  
Download the flyer HERE
For More Info: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SeattleAIC

SESSION 1 STARTS
FEB 14th

Friday, January 22, 2009, 7:00 to 9:30 PM
Film: “MAGGIE GROWLS”
(56 min, Barbara Attie and Janet Goldwater, 2003)
“Speak your mind - even if your voice shakes, for well aimed slingshots can topple giants.”  - Maggie Kuhn.
MAGGIE GROWLS is a documentary film portrait of the amazing, canny, lusty, charming and unstoppable Maggie Kuhn (1905-1995), who founded the Gray Panthers in 1970 after being forced to retire from a job she loved. Her outrage and determination fueled a political chain reaction that forever changed the lives of older Americans, repealing mandatory retirement laws and proving that "old" is not a dirty word.
With a disarming mixture of humor, shock value and common sense, Maggie went on to champion universal health care, nursing home reform, shared housing and consumer protection.  Out of what political activist Ralph Nader called "the most significant retirement in modern American history," Maggie created one of the most potent social movements of the century - one that was committed to justice, peace and fairness to all, regardless of age.
Join us following the film for a community discussion on active, vivacious aging; intergenerational connections and future living options such as Co-Housing: both Senior & Intergenerational.
download the flyer HERE!
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted