Free film screening Friday night in NYC, about the life of Rachel Carson, as performed by Kaiulani Lee.
Jay Feldman, of Beyond Pesticides, says "It is a fabulous piece."
The new film A Sense of Wonder is being screened in New York on Friday night. "I just saw it on the big screen for the first time last week in DC.," writes our friend Jay Feldman. "It was fabulous. Kaiulani Lee, the actress, is Rachel Carson in the film and its powerful."
The film is free and open to the public.
New York City: Friday, March 27, 7:30pm Anthology Film Archives Theater, 32 2nd Avenue at E. 2nd Street, New York, NY 10003. (just a block from the F or V train, 2nd Ave. station)
This year’s National Women’s History Month will honor Rachel Carson, the pioneer of the modern environmental movement. Carson’s bestseller Silent Spring led to the banning of the chemical DDT, the creation of the Clean Water Act and the Environmental Protection Agency, and the birth of the organic food movement. Al Gore writes in his foreward to the thirtieth anniversary edition of “Silent Spring,” “Without this book, the environmental movement may never have developed at all.”
March activities celebrating Rachel Carson include 100 nationwide screenings of the newly released film, A Sense of Wonder. The film depicts Rachel Carson in the last year of her life, as she battles cancer and the chemical industry and focuses her final energy on getting her message to Congress and the American people in the wake of publishing Silent Spring. “This film is absolutely remarkable. You cannot walk away unmoved,” stated Bill Moyers.
"Rachel Carson taught us that the natural world and human society are, indeed, interdependent and indivisible, and moreover that we have an obligation as stewards of the environment to safeguard and protect the world around us,” said Senator Olympia Snowe of Maine. “This responsibility has been passed from generation to generation and as such constitutes the cornerstone of her legacy that endures. And in that light, I couldn't be more pleased that Rachel Carson's remarkable story has been adapted for the screen in A Sense of Wonder, so more people may learn about her life and the guiding principles that shaped it and that continue to inspire us all."
A Sense of Wonder stars Broadway, film and television actress Kaiulani Lee. Using Carson’s own words, Lee’s portrait of Carson is historically accurate and powerfully moving. Noted drama critic Christopher Rawson says, “What Lee achieves in barely an hour is something rareshe merges herself with Carson’s spirit.”
Thought you'd be interested. Please spread the word.
And, if you say you're a supporter of the No Spray Coalition, you'll get in for free. (You'll get in for free anyway, but .... ;-)
- Mitchel