Monday, November 29, 2021

Free Screening of Contagion with Panel Discussion, December 11 at 3pm

We are excited to announce that The Elements: An Annual Environmental Film Series, is starting up again with a special Saturday afternoon screening and panel discussion!  

Contagion will be the featured film, followed by a discussion highlighting the connection between environmental disturbance and pandemics, as well as technological and historical perspectives, with Wesleyan professors Fred Cohan, Ishita Mukerji, and William Johnston. The event will take place on Saturday, December 11, 2021 at 3pm, at the Goldsmith Family Cinema at Wesleyan University. The cinema is located at 301 Washington Terrace, Middletown, CT.  

As always, the film is open to the public and free of charge. Wesleyan is a vaccinated campus and full vaccination is required to attend. In addition, masks must be worn in all indoor spaces.  Please preregister at ctrivercoastal@conservect.org, and complete this form prior to attending.

We hope you can join us for our first film in almost two years! For more information, phone the Conservation District office at 860-346-3282.

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The Elements: An Annual Environmental Film Series was begun in 2015. The series is co-sponsored by the Connecticut River Coastal Conservation District, Middlesex Community College, Middletown Garden Club, The Rockfall Foundation, and Wesleyan University's Center for the Arts, College of the Environment, and College of Film and the Moving Image.  Contagion is the 22nd film in the series. Previous films include: Elemental, Watershed, Dirt! The Movie, Chasing Ice, The End of the Line, The True Cost, Dukale's DreamXmas Without China, Merchants of Doubt, Racing to Zero, Forgotten Farms, A Plastic Ocean, Just Eat It, Comfort Zone, Sacred Cod, Death By Design, Growing Cities, Anthropocene The Human Element, Ice on Fire and Artifishal.

 


 

 

 

 

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