The Butterfly Effect Film Screening + Discussion
Independent filmmaker Deb Wallwork’s 2016 film The Butterfly Effect is a documentary film about hope, beauty, transformation and resilience. It presents stories from a variety of people, artists, teachers, farmers, Native Americans, and wildlife ecologists, who are concerned about the dwindling population of an important pollinator: the monarch butterfly. The film interweaves personal narrative, experimental film, and animation with the inspiring stories of those determined to change the world one milkweed at a time. Join us the week of Earth Day for a screening of this film and discussion with the filmmaker.
Free and open to the public
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