The Age of Stupid Screening and Social Gathering

dublin | environment | event notice Thursday April 02, 2009 17:40 by Pepe - Cultivate enquiries at cultivate dot ie 15-19 Essex St West, Temple Bar, Dublin 8 01 674 5773

Join Cultivate during our Convergence Festival for Sustainable Living for this evening of fun

Saturday 25th April | 8pm film followed by gathering til late | €5 donation requested to help pay the screening fee

The new four-year epic from McLibel director Franny Armstrong. Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite stars as a man living alone in the devastated world of 2055, looking at old footage from 2008 and asking: why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance?

Pete as archivist

This screening is part of Convergence 14: Making the Transition to Resilience being held in Dublin, Thurles, and Cloughjordan from the 22nd to the 28th of April 2009.

The Festival includes talks, conferences, workshops, World Cafés and special screening of The Age of Stupid on how we accelerate community responses to the economic downturn, resource depletion and climate change.

Festival schedule found here: http://www.cultivate.ie/learning/powerdown/convergence_....html

Schedule summary:

Powerdown Show Launch
Challenge Europe Showcase
The Be The Change Symposium
Bicycle Friendly Cities Talk
Rethinking the City Conference
A Green New Deal Talk
The Transition Ireland Gathering
Rethinking The Country Conference
Eco -Village Tour
Transition Cloughjordan Briefing
Ecumenical Gathering