International Human Rights Art Festival Film: Josh Fox’s “How to Let Go of the World and Love All The Things Climate Can’t Change” Josh Fox
About This Show
Shown in two parts, with an intermission to kick off the conversation.
Showing schedule:
5:30-6:30pm: Part 1
6:30-7pm: Intermission / Happy Hour
7-8pm: Part 2
Oscar-nominated director Josh Fox continues his investigation of climate change through stories of communities from 12 countries on 6 continents deeply affected by climate disasters. The film asks what it is that climate can’t destroy, and offers tools for building a more just and sustainable future for human life on Earth.
Josh Fox is best known as the Oscar-nominated, Emmy-winning writer/director of GASLAND Parts I and II. He is internationally recognized as a spokesperson and leader on the issue of fracking and extreme energy development. Josh has toured to over 350 cities giving speeches, lectures and question and answer sessions with his environmental film work. Josh has appeared on the Daily Show, Real Time with Bill Maher, The Keith Olbermann show, PBS Now, CNN, Democracy Now, he has regularly on Chris Hayes’ shows (Up and All In), on The Ed Show, Morning Joe, he has been on CBS and NBC nightly news as well as numerous other TV and radio appearances.
About the Festival
Dixon Place and the Institute of Prophetic Activist Art present: The International Human Rights Art Festival, produced, March 3-5, 2017 at Dixon Place. This is the first human rights art festival in the long and vibrant history of New York City’s cultural scene. The Festival is produced by Tom Block, long-time artist-activist, author of Prophetic Activist Art: Handbook for a Spiritual Revolution, and founder of the Institute of Prophetic Activist Art, an art-activist incubator housed at Dixon Place. Playwright and Director Julia Levine is the Assistant Producer.
The 2017 Festival will involve more than 70 artists presenting 40+ advocacy art events over the weekend, including theatre, visual art, music, dance, installations, workshops, panels, performance, films and KidsFest, to introduce children to the importance of art-advocacy work through hands-on activities. Join us for a weekend of art, advocacy, and celebration, with a happy hour featuring tasty human-rights themed concoctions, human rights trivia, prizes, t-shirts and much more.
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Sunday, March 5 at 5:30pm
Suggested General Admission
$10 at the door
120 minutes, plus intermission
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