Permaculture Film’s Ithaca Premier Features Local Author & Farmers, April 9th

April 9th, 2015 at 7 p.m.

Cinemapolis
120 E. Green Street, Ithaca, NY 14850

GET YOUR TICKETS ONLINE: http://8137.formovietickets.com/T.ASP?WCI=BT&Page=PickTickets&SHOWID=10932

WATCH “INHABIT” FILM TRAILER: http://fingerlakespermaculture.org/?p=3495

Ten years ago in the Northeast one could barely find a permaculture class, much less a site that demonstrated permaculture principles and techniques in action. Today there is a very different story emerging, and examples abound of permaculture applied to farms, gardens, urban environments, social systems, and more.

In 2013, filmmakers Costa Boutsikaris and Emmett Brennan took a journey around the northeast and midwest U.S. and combined their eye for beauty with their passionate interest in permaculture to create a feature length documentary: INHABIT.

The film presents a vast array of projects, concepts, and people translating the diversity of permaculture expressions into a message easily understood by an equally diverse audience. To those familiar with permaculture, it will be a call to action and a glimpse into what’s possible; what kind of projects and solutions are already underway. For those unfamiliar, it will be an introduction to a new way of being and a new way of relating to the Earth. For everyone, it will be a reminder that humans are capable of being planetary healing forces.

INHABIT will be screening at the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF) in Ithaca, New York on Thursday, April 9th. The FLEFF Festival embraces and interrogates sustainability across all of its forms: economic, social, ecological, political, cultural, technological, and aesthetic. This year their theme is HABITATS. “Environments inhabited by animals, plants, organisms, minerals, fungi, bacteria. Terrains, waters, atmospheres defined by layers, relationships, and complexities surrounding the human and the nonhuman. Ecological systems offering sustenance and life.”

The event is co-sponsored by the Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute (FLPCI) and includes a segment with their cofounder Steve Gabriel, who maintains Wellspring Forest Farm alongside his wife Elizabeth in Mecklenburg NY, where they produce maple syrup, mushrooms, and raise ducks and sheep, while seeking to restore the landscape to a healthy state. Steve–along with Ken Mudge of Cornell University–is also the author of “Farming the Woods” a book recently published by Chelsea Green Press. After the film, join them along with Director Costa Boutsikaris and FLPCI Board Member Becky Sims for a post film discussion about permaculture and related projects and events in the Finger Lakes Region.

PUT YOUR LOCAL PROJECT IN OUR
FINGER LAKES PERMACULTURE DIRECTORY: http://fingerlakespermaculture.org/?p=3495

FACEBOOK EVENT LISTING: https://www.facebook.com/events/736565323117983/

WELLSPRING FOREST FARM: http://wellspringforestfarm.blogspot.com/

Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF): http://www.ithaca.edu/fleff/

Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute (FLPCI): http://fingerlakespermaculture.org

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