How to Change the World

How to Change the World chronicles the adventures of an eclectic group of young pioneers – Canadian hippie journalists, photographers, musicians, scientists, and American draft dodgers – who set out to stop Richard Nixon’s atomic bomb tests in Amchitka, Alaska, and end up creating the worldwide green movement.

Greenpeace was founded on tight knit, passionate friendships forged in Vancouver in the early 1970s. Together they pioneered a template for environmental activism which mixed daring iconic feats and worldwide media: placing small rubber inflatables between harpooners and whales, blocking ice-breaking sealing ships with their bodies, spraying the pelts of baby seals with dye to make them valueless in the fur market. The group had a prescient understanding of the power of media, knowing that the advent of global mass communications meant that the image had become a more effective tool for change than the strike or the demonstration. But by the summer of 1977, Greenpeace Vancouver was suing Greenpeace San Francisco and the organization had become a victim of its own anarchic roots – saddled with large debts and frequent in-fighting.

Winner: World Doc Jury Award for Editing – 2015 Sundance Film Festival, Best Environmental Documentary – 2016 Sheffield Doc Festival, Top Ten Audience Favorite – 2015 Hot Docs

150 mins / 2015 /  Canada/UK / Not Rated

http://www.theguardian.com/film/video/2015/jul/30/how-to-change-the-world-greenpeace-documentary-trailer-video

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Come early and enjoy the sounds of our “Mighty Wurlitzer” Theatre Pipe Organ.  This fully restored “Voice of the Theater” has over 1,400 pipes plus various percussions which make it capable of a wide assortment of sounds and effects.  It can play almost any kind of music, from hits of the past, to today’s music. Organ music starts 30 minutes prior to the movie.