Earth Day Screening with CFF & WE ACT For Environmental Justice
Join us for an Earth Day Event at Maysles Documentary Center, co-hosted by CFF and WE ACT for Environmental Justice! 🎥 We'll dive into extreme heat solutions through powerful films, followed by an expert-led talkback and Q&A. 🌡️✨
About the films:
Weathered: The Heat is On (2024, dir. Trip Jennings)
Host Maiya May explores the most deadly kind of weather, heat, in an unlikely place: Portland, Oregon. She revisits the 2021 heat dome, one of the most anomalous weather events recorded on earth. In order to understand why some urban areas are hotter than others, she travels to Medellín, Colombia. Then she visits the hottest city in the US, Phoenix, Arizona, to see how we can turn the temperature down.
Green Spaces Fight Climate Change in Cities (2022, dir. Meghan McDonough)
The Southside of Williamsburg in New York City's Brooklyn borough lacks green space, putting its residents at increased risk of the negative impacts of climate change, from flooding to air pollution. NBCLX contributor Meghan McDonough speaks with activists in the community fighting for environmental justice.
Featuring insights from:
🌱 Emily Louise Walker of Natural Areas Conservancy
🧊 Jocelyn R. of New York City Emergency Management Department (NYCEM) Cooling Center Program
🏙️ Julia Eiferman of the NYC Mayor's Office of Climate & Environmental Justice
Moderated by Caleb Smith from WE ACT for Environmental Justice.
📅 April 22, 2025 Earth Day; doors open with refreshments at 6PM, program begins at 6:30PM
📍 Maysles Documentary Center, 343 Lenox Ave, Harlem, NYC
Don't miss this vital conversation for climate resilience!