Earth Lounge @ Park City
As devastating fires sweep through Los Angeles, our hearts are with everyone experiencing profound loss. We ask our Sundance community to donate to our fundraiser to support communities impacted by the Los Angeles wildfires. While attendance at Earth Lounge is free, we're encouraging optional donations that will go entirely to verified LA fire relief efforts. An optional donation ticket is included on the registration form.
Join us at Earth Lounge — Park City’s first-ever climate-centered day of programming on Friday, January 24th, from 1-8 PM at The Impact Lounge.
A programming collaboration between Hollywood Climate Summit, The Redford Center, Sustainable Entertainment Alliance, Doris Duke Foundation, Common Ground, Maker’s Mark, NBCUniversal, Pop Culture Collaborative, Good Energy, Guayaki Yerba Mate, and Project Dandelion. Hosted at The Impact Lounge.
We'll have interactive programming with creatives and thought leaders, stand-up comedy, musical performances, an alt-dairy coffee bar, and vegan eats all day long.
Food and beverages donated by Open Water, Guayaki Yerba Mate, and Chunk
Hosted by Esteban Gast (Climate Comedian in Residence, Generation 180)
Earth Lounge is a space to learn about climate as well as activate the unique power and opportunity of the creative community to advance climate consciousness and resilience. Whether you're a long-time climate advocate, new to climate, or processing recent climate grief in real-time, this is a space for you.
FULL SCHEDULE
🚪 1:00PM Doors open
— Food: Passion Flour Vegan Patisserie
👀 1:30PM All Connected: Where Climate, Culture, & Art Meet
Creatives speak to how they are bringing courage and nuance around real world issues into their work even if not explicitly in the content but in their approach to creative and production. This conversation will ultimately reflect on how every issue connects with climate and the opportunity we have as a creative community.
Speakers: Jenny Yang (TV Writer, Stand-Up Comedian), W. Kamau Bell (Comedian), Tonatiuh (Actor, Kiss of the Spider Woman), moderated by Allison Begalman (co-founder, Hollywood Climate Summit).
🎭 2:15PM Stories as Solutions: Answering The Call to Support Environmental Films
Led by The Redford Center
Speakers: Jill Tidman (Executive Director, The Redford Center); Reverend Yearwood (President & CEO Hip Hop Caucus), Doron Weber (Vice President and Program Director, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation), Angela Peoples (Director of True History Narratives Pop Culture Collaborative), Emmy award-winning documentary filmmaker Eric Bendick (Film Director, Path of the Panther) will moderate.
Join us to hear about the work and learnings of funders driving environmental progress by advocating and scaling resources for filmmakers to create compelling climate and environmental narrative change. Together, we'll reflect on film's resounding and transformative impact potential as a tool to move people into real-world action.
— Food: BUDS Sandwich Shop
🎥 3:15PM Wildfires: Rebuilding & Community Resilience
Led by Hollywood Climate Summit
Speakers: Favianna Rodriguez (President, The Center for Cultural Power), Rae Oquirrh Dial (Executive Director, Unthinkable), Jaie Peshawaria (Director of Operations, Walkgood LA), Roni Jo Draper, Ph.D. (Yurok)
Description: As wildfires impact communities across Los Angeles and beyond, this timely program brings together storytellers, community leaders, and industry professionals to explore how we rebuild and care for one another in the face of climate-driven disasters. Through candid conversations and shared experiences, we'll examine the entertainment industry's unique role in documenting loss, amplifying community voices, and fostering collective resilience. Join us as we discuss how storytelling can help preserve cultural heritage, bridge resource gaps, and strengthen connections between affected communities.
🌲4:00PM: Nature is Giving Main Character Energy
Led by Doris Duke Foundation
Speakers: Kaitlin Yarnall (Chief Storytelling Officer National Geographic Society), Sacha Spector Ph.D. (Director, Environment Program, Doris Duke Foundation), Loren Waters (Director, Tiger), Sierra Falconer (Director, Sunfish)
Description: One of the biggest opportunities we have in facing climate change is to redefine our relationship to nature and imagine an irresistible future that centers nature and sustainability in our lives, entertainment, and values. Hear from leading groups working to preserve nature in our world and in our stories. Films centering on nature and our relationship with it are receiving critical acclaim, engaging vast audiences, and achieving commercial success.
🌻 5:00PM: Building Climate Resilience With Regeneration
Led by Common Ground, Maker’s Mark, and Guayaki Yerba Mate
Speakers: Josh Tickell (Director, Common Ground); Pat Mitchell (Co-Founder & Managing Director, Project Dandelion, Co-Founder and Editorial Director of TEDWomen); Laura Turner Seydel (Director, Turner Foundation), Amanda Humphrey (StarHill Farm Advocacy & Experience Manager, Makers Mark), Ben Mand (CEO, Guayaki Yerba Mate), Tom Cosgrove (Chief Creative & Content Officer, Earthday.org)
As consumer demand for climate-positive stories, products and regenerative agriculture continues to surge across markets, this conversation explores how visual storytelling can bring viewers and customers into a vital conversation about transforming our relationship with Earth's living systems. This dynamic discussion delves into how innovative communities and companies worldwide are moving beyond sustainability to embrace regenerative practices that actively restore ecosystems while strengthening climate resilience.
🪩 6:00PM: Hollywood + Climate Mixer
(Must request to attend to receive an invite to our after-hours event, details will be sent separately.)
Earth Lounge’s closing activation is led by Sustainable Entertainment Alliance and Good Energy
Featuring...
🥩 🍨 Plant-based steak and ice cream bar
🎉 Networking and good vibes