FIELD & SCREEN
2012 will be the third year that the Wexner Center for the Arts presents their Field and Screen Film Festival which explores issues surrounding food and the environment. This series is designed to reach a diverse audience of students, educator, scientists and anyone interested in environmental issues. This year Field and Screen will reflect and affirm Puffin West’s Mission to facilitate opportunities of community building as we have been able to bring together the amazing and deeply rooted resources of the Wexner Center for the Arts which kindly extended an offer to the Ohio Environmental Council (OEC) to aid in the collaboration of this important month-long event. PFW has awarded the OEC a Grant to help them coordinate the educational outreach to members of both the WEX and the OEC and this includes a Panel Discussion/Forum on February 10th following the film FORCE OF NATURE which follows the iconic Canadian environmentalist, David Suzuki, as he reveals what events in his life caused him to become perhaps the most eloquent and passionate voice for environmental sanity in the world (93 mins., 35mm) Following the film, local environmental advocates will share their personal stories of what has motivated them to get involved. The panel includes Keith Dimoff, the Executive Director of the Ohio Environmental Council; Kai Landis, who leads sustainability projects through OSU’s Office of Student Life; Mike Minnis, owner and president of Eartha Limited, which promotes and facilitates for service sustainability, Doug Morgan, attorney and bicycling advocate; and Shelly Casto, Director of Education at the Wexner Center and environmental education advocate. Please attend and pass this along. The films in the Field and Screen festival have not been seen in Columbus before. Puffin West’s grant to the Wexner Center for the Arts also specifically helped bring to the screen on Feb 24-25 Letters from the Big Man about an artist/hydrologist who finds herself in Oregon’s Klamath National Forest trying to balance a recent break-up with the politics of deforestation and a burgeoning love with a sasquatch. Instead of playing the premise for laughs, Munch examines the ancient and spiritual beauty of the region and people unaffected by the last ice age. (105 mins., video)
and the beautifully shot Landscapes on the 29th. You can read about these two movies under the TAB Grants Awarded Year. Pass this along please. I am very proud of this collaboration and thank everyone that has been involved. Want all the information go to http://www.wexarts.org/fv/?seriesid=275
February 10th
Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie + Panel Discussion with Environmentalists
February 11th- DOUBLE FEATURE
Milk and the Land proceceded by Kudzy Vine
February 14th
February 17th- DOUBLE FEATURE
February 24-25th
February 29th
