Helms Bakery Partners With VisionLA To Screen “Standing on Sacred Ground – Islands of Sanctuary”
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Helms Bakery Partners With VisionLA To Screen “Standing on Sacred Ground – Islands of Sanctuary”
December 7, 2015 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Free
Join us on Monday, December 7th at 7:30pm for the screening of Standing on Sacred Ground – Islands of Sanctuary.
US 2014 56 mins. Directed by Christopher McLeod
Native Hawaiians and Aboriginal Australians resist threats to their sacred places in a growing international movement to defend human rights and protect the environment. In Australias Northern Territory, Aboriginal clans maintain Indigenous Protected Areas and resist the destructive effects of a mining boom. In HawaIi, indigenous ecological and spiritual practices are used to restore the sacred island of Kaho`olawe after 50 years of military use as a bombing range. Featuring Patrick Dodson (Yawuru), Emmett Aluli and Davianna McGregor (Hawaii) and Barry Lopez.
Screening with: Faith Against Fracking
Special Guests Attending: Guests include David Braun, director of Faith Against Fracking, and Kumu Hula instructor Mikilani Young, who will will call in a hula prayer for the earth. Not to be missed!
US 2014 56 mins. Directed by Christopher McLeod
Parking is located at the Free Valet in the lot on Helms Avenue and Venice Boulevard.
The Helms Bakery Festival events run Thursday, December 3rd through Wednesday, December 9th. We hope you join us for a film screening or discussion, enjoy an art installation or theatre performance, or come to all of the events around our campus. The Festival umbrella brings together a collective of artists who have much to share about shaping a better future. For a complete Festival calendar, click here.
About VisionLA
The VisionLA ’15 Climate Action Arts Festival is the first-ever multi-disciplinary arts festival throughout the greater Los Angeles area organized to give artists a voice in the increasingly urgent conversation around climate change, resource use and environmental social justice. The festival is an all-volunteer, grassroots effort organized by artists for artists, and for the Los Angeles community as a whole. This first year, the festival is timed to coincide with the UN’s COP21 Global Climate Conference in Paris, from November 30 through December 11, to raise awareness of this important milestone in the international call for strong carbon emissions standards.