Oh my. It’s really happening. Thursday before the beaver festival.
The Beaver Believers is a story of passion and perseverance in the face of climate change. It follows an unlikely cadre of activists – a biologist, a hydrologist, a botanist, a psychologist, and a hairdresser – who share a common vision: restoring the North American Beaver, that most industrious, ingenious, furry little engineer, to the watersheds of the American West. The Beaver Believers encourage us to embrace a new paradigm for managing our western lands, one that seeks to partner with the natural world rather than overpower it. As a keystone species, beaver enrich their ecosystems, creating the biodiversity, complexity, and resiliency our watersheds need to adapt to climate change. Beavers can show us the way and even do much of the work for us, if only we can find the humility to trust in the restorative power of nature and our own ability to play a positive role within it.
The filmmaker posted this yesterday on facebook
Bay Area friends! We’re excited to announce the California premiere screening of The Beaver Believers in conjunction with the annual martinezbeavers.org/wordpress #MartinezBeaverFestival, at the Empress Theatre in Vallejo! *AND* we’ll be joined by two of the film’s leading characters, Heidi Perryman and Suzanne Fouty, as well as author Ben Goldfarb, who’s on tour promoting his new book #Eager, for a Q&A after the screening. Tickets on sale now!
You might remember in 2013 the film crew from Whitman College was at the beaver festival. Well now you know why. You don’t want to miss the west coast premiere do you? You can by your tickets online and meet the filmmaker in person at the Empress theatre in Vallejo. It’s a beautifully refurbished old theater in one of the most lovely historic streets in Valleho that will be an honor to see – doing beavers proud.
Come!
