PIF'Ed Newsletter April 1, 2010

PLANET IN FOCUS APRIL EVENTS

April is jam-packed with Planet In Focus events! Here’s an update to our calendar!

Kids’ Mixed Greens Screening Series – Sunday, April 4, 2010

Easter Sunday will be a fun filled day at the Gardiner Museum featuring a chocolate egg-hunt, paper crafts and music! Come join us at 2pm for another Kids’ Mixed Greens, free for kids under 12, as we screen the following fantastic films:

Water Detectives by David Springbett (11min)
In Matamoros, Mexico, a severe water shortage led the city to enlist thousands of school children as "Water Detectives" responsible for changing the wasteful attitudes and habits of adults.

Binta and the Great Idea (Binta y la Gran Idea) by Javier Fesser (30 min)
A Senegalese girl, her cousin and her fisherman father have high dreams for their country.

Sunday, April 4th, 2:00 pm Gardiner Museum, 111 Queen's Park Cres. www.gardinermuseum.ca

For further details visit http://www.planetinfocus.org/pif-365/kids-mixed-greens

PIF @ Sprockets – Saturday, April 17, 2010

Planet in Focus is co-presenting Ploddy the Police Car by Ramus A. Sivertsen at Sprockets 2010.

This fun, action packed animated feature carries important environmental messages of conservation. It will be screened at Famous Players, Canada Square at 10:10am.

http://www.sprockets.ca/filmsandschedule/films/ploddythepolicecar/default.aspx

PIF @ Green Living Show – April 23 – 25, 2010

For those of you who haven’t noticed - spring is officially here! In celebration of the beautiful weather be sure to visit the Green Living Show at the Direct Energy Centre, Exhibition Place, Toronto. Plan your Earth Day by dropping by the Planet in Focus booth (#2042) for a chance to win an All-Access Pass to our October festival and copies of Jeff Goodell’s new book How to Cool the Planet: Geoengineering and the Audacious Quest To Fix Earth’s Climate.

To show our appreciation to YOU to our faithful subscribers, Planet in Focus will also be distributing special 2-for-1 tickets to our annual festival October 13-17, 2010. Just mention this email to receive one!

http://www.greenlivingonline.com/torontoshow/

PIF @ This Is Not A Reading Series (TINARS) – Thursday, April 29, 2010
A Planet in Focus co-presentation

Celebrate the release of Jeff Goodell’s new book How to Cool the Planet: Geoengineering and the Audacious Quest To Fix Earth’s Climate. Come and meet the man behind the message as he discusses his personal conversion from being downright critical to actively championing the controversial field of geo-engineering in the quest to redress the effects of global warming.

Jeff Goodell is a contributing editor for Rolling Stone and a frequent contributor to the New York Times Magazine. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Our Story: 77 Hours That Tested Our Friendship and Our Faith. Is he also a filmmaker? Please check back of book

The event will be moderated by Ziya Tong, co-host of the science show Daily Planet. Planet In Focus will be screening short films throughout the evening. 7:30 pm at Innis Town Hall, University of Toronto, 2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto.

For more information check out http://tinars.ca/