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HopeDance FiLMs presents

FiLM & Speaking Engagement 

Monday, December 29, 7pm at Dancing Deer

2975 Vineyard Dr., Templeton (or click HERE)

“Consume This Movie” along with Cecile Andrews, 

author of “Slow Is Beautiful” & “The Circle of Simplicity”

 Are Americans too materialistic? Are we willfully trashing the planetary ecology in order to serve the desires and drives of the ego? And what, or who could be driving this powerful force of seduction? Consume This Movie takes a critical look at social injustice, peak oil, resource depletion and our deep need to feel connected to each other through what we choose to consume. This 80 minute documentary also examines the frenzied pace of fast-lane materialism that is beginning to burn us out. We Americans are just now beginning to yearn for a simpler life, but is it too late? Have we set in motion a runaway train that threatens to undermine the ecological, social and spiritual cornerstones that make the pursuit of happiness possible in the first place? Walk, don’t drive to see this powerful documentary film, while supplies last!

Woven into this exploration are interviews with Dr. Peter Whybrow, American Mania, Juliet B. Schor, The Overspent American, simplicity guru’s Cecile Andrews and Duane Elgin, photographic artist Chris Jordan, advertising expert James. B. Twitchell and Post Carbon Institutes Julian Darley among others.

The discussion after the film will be about Solutions: Transition Towns as well as the Phinney EcoVillage Neighborhood. Cecile is the founder of the Phinney Ecovillage, a project to build Sustainability and Community in her North Seattle Neighborhood. For information, go to www.phinneyecovillage.net.

She has been a visiting scholar at Stanford University where she received her doctorate in education, and an affiliated scholar with Seattle University. A former community college administrator, she now works with community groups to explore the issue of living more simply: how to live lives that are sustainable, just, and joyful.

She is director of The Simplicity Circles Project with Seeds of Simplicity and a member of the steering committee of The Simplicity Forum. For Transition folks, she is at http://transitioncalifornia.ning.com/profile/CecileAndrews. Her website is http://www.cecileandrews.com.

She lives in Seattle Washington with her husband, former technology writer and blogger Paul Andrews. 

View the Trailer at

http://www.consumethismovie.com/files/preview.html

HopeDance FiLMs presents

www.hopedance.org / 369-0203

BYOB / Wine with desserts plus a $5 Donation.