[Scpg] CORRECTION/The ECONOMICS of HAPPINESS Fri. March 11 7pm at the Center of the Heart in Santa Barbara

[Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network]

The Economics of Happiness (in Santa Barbara)

HopeDance FiLMs and Center of the Heart presents

The ECONOMICS of HAPPINESS

FiLM & Discussion

Fri March 11 7pm at the Center of the Heart in Santa Barbara

487 N. Turnpike Road
Santa Barbara, CA 93111

Trailer: 
<http://www.hopedance.org/community-media/videos/722> 
http://www.hopedance.org/community-media/videos/722

Cosponsored by Santa Barbara Permaculture 
Network, Slow Food Santa Barbara, SB Wellness 
Directory, Suburban Homesteader, Fairview 
Gardens, Evolver Santa Barbara, Transition Santa 
Barbara, and others TBA...

See the interview with the filmmaker at: 
<http://www.hopedance.org/home/food-news/1948> 
http://www.hopedance.org/home/food-news/1948


From: ISEC:

We're amazed at the response to the North 
American launch of The Economics of Happiness


At the U.S. premiere in Seattle, Washington, 350 
people crowded into the Town Hall – as many as 
the hall could hold - despite an impending 
snow-storm that could have cancelled the event.

At the Berkeley, California, launch, people 
queued up around the block, and we filled not 
only the main theater but an “overflow” room as 
well.  We immediately arranged a second screening 
in San Francisco a few nights later, which also 
sold out.

In Portland, Oregon, we packed a venue to 
capacity that held 850 – the organizers said that 
they had never seen that kind of response to an 
event there before.

In Toronto, Ontario, without much publicity, 
again the auditorium was filled to capacity.

And in New York City, a series of snowstorms had 
all but paralyzed the city in the days leading up 
to our launch at the Great Hall at Cooper Union. 
The day of the screening, Cooper Union announced 
it was shutting down because of the snow, then 
later announced that the Great Hall would remain 
open for the screening.  Despite it all, more 
than 600 showed up.

With the North American launch a wonderful 
success, the film then moved on to Europe, with 
packed houses in Ireland, Norway and England.

The film is reaching beyond "the choir." At every 
screening, response to the film was 
enthusiastically positive. Even at the Siskiyou 
Film Festival in Grants Pass, Oregon – where no 
one had heard of the film before the screening – 
the organizers decided to do a second run 
because, in their words, “it was, to say the 
least, a hit.”

Coming up are launches in New Delhi, Bangkok, and 
Tokyo, followed by a screening at the Green Film 
Festival in Seoul, South Korea.

Join the growing number of people who are 
organizing screenings in their own communities. 
To cosponsor the screening in SLO and Santa 
Barbara, contact us at 
<mailto:bob.banner at gmail.com>bob.banner at gmail.com 
.


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