Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Naathai
Thursday, January 19
7:00 pm
JANUARY SCREENING SITE:
The Miami Beach Botanical Garden
2000 Convention Center Drive, Miami Beach, Fl, 33139
The Miami Beach Botanical Garden, in partnership with ECOMB, will host ECOMB’s January Cinema Green film with the screening of Taking Root, an 80-minute film by Lisa Merton and Alan Dater that tells the dramatic story of Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai whose simple act of planting trees grew into a nationwide movement to safeguard the environment, protect human rights and defend democracy.
Q & A
John Oldenburg, City of Miami Beach Assistant Director of Parks and Miami-Dade County Community Image Advisory Board Chairman of the Tree Subcommittee, will introduce the film and speak about the Million Trees Miami Initiative.
Tickets are $10 at the door, $7 for members of sponsoring organizations: ECOMB (Environmental Coalition of Miami and Beaches), GTAG (Greenspace/Tree Advisory Group), and the Green Book Club.
