During October and November, I participated in two post-screening panels for Regenerating Life.
On Saturday, October 19, the Stuyvesant and Kinderhook Village Climate Smart Taskforces and Kinderhook Library hosted a screening of Regenerating Life at the Stuyvesant, NY Town Hall. I joined a panel with Seamus Donahoe of Rise and Run Gardens, Annabel Roberts-McMichael of Tend & Gather Ecofrestry and Emerson Martin of Woven Stars Farm. The discussion focused on farming with the audience and panel sharing personal experiences and challenges in creating changes in farming practices and the importance of sharing empirical knowledge and encouraging young farmers.
In October and early November, the North Fork Environmental Council (NFEC) in Long Island hosted a series of screenings of Regenerating Life. On November 3rd, I joined NFEC president Mark Haubner via Zoom for the post screening discussion at CAST(Center for Advocacy, Support and Transformation). Mark sent me this follow-up email:
“Thanks for engaging with our attendees. The audience was 100% engaged and interested and a few new initiatives have come out of this screening. The recurrent theme from our audiences was that the film deserves to be brought to the K-12 school sector in our bioregion.We continue to work with Pavan Muntha in Andhra Pradesh, India who works with Vijay Kumar, and the ‘sister farm’ concept is on its way here on the North Fork. We’ve been asked to screen the film again for the Universalist/Unitarian Church in Southold. The combination of hope and action is a powerful one.”
John Feldman, November 2024