Join the Lowell Green Building Commission and the Lowell Film Collaborative for their 4th Annual Outdoor Bike-In Film Screening at Shedd Park Pavilion and see the multi-award winning YERT (Your Environmental Road Trip), a groundbreaking adventure and celebration of the American spirit in the face of adversity! This thought-provoking, inspiring, and (most importantly) hilarious documentary showcases the courageous and creative individuals, groups, businesses, and leaders across the U.S. who are tackling the greatest environmental threats in history. Called into action by the ever-increasing threats of planetary catastrophe (from climate change to toxic pollution, from water scarcity to habitat destruction), our three heroes — Mark Dixon, Ben Evans, and Julie Dingman Evans — upend their lives, pool their collective life-savings, and set off on a first-of-its-kind, 50-state, year-long journey of discovery to personalize sustainability and to answer a critical question: ARE WE DOOMED?
Save the date, tune up those bikes & stay tuned for details! YERT: Your Environmental Road Trip (2011) Wednesday, June 11 @ 7PM Shedd Park Pavilion Rogers Street (Rt. 38), Lowell
The Lowell Green Building Commission & the Lowell Film Collaborative present
Our 2nd Annual Lowell Outdoor Bike-In Film Screening featuring THE APPLE PUSHERS
Wednesday, September 12 6:30PM: Arrival Time/Meet-n-Greet 7PM: Show Time Shedd Park Pavilion, 433 Rogers Street (Rt. 38) Free Admission | Rain or Shine | BYO Chairs
Bring your bikes, bring your lawn chairs, and bring a posse to our SECOND outdoor bike-in film screening at Lowell’s Shedd Park Pavilion!
Narrated by Academy Award nominee Edward Norton, The Apple Pusherscaptures the triumphs and the hardships of courageous immigrants who, under an innovative program, sell fresh produce in food desert neighborhoods where finding a ripe apple is a challenge. Through the lens of their powerful and deeply personal stories, the film examines such hot-button issues as food access, the obesity crisis, immigration, entrepreneurship, and what it really takes to achieve the American dream.
The film is inspired by the NYC Green Cart Initiative, which aims to increase the availability of fresh produce in city neighborhoods by creating opportunities for entrepreneurs to set up micro-businesses. Launched in 2008, the program has become a national model – using mobile vending to reach communities where rates of diabetes, heart disease and obesity are skyrocketing. A unique free-enterprise strategy, this program has launched more than 500 vendors. Catalyzed by the film, other cities are exploring and launching their own mobile-based solutions to bring economic opportunity and fresh produce to communities in need.
(L to R): Actor Ed Norton, Executive Producer Laurie Tisch, Producer/Writer/Director Mary Mazzio, and Producer Tom Scott.
The Apple Pushers stands at the intersection of food access, immigration, and entrepreneurship and features a super-powered filmmaking team at the heart of its success: Producers Mary Mazzio, Tom Scott (founder of Nantucket Nectars and CEO of PLUM TV), Christine Vachon (producer of Mildred Pierce and the Academy Award-winning Boys Don’t Cry), Executive Producer Laurie Tisch of the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund, and award-winning actor Edward Norton, who lends his narrating talents and intense personal passion to the project. As “healthy food” enthusiasts and sustainability supporters, the LFC and the Green Building Commission are PROUD to bring this inspiring documentary film to Lowell, a bourgeoning immigrant city in its OWN right!
The weather is looking terrific for this event — we look forward to seeing you, AND your bicycle!
WANT OUTDOOR MOVIES UNDER THE STARS? LOWELL’S GOT ‘EM!
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SHOWING THIS SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 @ 7:30PM! Kung Fu Panda (2008) With lead roles voiced by Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman & Jackie Chan, Kung Fu Panda was 2008′s highest grossing animated film worldwide and received massive audience acclaim at it’s premiere at the 61st Cannes Film Festival. See this DreamWorks animated feature under the stars at beautiful Tyler Park! Co-presented by the Friends of Tyler Park.
CLICK THE IMAGE BELOW to view the official event flyer!
Think GREEN:Use pedal-power to get to the movies! Bicycles are ALWAYS welcomed at all of our outdoor screenings!
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Thank you to all our audience members for supporting the following FREE outdoor screenings in the Mill City, including this weekend’s showing of Kung Fu Panda at beautiful Tyler Park! We’re so grateful to these event partners for their collaboration!
This event post was originally published on May 26 — we’re bringing it back and keeping it on our home page through JUNE 22, the day of the event. We hope to you at Shedd Park Pavilion TONIGHT – the event will take place RAIN or SHINE!
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RIDING BIKES WITH THE DUTCH Wednesday, June 22 8PM: UMass Lowell Climate Change Film Shorts 8:30PM: RidingBikes With the Dutch feature film Shedd Park Pavilion at Shedd Park 433 Rogers Street (Route 38), Lowell Free admission | BYO lawn chair or blanket
As avid bikers ourselves, the LFC is pretty excited about hosting our first outdoor bike-in film screening! We’re hoping for great weather so that we can all bike over to Shedd Park and enjoy this visually stunning and inspiring documentary film, Riding Bikes with the Dutch. We’re presenting this event as part of Lowell Sustainability Week in partnership with the Lowell Green Building Commission. Some of you may recall that we hosted an outdoor screening at Shedd Park in 2010 with the GBC for The Nature of Cities — it’s a great venue as we are protected from the elements (should it rain) and are in a darkened area for better film viewing as the sun goes down. We’ll kick off the evening with a screening of some Climate Change Film Shorts created by UMass Lowell students in association with UML’s Climate Change Initiative. Inspiring!
About our main feature, taken from DutchinAmerica.com: American filmmaker Michael Bauch fell in love with the Dutch bicycling lifestyle. His film, Riding Bikes with the Dutch, was created while he lived in Amsterdam for a while and premiered in May 2010 at the Bicycle Film Festival in Long Beach, California. The film compares the bicycling culture of Holland with the car-centered lifestyle in Southern California and provides a twist of optimism in the urban seaside location of Long Beach, California. Amsterdam streetscapes & bicycle parking structures and Los Angeles freeways & Long Beach bike paths serve as scenic backdrop for the filmmaker’s dream to create more livable communities here in the United States. In Bauch’s own words: “The first time I stepped off the train in Amsterdam I was literally speechless. As soon as I set foot on the ground I was almost run over by a mob of bikes. I turned to look up and to my amazement there was a 3 level structure dedicated to just parking bicycles. Everyone from three years old to 93 seemed to be tooling around the city on two wheels. This was too much to take in with just my own eyes. I needed to share this with everyone I could and this is why I made my film Riding Bikes with the Dutch.”
As a bike-in screening during Sustainability Week, we encourage anyone who can get to Shedd Park by bike to do so! Get your bike-friendly posse together and ride to the Park en masse — we suggest setting a meeting place beforehand and biking over to the event together in a show of bicycle unity. There’ll be plenty of space for all of us to store our bikes safely during the film. Whether you’re biking or driving, be sure to bring a blanket or chair to sit on — we’ll be watching the film under the pavilion on a concrete surface.
We’ll see you all TONIGHT for a fabulous night of film under the stars. The event will be held rain or shine so feel free to come by car in case of showers. In the meantime, we hope you’ll check out all the GREAT bicycle-friendly events taking place throughout downtown Lowell from June 20-25 during Sustainability Week!
“NO IMPACT MAN“
Tuesday, September 14
6:30 PM: Meet-n-greet
7PM: Film screening
OUTDOORS at the Market Mills Courtyard *
246 Market Street (next to the National Park Visitor Center) Free admission! Free snacks! ________________
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* Please bring your own lawn chairs for the screening & dress for the cool evening air. If inclement weather, screening will be held next door at the National Park Visitor Center Theater.
No Impact Man follows one year in the lives of New York City husband and wife team, Colin Beavan and Michelle Conlin, as they embark on a quite seemingly insane plan: reduce their carbon footprint to almost NIL. How? No electricity. No cars. No product purchases. No TV. A strict diet of locally grown food from farmers’ markets. And much, much more. It’s an experiment brought forth from the mind of Colin, and as we find out, wife Michelle is left to sadly follow. What unfolds may seem simplistic, but it’s made weightier as Colin and Michelle fall further into the depths of their experiment. Life still goes on, even as they wash their laundry in the bathtub, dispose of their fridge and freezer, and light candles in their home every evening.
During their unbelievable “No Impact Year,” Colin and Michelle did the national talk show circuit, kept a daily online blog (which is still active), wrote of book detailing their experience, and looked to friends for support, even as they received ridicule and oftentimes hate mail from the outside world. We encourage you to learn more about The No Impact Man Project!
Just a reminder: September 14 is also State Primary Day — don’t forget to make an impact with your vote. Afterwards, come join us under the stars for this special screening!
Join the Lowell Green Building Commission and the Lowell Film Collaborative for their 4th Annual Outdoor Bike-In Film Screening at Shedd Park Pavilion and see the multi-award winning YERT (Your Environmental Road Trip), a groundbreaking adventure and celebration of the American spirit in the face of adversity! This thought-provoking, inspiring, and (most importantly) hilarious documentary showcases the courageous and creative individuals, groups, businesses, and leaders across the U.S. who are tackling the greatest environmental threats in history. Called into action by the ever-increasing threats of planetary catastrophe (from climate change to toxic pollution, from water scarcity to habitat destruction), our three heroes — Mark Dixon, Ben Evans, and Julie Dingman Evans — upend their lives, pool their collective life-savings, and set off on a first-of-its-kind, 50-state, year-long journey of discovery to personalize sustainability and to answer a critical question: ARE WE DOOMED?
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