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Tuesday August 6th 7PM-9PM, door at 6:30PM, Sliding Scale $0-20
Melrose UU Climate Action Team, Friends of NEMT Forest and The Urban Biodiversity Project together host award winning filmmaker, Boston Globe writer and BU Professor of Journalism David Abel for a showing of Inundation District (2023). This film is about climate change in Boston focusing on the rising tide in Boston's Seaport District produced by David Abel, Ted Blanco, and the Boston Globe.
Location: 70 W. Emerson St, Melrose Unitarian Universalist Church
INUNDATION DISTRICT is a feature-length film about the implications of one city's decision to ignore the threats posed by climate change and spend billions of dollars on building a new waterfront district on landfill, at sea level.
In a time of rising seas and intensifying storms, one of the world's wealthiest, most-educated cities made a fateful decision to spend billions of dollars erecting a new district along its coast on landfill, at sea level. Unlike other places imperiled by climate change, this neighborhood of glass towers housing some of the worlds largest companies was built well after scientists began warning of the threats, including many at its renowned universities. The city, which already has more high-tide flooding than nearly any other in the United States, called its new quarter the Innovation District. But with seas rising inexorably, and at an accelerating rate, others are calling the neighborhood by a different name: Inundation District.
The 79-minute film, a production by The Boston Globe, premiered in the fall of 2023 as the closing night film of the GlobeDocs Film Festival.
Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmGyZdx_QDI
www.inundationdistrict.com
David Abel Filmmaker on IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7246359/
Handicap Accessible. $0-20 Sliding scale benefits The Urban Biodiversity Project and Friends of NEMT Forest, Pay what you can $15-20 suggested, kids free under 12.
Light refreshments will be available.
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LocationMelrose Unitarian Universalist Church (View)
70 West Emerson St
Melrose, MA 02176
United States
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| Kid Friendly: Yes! |
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| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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There is a handicapped ramp to get inside and then inside is all one level and the bathroom is ADA compliant.
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