The Commission on the Environment of the Diocese of Northern California and The Church of the Incarnation, Santa Rosa, CA are excited to host a screening of the documentary film The Ants & the Grasshopper on Wednesday evening, April 19 at 6pm Pacific.  The film will be screened in-person at The Church of the Incarnation and  simultaneously broadcast over Zoom. We hope you’ll watch with us.

The powerful film chronicles the dreadful effects of the multi-year drought in Malawi and a brave woman’s efforts to save her village.

Click here to view trailer

Please RSVP for the in-person event to bob.wohlsen@gmail.com

Here is the Zoom information to participate online:

Topic: The Ants and the Grasshopper Screening

Time: Apr 19, 2023 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81516563752?pwd=WTQ3WW91QzFGRUUvRWc1TlZqOUNrUT09

Meeting ID: 815 1656 3752

Passcode: 719100

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More about the film –

Anita Chitaya has a gift; she can help bring abundant food from dead soil, she can make men fight for gender equality, and she can end child hunger in her village. Now, to save her home from extreme weather, she faces her greatest challenge: persuading Americans that climate change is real. Traveling from Malawi to California to the White House, she meets climate skeptics and despairing farmers. Her journey takes her across all the divisions shaping the US, from the rural-urban divide, to schisms of race, class and gender, to the thinking that allows Americans to believe we live on a different planet from everyone else. It will take all her skill and experience to persuade us that we’re all in this together.

This documentary, ten years in the making, weaves together the most urgent themes of our times: climate change, gender and racial inequality, the gaps between the rich and the poor, and the ideas that groups around the world have generated in order to save the planet.