Earth Week: Choose Your Own Disaster II - Re-adventuring through Hollywood’s attempts to tackle climate change

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You've heard of Earth Day, the annual event marked by more than a billion people every as a day of action to support environmental protection. But have you heard of Earth Week?!? Join CitySpace from April 23-26 for conversations, performances and more focused on celebrating and protecting our planet.

Due to popular demand, we're hosting a sequel to last year's blockbuster Earth Week event!

Hollywood is full of big screen metaphors and on-the-nose cliches about climate change. And it turns out audiences love a disaster flick, from world-ending meteor strikes to the next ice age or even the mysterious switching of the planet’s polarity.

But IN A WORLD… where we actually need to talk about the real issues we’re facing, can disaster movies help? Join Endless Thread co-hosts Ben Brock Johnson and Amory Sivertson for a night of absurdity, fun and some real discussion of what our blockbuster movie industry has gotten wrong—and right—about the greatest existential threat humanity has ever faced.

You will have the power to choose which decisions we make to stop a world-ending climate threat inspired by scenes from our favorite disaster films. Along the way, we’ll check in with a panel of experts who will help us understand if any of these events could ever happen and, if so, how we can navigate the real future.

Panelists
Pamela Templer — professor and chair of biology at Boston University
Kasha Patel — science writer, stand-up comedian and deputy weather editor, Washington Post
Kaighin A. McColl — Assistant Prof. of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science and Engineering, Harvard

CitySpace Tickets
Premiere: $25.00 (includes reserved seating in the front of the theater)
General: $15.00
Student: $5.00 (must present a valid student ID upon arrival)

Ways To Save
WBUR’s Legacy Circle, Murrow Society, Sustainers and Members save $5.00 on in-person tickets to this event.To apply the discount to your ticket purchase online, you’ll need to enter a promo code. You can get your code by emailing membership@wbur.org.

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