Workshop on Protecting the Sea - science, law & campaigns
Wed 22 May 2019 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM AEST
Room 430, Level 5, Building 5 (CB04.05.43), Thomas & Harris St, UTS, 2000
Description
Co-hosted with the Centre for Environmental Sustainability, University of Technology Sydney, & the Environmental Defenders Office (NSW)
*If you arrive late, you can still enter and sit down at the start of each new session.
Schedule TBC - including various sessions about marine science, environmental law & campaigning.
Workshop leaders - Professor of Marine Ecology David Booth, University of Technology Sydney; Jemilah Hallinan, Outreach Director, Environmental Defenders Office (NSW); & Co-Director of The Map to Paradise Danielle Ryan.
About the workshop
No matter who you are, there is a role for you to play in the movement to protect nature. Join us for an evening of discovery and exploration around the topic of 'how to protect the sea' with a shared vision to restore our beautiful underwater paradise and to keep places wild. Gain some insights into the role of marine science and environmental law in the quest to protect the sea. Also, meet some local ocean campaigners and come together to brainstorm solutions and strategies to take back to your workplace or community.
As Italian Marine Biologist, Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara, says in The Map to Paradise, "The laws are a human convention. It’s not a natural thing. It’s not an asteroid about to hit the Earth, or climate changing, or things like that. It’s just agreements among people, and those can be changed."
Tickets to next The Map to Paradise screenings for Sydney - 11 May, 13 May & 15 May - www.themaptoparadise.com/ticke...
Synopsis of The Map to Paradise
From Executive Producer Martin Sheen, THE MAP TO PARADISE is an adventure-filled and spectacularly gorgeous tale about the birth of the global movement to protect the sea. From underwater worlds of ice to glistening coral sanctuaries, discover what it takes to build a movement and to create positive change.
Filmed across six continents, the filmmakers have set out to challenge the mainstream narrative of hard-hitting environmental documentaries with a “doom and gloom” message, and replace it with one of hope and courage. Along the way, we meet a prince, a president, a pirate, and also an island chief — among others — who are all playing a role in the quest to save the planet.
Mixing colourful character-driven stories and hand-rendered animations, THE MAP TO PARADISE is a rare urgent environmental wake-up call that retains a sense of awe and wonder for the kind of beauty that is still possible.
Location
Room 430, Level 5, Building 5 (CB04.05.43), Thomas & Harris St, UTS, 2000