Mt Victoria

2014 Programme

Transition Towns Mt Victoria

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Mt Victoria May meeting - 'The Wisdom to Survive' film

Tuesday 17th May at 7.30pm, at New Crossways, Roxburgh St. 'The Wisdom to Survive' film. We will show the 56 min film The Wisdom to Survive which provides visions of how we should live in the midst of massive environmental challenges. All welcome.
For more information contact Frank Cook, 027 6496508

Location / Venue: 
Crossways Community Centre, 6 Roxburgh Street, Mt Victoria, Wellington

Mt Victoria April meeting - 'The Worm is Turning' film

Tuesday 19th April at 7.30pm, at New Crossways, Roxburgh St. 'The Worm is Turning' film. We will show The Worm is Turning, which includes the story of how corporate agribusiness is taking over the world's food production and shows how this system is destroying people's health, economies and the ecology of the world. All welcome. » Read more

Location / Venue: 
Crossways Community Centre, 6 Roxburgh Street, Mt Victoria, Wellington

Mt Victoria March meeting - 'This Changes Everything' film

Tuesday 8th March at 7.30pm, at New Crossways, Roxburgh St. 'This Changes Everything' film. In our first meeting for 2016 we will view the documentary 'This Changes Everything', Naomi Klein's 90 minute film that is billed as an epic attempt to re-imagine the vast challenge of climate change. All welcome.
For more information contact Frank Cook, 027 6496508

Location / Venue: 
Crossways Community Centre, 6 Roxburgh Street, Mt Victoria, Wellington

Mt Victoria December meeting - 'Chernobyl' film

Tuesday 1st December at 7.30pm, at New Crossways, Roxburgh St. 'Chernobyl' film. In our final meeting for the year we will view a documentary film on the ability of nature to recover following an environmental disaster. You may have seen it on discovery channel. It's about Chernobyl and lasts 50 minutes. All welcome.
For more information contact Frank Cook, 027 6496508

Location / Venue: 
Crossways Community Centre, 6 Roxburgh Street, Mt Victoria, Wellington

Food Matters Aotearoa conference 2015

PREVIOUS EVENT

Information on the upcoming "Food Matters Aotearoa conference" was presented at our December 2014 meeting.
See below for the full details on this important conference.

"Food Matters Aotearoa conference, 14 and 15 February 2015, Te Papa Tongarewa, Museum of New Zealand, Wellington.
Food Matters Aotearoa Conference welcomes overseas speakers including Dr. Vandana Shiva, Prof. Gilles-Eric Seralini, and Prof. Don Huber. » Read more

Mt Victoria November meeting - 'Cowspiracy' film

Tuesday 3rd November at 7.30pm, at New Crossways, Roxburgh St. 'Cowspiracy' film. We will view the 2014 documentary film "Cowspiracy", which is about the impact of the agribusiness on greenhouse gas emisisions and the environment. The controversial documentary, delivered in Michael Moore style, not only takes a hard look at global animal agriculture but also asks why environmental organisations say little about it. The film is 91 minutes long. All welcome. » Read more

Location / Venue: 
Crossways Community Centre, 6 Roxburgh Street, Mt Victoria, Wellington

Mt Victoria October meeting - 'Switch' film

Tuesday 6th October at 7.30pm, at New Crossways, Roxburgh St. 'Switch' film. We will view the 2012 98 minute film "Switch", which is an educational documentary on the current energy crisis. The documentary surveys the world's range of current energy production from diverse sources—solar, nuclear, coal, geothermal, wind, biofuels, oil—and looks at how many people they can supply if the average person consumes 20,000 kilowatt hours in a year. All welcome.
For more information contact Frank Cook, 027 6496508

Location / Venue: 
Crossways Community Centre, 6 Roxburgh Street, Mt Victoria, Wellington

Mt Victoria September meeting - 'The Climate Blueprint' film

Tuesday 8th September at 7.30pm, at New Crossways, Roxburgh St. 'The Climate Blueprint' film. We will view the 52 minute documentary "The Climate Blueprint" which is the first doucmentary to explore the history of the climate change summits, beginning with Kyoto in 1997. This is against the background of the coming Paris Convention (COP21) in December of this year. At Paris the hope is for a new global agreement against global warming, the Paris Protocol. All welcome to come and see this interesting story.
For more information contact Frank Cook, 027 6496508

Location / Venue: 
Crossways Community Centre, 6 Roxburgh Street, Mt Victoria, Wellington

Mt Victoria August meeting - 'Last Call' film

Tuesday 11th August at 7.30pm, at New Crossways, Roxburgh St. 'Last Call' film. We will view the documentary film “Last Call”. This 90 minute 2013 documentary revisits the ideas of the Club of Rome (Limits to Growth) by interviewing its surviving members and includes footage from the period when the group’s work was first released. The documentary, like “The Limits to Growth” forty years earlier, raises questions about sustainable growth and consumerism that are even more urgent than they were in the 1970s. » Read more

Location / Venue: 
Crossways Community Centre, 6 Roxburgh Street, Mt Victoria, Wellington
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