Sat 4/12 @ 7-9PM
As part of its month-long celebration on Earth Day, Standing Rock Cultural Arts in Kent presents its 19th annual Environmental Film Festival, taking place at its North Water Street Gallery. It will screen environmental short films from around the world, but it will also feature a short from its own backyard called Free the Falls, looking at the removal of the Gorge Dam on the Cuyahoga River in the Summit Metro Parks.
The event will include an appearance by Elaine Marsh, watershed specialist for the Summit Metro Parks, a watershed specialist for the Summit Metro Parks and an activist for clean water, air and land. She co-founded Friends of the Crooked River in 1990 to educate people on the importance of restoring and maintaining the cleanliness of the Cuyahoga River. Her bio says, “Following its fire in 1969, many simply regarded the Cuyahoga as dead. But where most saw a lost cause, Elaine saw a sick friend asking for help. As conservation chairwoman of the Portage Trail Group of the Sierra Club(1983), Elaine helped establish what is now Cascade Valley Metro Park. Not only did she and the group advocate for this river-centric Metro Park, they also used machetes and shovels to construct its first trail themselves.”
The screening is free and open to all. Go here for more information.