Wed 7/30 @ 6:30PM
One of this vast country’s greatest riches is its natural land, set aside and preserved in our national parks, from Acadia on coastal Maine to Denali in Alaska—and Cuyahoga Valley National Park in our own backyard. Hills, mountains, forests, deserts, lakes, swamps, canyons—they offer people the opportunity to explore a wide range of unspoiled terrains and climates.
Yet the spoilers are coming for them. In the past six months, we’ve seen an administration cutting funding and staff so services and maintenance fall by the wayside. And they’re talking about selling them off at bargain rates to private interests, in some cases to destroy them for fossil fuel extraction. It’s never been more important to advocate for keeping what’s ours.
The film, Out There: A National Parks Story, stands as an advocate for protecting the national parks. In it, the filmmaker and a friend travel 10,000 miles, visiting multiple parks to mark the centennial of the National Park Service. As they travel, they talk to rangers, conservationists and visitors to the parks to learn the impact these diverse landscapes have on the people who engage with them.
There’s no more appropriate place to screen the film than at Cuyahoga Valley National Park’s Happy Days Lodge, where the film’s director Brendan Hall will be present for a post-screening discussion with Lowell Perry Jr of the Greater Cleveland Film Commission.
Doors open at 6:30pm with a cash bar. The film screens at 7pm. The discussion follows at 8:30. Get tickets here.