Friday, JUNE 14, 2013, 7:00 to 9:30 PM
FILM: "MONEY & LIFE" (90 min, Katie Teague, 2013)
and it's TRANSITION FRIDAY!  …An evening focused on resilient community and positive solutions at a local level!
Join us for the discussion following the film:
DEBRA MORRISON and FRANCIS AYLEY
with The Fourth Corner Exchange
DIANNE JUHL
with The Feminine Face of Money, and
ERIC SMITH
with Goodfunds
MONEY & LIFE is a passionate and inspirational documentary that asks a provocative question: can we see the economic crisis not as a disaster, but as a tremendous opportunity?  This cinematic odyssey connects the dots on our current economic pains and offers a new story of money based on an emerging paradigm of planetary well-being that understands all of life as profoundly interconnected.
MONEY & LIFE takes us on a journey, from the origins of money to connecting the systemic dots on the current global financial crisis and how we got here.  Most importantly, it says that we owe it to ourselves to understand the fundamentals of this technology called money in order to be effective participants in the economic transformation that is happening around us, a shift more rapid than the Industrial Revolution and as profound.
An optimistic film steeped in appreciation for human ingenuity, MONEY & LIFE does not dictate answers. It is a respectful invitation to consider questions critical to all our well-being: How can we move beyond being merely consumers, debtors and creditors, and put money in service to what we really care about as citizens, as human beings?
Join us for a great discussion following the film! ...Please help us get the word out to friends and family!
For more info on The Fourth Corner Exchange:
http://www.fourthcornerexchange.com/
For more info on Goodfunds go to:
http://www.goodfunds.com/
For more info on The Feminine Face of Money go to:
http://www.femininefaceofmoney.com/
Dianne Juhl's YouTube Channel go: HERE
To see the Trailer & for more information on the film, go to:
http://moneyandlifemovie.com/
To see 'Main Street' says about the MONEY & LIFE film go : HERE

Download the Flyer HERE.
To see the Trailer & for more information on the film, go to:
http://moneyandlifemovie.com/
Please read Dianne Juhl's article, "Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life": HERE
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted).

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Friday, JUNE 21, 2013, 7:00 to 9:30 PM
FILM: “OCCUPY LOVE” (86 min, Velcrow Ripper, 2013)
WITH CECILE ANDREWS, AUTHOR OF THE NEW BOOK, “LIVING ROOM REVOLUTION”
On a journey deep inside the revolution of the heart that is erupting around the planet, acclaimed director Velcrow Ripper (Scared Sacred, Fierce Light) explores the growing realization that the dominant system of power is failing to provide us with health, happiness or meaning.  The old paradigm that concentrates wealth, founded on the greed of the few, is causing economic and ecological collapse. The resulting crisis has become the catalyst for a profound awakening:  millions of people are deciding that enough is enough –  the time has come to create a new world, a world that works for all life.
The film connects the dots in this era of rapidly evolving social change, featuring captivating insider scenes from the Egyptian Revolution, the Indignado uprising in Spain,  Occupy Wall Street in New York, Indigenous activists at the Alberta Tar Sands, the climate justice movement, and beyond.
OCCUPY LOVE features some of the world’s key visionaries on alternative systems of economics, sustainability, and empathy, including Naomi Klein, Bill McKibben, Jeremy Rifkin, bell hooks and Charles Eisenstein.
Join us for a conversation with Cecile Andrews following the film! 
Cecile is also the autor of the books “Slow Is Beautiful” and “The Circle Of Simplicity”. 
She is active in the Sharing movement, the Seattle Area Happiness Initiative and the Transition Town movement, all efforts to build community and sustainability where they count the most, at the local level. 
Her new book, “Living Room Revolution: A Handbook for Conversation, Community and the Common Good” refutes the notion that selfishness is at the root of human nature.  Research shows that people - given the right circumstances - can be caring, nurturing and collaborative.  Presented with the opportunity, they gravitate toward actions and policies embodying empathy, fairness, and trust instead of competition, fear, and greed.  The regeneration of social ties and the sense of caring and purpose that comes from creating community drive this essential transformation.  (See below for her reading at Elliot Bay Books on June 23rd.
To see the trailer, go: HERE  
To download the flyer, please go HERE.  Please help us get the word out!
For more information on Cecile and her work, please go to
http://www.cecileandrews.com/
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted)

Friday, JUNE 28, 2013, 7:00 to 9:30 PM
FILM: “PSYWAR” - Propaganda For Political, Corporate Control of American Minds
(109 min, Scott Noble, 2010)
"PSYWAR" explores corporate and government use of propaganda and public relations to manipulate the American public. The movie explores how the U.S. government staged events to manipulate public opinion about the Iraq war, like the rescue of Private Jessica Lynch, the supposedly spontaneous mob that pulled over the larger-than-life statue of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. It also discusses the hidden activities of the Rendon Group, a PR firm specializing in spinning war.
The film exposes government and corporate activities to blur the lines between real news and fake news, as well as the development over time of public relations misinformation campaigns, strategic corporate campaigns to generate goodwill, and the perception of good works and other manipulative PR tools that have turned the land of the free and the home of the brave into a place where citizens are now manipulated with great efficiency, and on a massive scale.
Download the Flyer HERE. Please help us get the word out.
For Further Reading:
Articles: HERE
An Interview with the Director: HERE
Join us following the film for a facilitated community discussion.
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, JULY 12, 2013, 7:00 to 9:30 PM
FILM: “THE GIFTS OF GRIEF”
(52 min, Nancee Sobonya, 2005)
WITH THE FILMMAKER, NANCEE SOBONYA!
"A beautiful film and a great gift to us all. Finally a film that points to the positive dimensions of grief. It shows us that grief is our common ground, that the healing is always found by moving toward the suffering and that the journey through grief is a path to wholeness." - Frank Ostaseski - Founder Metta Institute
Through compelling personal stories, we gain valuable insights from people facing, growing and transforming through grief. What can we learn from our losses? What inner and outer resources do we have to help us cope with our grief? How do we go on? What are the "gifts of grief?" These are the core questions that are explored by ordinary and extraordinary people, including writer, Isabel Allende; Reverend Cecil Williams; writer, Alana Laraine; Zen Monk /Vietnam Veteran, Claude AnShin Thomas; youth motivator, Vinny Ferrero; filmmaker, Lee Mun Wah who celebrate and inspire healing and transformation. The film invites us to open to pain, learn from loss, and teaches us about the preciousness of life.
To see the trailer and more information on the film, go to: www.giftsofgrief.com
Please join us following the film for a Q&A and a community discussion with the Filmmaker!
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted).

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