The Arts Club of Washington Cinematography Committee
&
Emmy Awarded Producer, Todd Clark
Present
FILM & DISCUSSION SERIES:
Finding Community Through a River
Attendees can register for the chance to be part of a FREE BOAT TOUR* of the Anacostia!
Tuesday, July 6, 2021, at 6:00 pm
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
ACW Members & Guests Free - Non-Members $10
This week our speaker will be:
SPEAKER: Robinne Gray, Anacostia Watershed Society
Featured movie:
FILM: “Anacostia: Restoring the People’s River”, Producer, Todd Clark
SERIES: Curated and hosted by local EMMY Awarded Producer, Todd Clark, this timely series will provide its audiences with a weekly brief panel presentation and full film screening that will explore this idea of Community- and the importance people attach to being a part of a Community that is meaningful, comfortable and stable. With everyone coming out of Covid fears and political chaos, where are people turning to find a community, or communities, where they feel they are trusted and fully part of? Are there currently many new communities or just new versions of past communities? How and why have different communities thrived and others dissolved or become dysfunctional, or even dangerous?
SPEAKER: Robinne Gray, Anacostia Watershed Society.
Education: Master's of Regional Planning (MRP) program, Cornell University B.S., Urban and Regional Studies, Cornell University. Robinne joined AWS in 2017 to connect supporters to the mission of AWS, building the capacity to create a healthy Anacostia River for all to enjoy. Robinne has lived in the Anacostia watershed since 2008. She spent her childhood in the desert southwest (Salt River watershed), and lived for many years in the Finger Lakes region of central New York (St. Lawrence Seaway watershed). For fun, Robinne studies natural history and botany and enjoys hiking and quiet-water explorations around the mid-Atlantic region.
FILM: “Anacostia: Restoring the People’s River”. Producer, Todd Clark
Description: In a nation built for the people, and by the people, the Anacostia River, which runs through both the suburbs and the heart of the nation’s capital, is the people’s river. However, this precious asset was left to succumb to the ravages of urban development, out-dated infrastructure, and thoughtless actions. Across the region, people and groups have been working to restore the abused and forgotten Anacostia River.
This video, written, shot and edited by EMMY award-winning DC filmmaker, Todd Clark in collaboration with and funded by the Anacostia Watershed Society, portrays the struggle to revitalize often depressed riverside communities by restoring the streams running through them. The Anacostia River’s extraordinary beauty and degradation are illuminated with poignant images, compelling testimony, and inspirational music- featuring vocal groups, In Process, and Sweet Honey in The Rock and original music by local musician Pili Greenfield.
Anacostia: Restoring the People’s River has been shown as a part of the Takoma Park Film Festival, and at the 2004 Green Festival, the 2004 Environmental Film Festival and on D.C. Cable 16, Prince George’s County Cable, Arlington and Fairfax County Cable stations. Upon its release, D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton and Rep. Chris Van Hollen together hosted a premiere at the U.S. House of Representatives and Delegate David Harrington hosted a premiere at the University of Maryland.
This event includes a cocktail reception, a panel discussion and a movie screening.
The entire event will be outdoors in the patio area weather permitting.
This is the second season of this unique downtown outdoor Film & Discussion Series. The theme of the 2020 Series was, “Voting, Democracy and the Rule of Law”. This series made possible by the Arts Club of Washington
and the 2021 Film & Discussion Series Host Committee:
Co-Chair, Kim Dodd, and Supporters, Jerome Barry, and the Embassy Series
Complimentary parking after 6 pm at 2001 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W.
RSVP required, reserve online.
6:00 pm Cocktail Reception
7:00 pm Movie & Discussion
