Big Green Week: The Ants & The Grasshopper
In conjunction with Great Big Green Week, the Regal Picturehouse in Henley-on-Thames is showing a special screening of award winning documentary about climate justice, The Ants & The Grasshopper followed by a recorded Q&A with the director.
Anita Chitaya has a gift; she can help bring abundant food from dead soil, she can make men fight for gender equality, and she can end child hunger in her village. Now, to save her home from extreme weather, she faces her greatest challenge:
persuading Americans that climate change is real.
Traveling from Malawi to California to the White House, she meets climate skeptics and despairing farmers. Her journey takes her across all the divisions shaping the US, from the rural-urban divide, to schisms of race, class and gender, to the thinking that allows Americans to believe we live on a different planet from everyone else. It will take all her skill and experience to persuade us that we’re all in this together.
This documentary, ten years in the making, weaves together the most urgent themes of our times: climate change, gender and racial inequality, the gaps between the rich and the poor, and the ideas that groups around the world have generated in order to save the planet.
Showing on Sunday October 2nd at 2.30pm, to book your tickets go to Film Information | Picturehouse Cinemas.
And to find out more about what’s happening in Henley for Great Big Green Week visit Greener Henley – Tackling the climate and ecological emergency
