aqueductindyThe Metabolic Studio is Hosting 100 Conversations About Water During the Centenary of the Los Angeles Owens Valley Aqueduct. 

Please Join Us for Conversation #43:  Eden Interrupted: Historical Perspectives on Owens Valley Agriculture.  Saturday, Oct. 19, Legion Hall, Independence, 2 pm

Led by Richard Potashin and Lynn Johnson and co-sponsored by the Eastern California Museum, this conversation will explore our valley’s agricultural history, the impact of changes in water availability, and implications for the next 100 years.

The Conversation will be followed by a Harvest Festival Potluck, a visit to the Manzanar exhibit at the Eastern California Museum, and a ceremony by Zen Archer Hirokazu Kosaka at the Mary DeDecker Garden.

For More Information, contact 510-468-7113.

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20

100 Mules Walking the LA Aqueduct

Join with with Metabolic Studios, Eastern California Museum and The Lone Pine Film History Museum to celebrate the mules at 4:00 pm.

Film Screening “WATERSHED” @ 2:00 pm
see details below

Meet the Mules & Riders
Learn about this historic ride, Mules and the Riders
Event will be in the Rodeo Grounds adjacent to the Museum
approximately 5:30 pm

In addition, a film bus in the Rodeo Grounds parking lot (around noon) will be availabble for the public to contribute video comments for a docmentary film project – “Where does my water come from?”

Watershed

Executive produced & narrated by Robert Redford

Produced by the Redford Center and Kontent Films

Executive Produced and Narrated by Robert Redford and Directed by award-winning filmmaker, Mark Decena, WATERSHED tells the story of the threats to the once-mighty Colorado River and offers solutions for the future of the American West.

As the most dammed, dibbed, and diverted river in the world struggles to support thirty million people and the peace-keeping agreement known as the Colorado River Pact reaches its limits, WATERSHED introduces hope.

Can we meet the needs of a growing population in the face of rising temperatures and lower rainfall in an already arid land? Can we find harmony amongst the competing interests of cities, agriculture, industry, recreation, wildlife, and indigenous communities with rights to the water?

Sweeping through seven U.S. and two Mexican states, the Colorado River is a lifeline to expanding populations and booming urban centers that demand water for drinking, sanitation and energy generation. And with 70% of the rivers’ water supporting agriculture, the river already runs dry before it reaches its natural end at the Gulf of California. Unless action is taken, the river will continue its retreat – a potentially catastrophic scenario for the millions who depend on it.

In WATERSHED, we meet Jeff Ehlert, a fly fishing guide in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado rancher Dan James, Delta restoration worker Edith Santiago, Navajo Council member Glojean Todacheene, Rifle Colorado Mayor Keith Lambert, Los Angeles native Jimmy Lizama and a group of Outward Bound teens rafting down the Colorado River as they all reflect a compelling new water ethic—one that illuminates how letting go of the ways of old can lead to a path of coexisting with enough for all.

The Redford Center created WATERSHED as a inspirational social action tool for people who want to engage. Promoting personal water conservation pledges of 5% – symbolic of the small amount of the rivers’ flow required to reconnect the river to its delta – and garnering donations to help purchase the water rights necessary to restore the connectivity, WATERSHED is a central tool in a larger grassroots effort focused on saving the Colorado River and supporting the communities throughout the river basin.

See more at: http://watershedmovie.com/about/film/#sthash.OnLA22vW.dpuf

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