Watch on your own, discuss with us! 

Creation Care film discussions July 15th and July 28th, 2024

You’re invited to two film “screenings” followed by Zoom discussions with other Peace members and friends from other Westside Interfaith Network congregations, facilitated by the Creation Care Team. Information about how to join the zoom discussions will be sent out via email.

Monday, 7/15, from 7:00-8:00pm — Cooked: Survival by Zip Code

    (film available for viewing prior to this discussion by special arrangement for 3 days only – from Friday 7/12 through Sunday 7/14)

Bullfrog Film’s Cooked: Survival by Zip Code delves into the story of the worst heat disaster in U.S. history in 1995 in Chicago, when 739 residents—mostly elderly and black—died over the course of one week. The film links the deadly heat wave’s devastation back to the man made disaster of structural racism, shining a light on the issues of poverty, race, class, and education that underlie how natural disasters take lives. We have a license to view this film July 12-14, so watch your email for the link and password.  Make sure to schedule time to watch at home one of those three days and then join us for a Zoom discussion Monday evening, July 15th.

Sunday, 7/28 from 7:00-8:00pm —The Plastics Problem

     (film available for online viewing prior to this discussion – anytime via the link below)

The problem is simply stated: by 2050 there will be more plastic than fish in the oceans. It’s an environmental crisis that’s been in the making for nearly 70 years. Plastic pollution is now considered one of the largest environmental threats facing humans and animals globally.

In “The Plastic Problem: PBS NewsHour Presents”, Amna Nawaz and her PBS NewsHour colleagues look at this now ubiquitous material and how it’s impacting the world, why it’s become so prevalent, what’s being done to mitigate its use, and what potential alternatives or solutions are out there. This hour-long program travels from Boston to Seattle, Costa Rica to Easter Island to bring the global scale of the problem to light.

View the story at your leisure at https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/the-plastic-problem then join us on Zoom to discuss the feature on Sunday, July 28th.

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Links for the licensed viewing of the first film, and for the Zoom discussions, will only be available via email from Pastor Erik and/or Kathleen Keyes, using the usual email distribution list for all congregation members. If you are a member of Peace Lutheran Church Seattle and are not receiving email from Pastor Erik or our office manager Kathleen Keyes (such as weekly Bulletins, Peace Notes, and notices of special events), you are invited to please call or email the office, or use our web contact form to be placed on the email mailing list, or to update your email address for these notifications.

For more information:
– About Creation Care at Peace Lutheran Church
– About our Creation Care Team

Thank you for all you are doing to care for creation!