Thanks to all of our supporters that came out to the screening.
You are invited to attend a special screening and Louisiana Art Show.
The Film: SOLA Louisiana Water Stories by reknown National Geographic Filmaker and Antarctic Expedition LeaderJon Bowermaster,
Louisiana Art Show featuring: Rhea Gary, CC Lockwood, Jeffrey Dubinsky, Jerry Moran, Kyle Jeffery, Natalie Clay, Stefan Andermann…and others!
Not enough? We didn’t think so either…Live Louisiana Music, Free Food and Cash Bar too! Plus, the first 50 people will receive a FREE DVD of a Jon Bowermaster film!
The Details: Friday, September 24th 2010. 6:00PM at the Manship Theater, Downtown Baton Rouge.
Tickets are $15.00 and all proceeds go to support the continued work of LEAN as it continues to respond to Louisiana’s many environmental challenges .
Purchase Tickets (this event has already taken place)
Movie Synopsis: Everywhere you look in Southern Louisiana there’s water – rivers, bayous, swamps, the Mississippi River, the Gulf of Mexico. And everyone in Cajun Country has a water story, or two or three or more. Its waterways support the biggest economies in Louisiana – a $63 billion a year oil and gas industry, a $200 million a year fishing business, tourism and recreational sports.
They are also home to some insidious polluters: The same oil and gas industry, 200 petrochemical plants along a 100-mile-long stretch of the Mississippi known “Cancer Alley,” the world’s largest Dead Zone in the Gulf of Mexico and erosion that is costing the coastline twenty five square miles of wetlands a year. At the same time SoLa is home to one of America’s most vital and unique cultures; if everyone who lives there has a water story they can also most likely play the fiddle, waltz, cook an etouffe and hunt and fish.