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As part of its “Green Living Series,” Concord’s Red River Theatres has covered a range of topics from green building construction to the ways we use electricity. Since last April, eight films have been screened as part of the series, starting with Clothesline – a 30-minute documentary about the benefits of air-drying laundry.
“We began the series because we saw several films in the pipeline that had to do with environmental issues,” said Connie Rosemont, Red River’s executive director. “We also had a number of patrons who continued to ask us to screen titles around environmental themes.”
Rosemont said the series didn’t formally take off until Green Concord, a group of local businesses in the Concord area that offer environmentally friendly products and services, got involved. Debbie de Moupied and Jonathan Gregory of Real Green Goods joined with the theater to find speakers, create e-mail lists and help spread the word.
“We decided that the time was right and that this was something that would support our mission of community-orientated programming,” Rosemont said.
This year, Rosemont said, the series will cover a broad range of topics, including conservation, food and energy, and will remain focused on films that offer hope as opposed to flicks that suggest catastrophe is around the corner and there’s nothing to be done about it.
“Every little nudge toward a more conscious recognition that each one of us can do something in life is what the film series is all about,” she said.
The next film in the series will be Dirt! The Movie. Viewers will learn where dirt comes from and how it sustains us through animation, vignettes and personal accounts. The movie will run April 9 through 12.
As the series continues, a new film with be presented during the second weekend of each month, Friday through Monday, in the screening room at Red River Theatres, 11 S. Main St. One showing will include a post-film discussion.
For more information about the series and for show times, visit redrivertheatres.org or call 224-4600. For more information about Green Concord, visit greenconcord.org.
– Cassie Pappathan