In the March issue:

Creating urban bio-corridors
Neighbours Day
Grey Lynn Farmers Market
Waste Away
Grey Lynn Business Association
Green Screen 2011
Christchurch fundraising afternoon tea

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Fierce Light is a beautiful film which explores what happens when Spirit Meets Action, that is, showing the power that is released when spirituality and activism come together. It illuminates what is possible when human beings are their absolute best…..a human sunrise.
Running time: 95 minutes

September Green Screen was an insightful night and thanks to those of you who came along to share it.

Many thanks to Steve Edwards for showing us his creation ‘Urban Jungle’; and to Finn Mackesy for presenting ‘The Power of Community‘. He helped to deepen our understanding of it, and how to relate it’s lessons to our own situation in New Zealand.

Come along and join us this month for thought provoking viewing, discussions, and a drink.
Entry: $2

Hope to see you all there this month.

Saturday 30th October 7pm
Grey Lynn Community Centre

Here is the video below – come along this Wednesday for the screening

Water Whisperers Tangaroa is a film that celebrates ten communities facing serious water issues, who come up with amazingly simple solutions.

read More about Water Whisperers over here

Grey Lynn 2030 Movie Night Fundraiser

Positive Vision – Practical action: Help us do more!

Wednesday 6th October

Capitol Cinema
610 Dominion Road, Balmoral
7.30pm for a glass of wine 8pm movie start

We are thrilled to be hosting the Auckland Premier of the Water Whisperers Tangaroa

Kathleen Gallagher award winning Director of Earth Whisperers Papatuanuku says  “This film is about the reconnection of ourselves with our lakes, rivers and oceans. We have guides already in our midst – old fishermen, conservationists, farmers, scientists local iwi and divers who are intimate with lakes river and sea life,  knowledgeable about sustainable fishing practices and to restore damaged waters”

Watch the trailer here

Tickets $20

Please deposit direct to our bank account

Kiwi Bank 38-9009-0672728-00  (Ref: Movie) and then email: greylynn2030@gmail.com with your name and number of tickets purchased

Cash door sales available on the night. It would be great if you could let us know you are coming as we don’t want you to be disappointed.

The Power of Community is an inspiring description of how the people of Cuba overcame the loss of most of their oil supply; how they worked together at the grassroots level to feed themselves and move forward, into a lifestyle that is probably superior to what they had before.  Run time: 53 minutes. http://www.powerofcommunity.org

Also presenting: Jungle Space

Jungle Space is a short photo essay with music made by Green-Screener, Steve Edwards who employed what he calls the ‘manky-montage-motif’ editing technique to convey a jungle vision for the urban-suburban habitats of Tämaki Makaurau. What unfolds is the story of the Jungle Spaces’ themselves – that are and could be – as told by a foot-path chalk narrator who provokes the viewer to let the light bulb go on by instigating or joining-in the transformation from ‘chit-chat’ into community-wide action. By using the asphalt as a medium for anarchistic communication, its inert functionality is altered as the chalk insights people with maths to ‘evolve’ by walking beyond their talk.

Duration 3min 40 sec. JungleSpace.tiff

Come along and join us for thought provoking viewing, discussions, and a drink.
When: Saturday 25th September, 7pm
Where: Grey Lynn Community Centre, 510 Richmond Road
Entry: $2

Coming up for October Green Screen: Fierce Light on Saturday 30th October at 7pm

We are excited to announce that we’ll be screening the documentary …

Garbage Warrior

A crew of builders explore off-the-grid sustainable building design in the New Mexico Desert.

After the county shut down an ‘Earthship biotecture’ community while under construction,  the founder, Michael Reynolds, went on a quest to get the state to pass a law for a  Sustainable Buildings Test Site.
Earthship n. 1. passive solar home made of natural and recycled materials. 2. thermal massconstruction for temperature stabilization. 3. renewable energy & integrated water systems make  Earthship an off-grid home with no utility bills.
Biotecture n. 1. the profession of designing buildings and environments with consideration for sustainability. 2. A combination of biology and architecture.

When: Saturday 28th August

Starts: 7PM sharp

Where: Grey Lynn Community Centre

510 Richmond Road

Entry: $2

Come join us for a drink on a cosy winter evening.

Garbage Warrior (the trailer on You Tube)

When: Saturday 3rd July at 7pm
Where: Grey Lynn Community Centre on Richmond Road
Tickets at the door just $2

Showing: ‘The Yes Men Fix The World’

Described here by Kail from the Green Screen team:
“the sequel to the ‘The Yes Men’ and if you’ve seen that then you’ll have a bit of a clue re the flavour. It’s a smart, funny, provocative satire that will have your eye’s bugging with disbelief & if you’re not broadly smiling or gasping at the audacious mischief designed to prick consciences everywhere it will be because you’ll be laughing out loud at the inspired hi-jinks of these adorable yet formidable pranksters. Practical jokers par excellence they challenge the conventions (literally) of the rapacious exploitation of multinational corporates & expose the character, culture & behaviour of global big business. A tongue in cheek farcical mockery & infotainment at it’s finest. Check out the link to the trailer on youtube below for a preview glimpse of this shockingly absurd reality comedy.”

Hope to see you there!

The Yes Men Fix the World

Grey Lynn 2030 are pleased to announce our next movie night. We are showing FOOD Inc. , so if eating good food is something you like to do, then please read on.

Here is our food inc  poster food inc grey lynn a4 Poster Oct 14 for the event if you would like to help us publicise the film.

(It is an A4 sized pdf version which you can print out.)

Here is the Trailer link or view below

Click here to view the embedded video.

and here is a review of the film from Variety

We are going to make a night of it…and celebrate with some of our local businesses.
Wednesday October 14th
Bridgeway Theatre
122 Queen St,
Northcote

Complimentary bottle of Monteiths Apple Cider and canapes before the film.

Doors open at 8.00 for drinks, snack, chat and spot prizes and then the movie will get going around 8.30.

We have been kindly donated the following spot prizes which you have a chance of winning from the (hopefully lucky) number on your ticket.

-Annual subscription to Good Magazine

- Yoga clothing from We.ar.it
- Ecostore Cleaning Products – No nasty chemicals-

Two of our local cafes will be tempting you with canapes.
We thank and hope you will continue to support
The Little Grocer and Savour and Devour
Our Grey Lynn Farmers Market coffee provider and organic food producer  Kokako are providing some of their “naughty nibbles”.  Jones the Grocer are bringing a platter of local cheeses for you to sample. Naked Organics are turning up with their chunky and moorish dips for us to try.

Gifts for Biz has given us a treats box to raffle on the night which I will put with the  Christmas Cake donated from Jones the Grocer

Once again the good guys at our local wine shop The Wine Vault are organising the ticketing for us. No door sales. Either call in to the Wine Vault, 453 Richmond Road (West Lynn shops) to get your ticket or buy it on line. Click here.
With the money we made from our last movie night, Grey Lynn 2030 used this to build the new fence for the Wilton St Community Garden, pay for a banner and other signage that we need to use at the Farmers Market, Grey Lynn Festival and other events we are invited to attend.

The funds we make can further our work with environmental projects in our community.

So, please bring your family (the film is a PG), bring your friends, see a great and thought-provoking film, and support Grey Lynn 2030 while you’re at it!

Thanks so much to our supporting sponsors.

Have you heard about the Age of Stupid?

The Age of Stupid is the new epic from McLibel director Franny Armstrong. Pete Postlethwaite stars as a man living alone in the devastated world of 2055, looking at old footage from 2008 and asking: why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance?

Grey Lynn 2030 is thrilled to be showing the Age of Stupid on its first day in Auckland

“The Age of Stupid”

Wednesday 19th August

Bridgeway Theatre

122 Queen St, Northcote Point

8.00 doors open, 8.30 film begins

Come along early for a drink and meet your mates. We have been donated some green hampers from Easy Green Living and there are some spot prizes to be won before the film

Tickets are $20 to raise money for Grey Lynn 2030

Tickets can be purchased from:

The Wine Vault
453 Richmond Rd, Grey Lynn

There are no Door Sales on the night so please call in and see Jayson at The Wine Vault or buy your tickets on line.

Here’s the preview:

Click here to view the embedded video.

And here are some reviews:

“An emergency wake-up call to do everything possible to avert
impending catastrophe.” – New York Times

“Think “An Inconvenient Truth” but with a personality” – LA Times

“A Deeply Inconvenient Kick Up the Backside… you won’t see a more
important film this year” – News of the World ****

“Bold, supremely provocative, and hugely important….
a cry from the heart as much as a roar for necessary change.” – The Telegraph ****

“The most imaginative and dramatic assault on the institutional
complacency shrouding the issue” – The Times ****

“Captivating and constantly surprising… the first successful dramatisation
of climate change to reach the big screen” – The Guardian

“Lectures us sternly and pitilessly – but also intelligently
and provokingly” – Financial Times ****

“Enough attitude to power a large city… slaps you around
the face then punches you in the stomach” – The Sun ****

“I defy anyone to come out and not feel like they’ve got
to make a difference.” – Caroline Lucas, Leader of the UK Green Party

“Every single person in the country should be forcibly
made to watch this film”. – Ken Livingstone, former Mayor of London

“It is not a film to make you happy. It’s a film to make you sit back and think
‘What is my role on this planet?’” – Ashok Sinha, Director of Stop Climate Chaos coalition

“I hate this film. I felt as if I was watching all my own excuses for not doing
anything about climate change being stripped away from me.
Can I just pretend I never saw it?”- William Nicholson, Writer of Gladiator

“I was nodding to myself all the way through, thinking ‘How can I reduce my flights?,
‘Can I install a wind turbine at home?’. It is definitely going to change my life.
It was so powerful and so moving I wanted it to go on for another hour.”
- Gillian Anderson, actress

“The most powerful piece of cultural discourse on climate change
ever produced.” – Mark Lynas, author of “Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet”

“Jaw-droppingly impressive as to how such a raft of fantastic ideas were so superbly executed. From the solar-powered tent to the camera phone pictures of the audiences, from the campaign packs to The Met Office guy rubber-stamping the science, from the ultra-low transport footprint to the Big If (not forgetting Pete’s OBE etc…) and topping it all with the Maldives’ challenge to us all. What a night. Thank you all for showing me a way through the rest of my life.”
“I feel I have shared in the making of history this evening – such a privilege”

“Nothing else has ever made the issue clearer, the solutions more obvious, and the urgency more acute. Nothing else has ever shouted more loudly. I challenge anyone to watch this film and not feel compelled to take action.”
“What a triumph. Impressed beyond belief.”

“The audience were absolutely riveted by the film. At the end, the cutover to Leicester Square was so slick and the synchronisation perfect, it was like being transported to the cinema tent and we felt a real sense of being part of that audience — to the extent that there was clapping at the right moments and barracking (‘rubbish’) at some of the stuff Ed Miliband spouted. The sense of engagement with the Premiere was palpable — I have never experienced anything quite so intense in an audience that size. And moments like Pete saying that he would hand back his OBE were electric!”
“I work for a large corporate so I went back into the workplace on Monday filled with passion to make a difference and have set up a host of meetings to do just that.”

“Brilliant night in Cambridge – sold out – people turned away – fantastic atmosphere – congratulations to all of you!”

“The film was amazing. Saw it at The Light (Leeds) which was sold-out. I went with a friend who does lots of flying (holidays) and she came away very thoughtful indeed. The film had a huge impact on her and I’ll be very surprised if she doesn’t change her lifestyle. Pete P was such a wonderful person for the role, though clearly he wasn’t acting in this case.”

“The Age of Stupid has brought together local environmental groups from a wide area some of whom didn’t know the others existed, representatives from different groups attending meetings of other groups to listen and share ideas, a new network of like minded friends who are now discussing the possibility of an autumn gathering of all local groups in one place for tea/coffee and a chin wag! Imagine then the friendships that will forge every evening when these groups meet at the showings to talk to filmgoers; the optimism here in Inverness is exciting and electric.”

“The world seems a little different today.”

“I have seen countless climate change, activist films etc and none has moved me as much as yours. I had to try and be discreet when I could no longer hold back the tears, as I was without tissues and didn’t want to ask my friends for any!! And then just as I had found my composure, Pete got up on stage and gave such a rallying, passionate plea, that I began all over again!”

“Your film changed my life completely, it’s hard and scary but I’ve been converted to full on activist status!”

“Mum brought me tea this morning [the day after the premiere] and burst into tears on my bed. She had been up since 5am thinking about the film, and how we live, and getting upset. I have been banging on about this for years (quite ineffectively I realise), but the film acted to distill, and make stark, the totally misplaced and confused framework through which we value things. It really hit the soul of this household.”