The Collingwood film series backed by local environmental charity Blue Mountain Watershed Trust, is bringing back its outdoor screenings next week starting with a hot topic.
Wildfires will be the theme for the first screening on July 25 at 8 p.m. featuring the film Built to Burn, which explores the pattern of growing wildfire risk and asks can we "ready ourselves to truly manage fire, or will we continue the status quo?"
The Collingwood Fire Department will represented by a fire truck and member of the fire prevention team for discussion during the event.
The film will be shown outdoors on an 18-foot screen set up at the Collingwood Brewery beer garden. There are picnic tables, but film viewers are also invited to bring their own folding chair and blanket. Parking is available on-site, but Collingwood Brewery is also a bike-friendly location located along the Train Trail bike path at 10 Sanford Fleming Road.
Find tickets online at btc.watershedtrust.
There will be two other environment-centric films shown this summer as part of the Be The Change Series, one on Aug. 22 and one on Sept. 12.
The Blue Mountain Watershed Trust, is a local 28-year-old environmental charity that runs the film series as a friend- and fund-raising effort. Proceeds help to fight bad development plans, especially around the Silver Creek Wetland, watercourses, woodlands and wildlife corridors. They also go to the organization’s environmental education efforts, to keeping tabs on golf course pesticide use, to working with the ski hills to limit negative impacts on fish/wildlife habitat from runoff, and much more.
Be The Change is seeking sponsorships from organizations that espouse socially and environmentally progressive values. Interested businesses are encouraged to get in touch: [email protected].
About the Be the Change Film Series
The BTC Film Series was created in 2008 to educate and inspire the local Collingwood/Blue Mountains community into action. The Blue Mountain Watershed Trust Foundation is working together along with other community partners to provide the audience with a deeper and more comprehensive understanding of some of the most important ecological and social justice issues facing the local area and the communities of planet Earth. For more information on the entire series, please contact McKay Barr [email protected] o
