Film Series: Antarctica 3D: On the Edge Tuesday October 29th Jacob Burns Film Center (Pleasantville)

SPECIAL PREVIEW! Filmmaker, adventurer, author, and oceans expert Jon Bowermaster (SoLa: Louisiana Water Stories) joins us for a discussion featuring film clips about his extraordinary experiences in Antarctica while kayaking the coastline and  filming for National Geographic, followed by a first preview of his dazzling new 40 minute 3-D film about climate change in Antarctica. With absolutely extraordinary images, the likes of which you have never seen before.

Q&A Jon Bowermaster 

Jon Bowermaster. 2013. NR. USA.

Tickets: $15 (members), $20 (nonmembers)
For more info visit the Jacob Burns Film Center Focus on Nature webpage

Tuesday, October 29th
7:00PM
Jacob Burns Film Center
364 Manville Road, Pleasantville, NY

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Film Series: Fall and Winter October 24th, Jacob Burns Film Center (Pleasantville)

Jacob Burns Film Center presents Focus on Nature: Fall and Winter

Matt Anderson spent five years driving across the US searching for answers to the country’s ecological and other problems—and was stunned to find many creative people devising ingenious new strategies for the future. With breathtaking images, Fall and Winter is a hypnotic, disquieting voyage into our contemporary crisis that also charts a way out again. It’s a psycho-spiritual survival guide for the 21st century that brings you face to face with some of the most inventive thinkers on the planet. • Matt Anderson. 2013. 102 m. NR. US.

Q&A JBFC Programming Director Brian Ackerman and JBFC Executive Director Steve Apkon

Matt Anderson. 2013. 102 m. NR. USA.

Official Website / Trailer

Tickets: $7 (members), $12 (nonmembers)

For more info visit the Jacob Burns Film Center Focus on Nature webpage

Thursday, October 24th
7:30PM
Jacob Burns Film Center
364 Manville Road, Pleasantville, NY

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Burns BookTalk October 20th, Jacob Burns Film Center (Pleasantville)

Burns BookTalk w/ Terra Nova author Eric W. Sanderson

Internationally recognized ecologist and author Eric W. Sanderson explores in his new book Terra Nova: The New World After Oil, Cars, and Suburbs how America’s economy is entangled with our addiction to oil, cars, and suburbs— and presents a revolutionary plan for an economically sound, healthier, and freer future.

Presentation and Discussion: Join us at the JBFC Media Arts Lab (405 Manville Rd.) for Sanderson’s multimedia presentation.

Tickets are free. Please RSVP to lzakalik@burnsfilmcenter.org with the subject line “Terra Nova.” Space is limited. Books will be available for purchase courtesy The Village Bookstore.

n/a. 90 m. NR.

For more information visit the Jacob Burns Film Center, Focus on Nature webpage

Sunday, October 20th
5:00PM
Jacob Burns Film Center
364 Manville Road, Pleasantville, NY

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Film Series: Wings of Life October 20th, Jacob Burns Film Center (Pleasantville)

Jacob Burns Film Center presents Focus on Nature: Wings of Life

Family Film! A close-up look at a very special group of superheroes: the pollinators! Narrated by Meryl Streep, Wings of Life reveals the complex worlds of bees, butterflies, birds, and bats—and the plants that rely on them. A spectacularly beautiful, gentle film that reminds us not to take little things for granted.

Art Workshop for Kids: After the film, teaching artist Mary Jane Nusbaum guides kids (ages 5+) in an eco-art project in the Jane Peck Gallery.

Louie Schwartzberg. 2013. 77 m. G. USA. Disneynature.

Official Website / Trailer

Tickets: $7 (members), $12 (nonmembers)

For more info visit the Jacob Burns Film Center, Focus on Nature webpage

Sunday, October 20th
12PM
Jacob Burns Film Center
364 Manville Road, Pleasantville, NY

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Film Series: More Than Honey October 9th, Jacob Burns Film Center (Pleasantville)

Jacob Burns Film Center presents Focus on Nature: More Than Honey

A poetic film with exquisite macrophotography, More Than Honey takes in-depth look at the breeding behavior of queen bees, the inside of a bee’s brain, and the hair-raising prospects for a hive facing a mite infection. The specter of colony collapse disorder looms over all the apian wonders, as this mysterious global plague threatens the bees with extinction.

Q & A Skype interview with filmmaker Markus Imhoof.

Markus Imhoof. 2013. 91 m. PG. Germany/Switzerland/Austria, English/German with subtitles. Kino Lorber Films.

Official Website / Trailer

Tickets: $7 (members), $12 (nonmembers)
For more info about the event visit the Jacob Burns Film Center, Focus on Nature webpage

Wednesday, October 9th
7:15PM
Jacob Burns Film Center
364 Manville Road, Pleasantville, NY

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Film Series: Lost Rivers October 2nd, Jacob Burns Film Center (Pleasantville)

Jacob Burns Film Center presents Focus on Nature Film Series: Lost Rivers

Once upon a time, rivers flowed in almost every city, but we developed their banks and polluted their waters, making them conduits for disease. The only solution was to hide them underground. Lost Rivers takes us around the globe to explore these hidden pieces of urban nature and meet the visionaries who are bringing them back to light. Featuring a stunning “daylighting” success story for the Saw Mill River in Yonkers! • Caroline Bâche. 2012. 72 m. NR. Canada. Icarus Films.

Q&A Saw Mill River project facilitators Ann-Marie Mitroff (Groundwork Hudson Valley River Program Director) and Jim Pinto (former Yonkers Director of Waterfront Development), and Scenic Hudson President Ned Sullivan.

Caroline Bâche. 2012. 72 m. NR. Canada. Icarus Films.

Official Website / Trailer

Wed. Oct 2nd 7:15 pm

Tickets: $7 (members), $12 (nonmembers)

Wednesday, October 2nd
7:15PM
Jacob Burns Film Center
364 Manville Road, Pleasantville, NY

For more info visit the Jacob Burns Film Center, Focus on Nature webpage

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Pleasantville Music Festival: Saturday, July 13th, Pleasantville

The 9th Annual Pleasantville Music Festival!

This years' line-up includes Brett Dennen, Easy Star All-Stars, Red Wanting Blue, The Kopecky Family Band, Bobby Long, Delta Rae, and Mary C and the Stellars.

Tickets will go on-sale on or about June 1, 2013. This family-friendly event is held in the place described by GQ Magazine as "the second best smelling city in the world" features vendors and exhibitors offering great food, beverages, tasty treats, crafts, public service information and more.  A fantastic kids' fun area includes face painting, games and music.

Check here for sponsorship and vendor application information.

The Pleasantville Music Festival is a Public/Private Volunteer driven annual event. We are dedicated to promoting the original music of local performers and artists and supporting the work of community organizations.

Please remember that is a Zero Waste Event!

For more information, visit http://www.pleasantvillemusicfestival.com/index.html

Saturday, July 13
The gates open at 12 Noon. Music continues until 8:30PM
See website for Parking Information

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"Climate Change and Sea Level Rise: What Can We Expect?": Friday, June 7th, Pleasantville, NY

Conservation Cafe´presents the next Conservations on Conservation...

"Climate Change and Sea Level Rise: What Can We Expect?"

In recent years the frequency and intensity of storms in our area has been on the rise, and as we are still in the midst of clean-up from Hurricane Sandy, climate change and its effect on sea level rise is top of mind. Find out what climate change is, what its effects are on our oceans and rivers, and the impacts of extreme weather in our local communities.

Speakers

* Andy Revkin, Senior Fellow for Environmental Understanding at Pace University's Academy for Applied Environmental Studies, who will give a broad overview of climate change, rising oceans, and their possible impact on New York State.  

 

* Adam Whelchel, Ph.D. Director of Science at The Nature Conservancy/Connecticut Chapter, who will speak about how sea level rise may impact Long Island Sound. 

 

* Mark Lowery, Climate Policy Analyst in the office of Climate Change at New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, who will talk about the sea level rise along the Hudson River and how New York State can respond to it.  

 

A panel discussion with a question-and-answer session will follow the formal presentations.

 

Registration begins at 8:30 a.m.; the program begins at 8:45 a.m. 

 

 

This is a FREE program, and all are welcome to join.  

 

To RSVP:

                     By Phone: 914-422-4053

                     By Email: fcwc@fcwc.org

                     Online: www.fcwc.org/events

Friday, June 7th
Registration 8AM, Program 8:45AM

Pace University Pleasantville Campus: Gottesman Room, Kessel Student Center, Entrance 3

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Weekly Saturday Farmers Markets

Brewster Farmers' Market

208 E. Main Street

Brewster, NY 10509

9AM - 2PM

http://www.betterbrewster.org/market.html

Chappaqua Farmer's Market

St. Mary’s Church

191 S. Greeley Ave

Chappaqua, NY 10514

8:30AM - 1PM

http://chappaquafarmersmarket.org/

Gossett's Farm Market
1202 Route 35
South Salem, NY 10590
9AM - 1PM (all year round)
http://www.gossettnursery.com/farmers-market/

John Jay Homestead Farm Market
400 Jay Street
Katonah, NY 10536
9AM - 1PM
http://johnjayhomestead.org/events/farmmarket.html

Pleasantville Farmers Market
Memorial Plaza Parking Lot
Pleasantville, NY10570
8:30AM-1PM
https://www.facebook.com/PvilleFarmMarket


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Transition Westchester, Monday April 23, Pleasantville

2nd Quarter General Meeting of Transition Westchester
What you probably won't hear about at Earth Day events - Why are gasoline prices high and what you can do because of it.  Click here to learn more









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Gasland Film Screening, Tuesday, Oct 5, Pleasantville

GASLAND

Jacob Burns Film Center

in Pleasantville, NY

Tuesday, October 5

7:15 pm ticket pick-up

Reception w/ refreshments

This Sundance award-winning documentary, depicting the dangers of extracting natural gas by horizontal hydrofracking, is sponsored by community, religious and environmental organizations,* the program will begin at 7:30 PM with a short reception with refreshments, followed by the screening of "Gasland."  Questions will be answered afterwards by Economist Dr. Jannette Barth; Nadia Steinzor of Earthworks Oil and Gas Accountability Project; and a home owner who’s in the heart of fracking’s devastation in Pennsylvania. A post-screening reception will follow offering an opportunity for you to meet with our panelists in person and question several political candidates that are running this November.  This marks the first event in an educational program about horizontal hydrofracking.

Tickets:  $12

Reservations are needed (we're almost full!)

Call:  Susan at 769-6656 or esmesu @gmail .com

She will hold your ticket at the door

* Event sponsors:

Croton Watershed Clean Water Coalition (CWCWC) in collaboration with Oil and Gas Accountability Project (OGAP), BECZAK Environmental Education Center, Bedford Audubon Society, Concerned Residents of Carmel-Mahopac (CRCM), Federation of Conservationists of Westchester County (FCWC), Friends of the Great Swamp (FRoGS), GreenYorktown, League of Women Voters of Larchmont/Mamaroneck (LWV), Morgenthau Preserve, Pound Ridge Land Conservancy, Putnam County Coalition to Preserve Open Space, Religious Organizations Along River (ROAR), Rusticus Garden Club, Saw Mill River Audubon Society, Sierra Club Lower Hudson Group, Teatown Land Reservation, Trout Unlimited Croton Watershed Chapter, and Westchester Land Trust

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Community Garden Network Summit

 INTERGENERATE has pulled together numerous organizations for a Community Garden Summit to be held Sunday, February 7th 

When: Sunday, February 7th, Noon-3pm

Where: Westchester County Center

If you are interested in participating in or starting a community garden come to this event. It's free!

- Learn from seasoned community gardeners
- Network with other community gardeners
- Gather information to start a new garden
Admission to the Westchester Community Garden Network is free, but space is limited and advance registration is required. To register, log onto
http://intergenerate.community.officelive.com/WestchesterCommunityGardenNetwork.aspx
For more information, e-mail info@intergenerateny.org or call Roseann Rutherford at 914-393-7169.

Presented By: InterGenerate
Sponsored by:
Bedford Audobon
Bedford Garden Club
Cornell Cooperative
Groundwork Hudson Valley
Lewisboro Garden Club
Marsh Sanctuary
Natural Awakenings
Rusticus Garden Club
Slow Food Westchester
Ward Acres Community Garden, New Rochelle
Westchester County Parks
Westchester Land Trust 
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