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Join us for Andersonville Green Week!
Summer is here and in Andersonville that means no shortage of fun things to do, especially if it’s Green Week.
Events like Midsommarfest, the Farmers Market, Taste of Andersonville, and many others make our hometown ‘hood a blast during summer months. One of our favorites—Andersonville Green Week—is just around the corner and promises not to disappoint.
A week-long celebration of living green, Andersonville Green Week showcases our neighborhood’s sustainability efforts with workshops, performances, tours of eco-certified businesses, and more. This year’s festivities—which take place from July 11th through the 17th—will include a pop-up green space, film screenings, special presentations at the Wednesday Farmers Market, as well as many other business-specific events. There are dozens of ways to get involved and enjoy the eco-friendly fun. Here are details on the events that Mightybytes is co-sponsoring:
Green Week Brew-Off
Co-sponsored by Mightybytes, Brew Camp, Eco-Andersonville, and Hamburger Mary’s, the Green Week Brew-Off celebrates local home-brewers in a casual, fun environment. Taste up to fifteen home-brewed elixirs and vote for your favorites. Or better yet, enter your own concoction and take home cash prizes!
- When: Thursday, July 14, 2011
- Time: 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
- Where: Hamburger Mary’s, 5400 N. Clark Street in Chicago
- Cost: $10.00 per person at the door
Are you a home-brewer? Enter your favorite elixir now . . . contest is limited to only 15 contestants on a first come-first served basis!
Film Screenings
Last year, the screening of Oscar-nominated documentary Gasland that we co-sponsored with Chicago Filmmakers was a full-house affair. This year, we are upping the ante a bit with not one but three screenings of films related to sustainability, conservation and the climate crisis. Check ‘em out:
If a Tree Falls
Get yourself in an eco frame of mind before Green Week even starts with a special advanced screening of this documentary on eco-terrorism and the Earth Liberation Front. Thought-provoking and purposefully ambiguous, the film sheds light on the darker side of living green. If a Tree Falls premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and here’s what they had to say:
“Marshall Curry’s documentary tells a timely story of political action and environmental beliefs at loggerheads. His reconstruction of the recent history and unraveling of the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) is a fascinating exploration of a modern revolutionary movement and its efficacy… Detailing activists’ past disillusionment with public protest—and the police brutality and inertia that often followed—the film poses difficult questions about the possibility of effecting change from either within or without the system and examines the changed stakes for revolutionaries today in a world fixated on branding all dissenters as terrorists.”
For more info on If a Tree Falls, check out the film’s website or watch the trailer below.
- When: Friday, July 8, 2011, 8:00 p.m.
- Cost: $8.00 suggested donation
Carbon Nation
Bypassing politics and finger pointing, this forward-thinking documentary zeroes in on enterprising individuals—from a wind farmer to a solar-panel retrofitter—who are devising business-minded ways to avert the looming climate crisis. The cross-country expedition yields encounters with Virgin Group CEO Richard Branson, Earth Day founder Denis Hayes and former CIA director James Woolsey, along with everyday pioneers in low-carbon living.
Also: Check out Bill’s review of Carbon Nation on our blog or find out more about the film at the Carbon Nation website. Better yet, watch the trailer below:
- When: Friday, July 15, 2011, 8:00 p.m.
- Cost: FREE!
All screenings will take place at Chicago Filmmakers, 5243 North Clark Street in Chicago.
We are excited to be a part of bringing these films to Andersonville and sharing in the festivities of Andersonville Green Week. If you need more information, drop us a line. Otherwise, we look forward to sharing these events with you!