Earth Day Celebration with Rockaway Film Festival

Rockaway Film Festival will open for outdoor movies on Sunday, April 21 with their 3rd Annual Earth Day event in collaboration with Laru Beya Collective, Buena Onda Collective, and Jamaica Bay Rockaway Parks Conservancy.

The Dubos Point Wildlife Sanctuary is an important natural area on Jamaica Bay. Its salt marshes provide habitat for local wildlife and migratory birds and help clean our waterways. Join us in removing trash from our neighboring wetland and collecting materials for an upcycled art project headed by Buena Onda Collective. The cleanup will take place from 3-6pm.

At 6pm, we’ll open the Arverne Cinema (72-02 Gouverneur Ave, 11692). Buena Onda Collective will create and display large cyanotypes using debris collected from the cleanup. There also will be a raffle for items donated by Patagonia and Blundstone, including boots and a wetsuit. Raffle tickets will be $10 and all clean-up volunteers will automatically be entered. The proceeds from the raffle will support Laru Beya.

At 8pm, the screening will start. Franco Piavoli’s 1982 feature The Blue Planet is a gorgeous meditation on earth’s everyday beauty. Moving through the seasons of the year with nearly no dialogue, the film is guided by sounds of running water, rustling leaves, and other wondrous symphonies of nature.

“A poem, a voyage, a concert on nature, universe, life. A different image from the one we always see." ―Andrei Tarkovsky

All Earth Day events are free, family-friendly, and open to the public.

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