Please come to see an important film “The Economics of Happiness” that the Center, together with Peace Fresno, will be showing next Wednesday, December 14, both at 12 noon and in the evening at 7 p.m. (doors open at 6:30 p.m.)
It will be shown at the Center at midday, but the evening showing will be at Woodward Park Regional Library, 944 E. Perrin. Really easy to find but call if you need help. Although the show is free as always, we are hoping that you will consider making a donation as the film cost us more than we anticipated.
Angela Price will also be talking on the phone from Australia with Helena Norberg-Hodge, the acclaimed writer and director of this film during the Center’s “Stir It Up” radio show on the same day, Wednesday, December 14, on KFCF 88.1 from 3 to 3:30 p.m. It will be a live call and so you can call in and ask questions
Please call the Center at 237-3223 for more information. Here is the original post.
Wednesday, December 14 at 12 noon and 7 p.m. The Center, together with Peace Fresno, will be showing the Central Valley premiere of the film “The Economics of Happiness” .There will be two showings – one at 12 noon at 1584 N. Van Ness, Fresno, and the other at 7 p.m. at the Woodward Park Regional Library, 944 E. Perrin, Fresno. The film describes a world moving simultaneously in two opposing directions: while government and Big Business push for a globalized economy based on high technology and increased trade, people all over the world are working from the grassroots to nurture smaller scale, ecological, local economies. We hear from a chorus of voices from six continents including Samdhong Rinpoche, the Prime Minister of Tibet’s government in exile, Vandana Shiva, Bill McKibben, David Korten and Zac Goldsmith. The Economics of Happiness restores our faith in humanity, and challenges us to believe that it is possible to build a better world.
“It is good news indeed to find so persuasive an explanation of our ailing world as The Economics of Happiness. This film connects the dots between climate chaos, economic meltdown, and our own personal suffering– stress, loneliness, and depression. It presents the localization movement as a systemic alternative to corporate globalization, as well as a strategy that brings community and meaning to our lives.”– Joanna Macy author of World as Lover, World as Self
“A must-see film for the future of the planet.”– Zac Goldsmith, Member of UK Parliament
The film is free and open to the public but donations would be very welcome. For more information call FCNV at 559-237-3223. .Check the website too to see a trailer of the film www.theeconomicsofhappiness.org. .
