Living Downstream: Summer Reads Movie Night
Date: Thu. July 12, 2012
Time: 6:30 pm
Location:
Daley, Richard M.-W Humboldt
733 N. Kedzie Avenue
60612
About this event:
Based on the acclaimed book by ecologist and cancer survivor Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D., Living Downstream is an eloquent and cinematic documentary film.
This poetic film follows Sandra during one pivotal year as she travels across North America, working to break the silence about cancer and its environmental links. After a routine cancer screening, Sandra receives some worrying results and is thrust into a period of medical uncertainty. Thus, we begin two journeys with Sandra: her private struggles with cancer and her public quest to bring attention to the urgen human rights issue of cancer prevention.
But Sandra is not the only one who is on a journey--the chemicals against which she is fighting are also on the move. We follow these invisible toxins as they migrate to some of the most beautiful places in North America. We see how these chimicals enter our bodies and how, once inside, scientists believe they may be working to cause cancer.
At once Sandra's personal journey and her scientific exploration, Living Downstream is a powerful reminder of the intimate connection between the health of our bodies and the health of our air, land and water. (2010, 60 min., dvd projection)
This program is a You Are What You Read: Summer Reads for Adults program, made possible with support from the Chicago Public Library Foundation.
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