Occupy Love + Reactor with Director Ian MacKenzie

Join us for a special FREE screening of Occupy Love, preceded by the short Reactor, a journey to post-Fukushima Japan. Filmmaker Ian MacKenzie will be in attendence to introduce the films + offer a Q&A.

REACTOR (32 mins) 
directed by Ian MacKenzie

In April 2012, Yogi, Buddhist teacher and activist Michael Stone arrives on a pilgrimage to Japan in the wake of the tsunami and Fukushima meltdown to learn how the Japanese are responding to the crisis. Michael speaks with local residents, artists, activists, and researchers about life in the aftermath and reflects on the old Zen traditions and cities of beautiful temples. How we can embody the Bodhisattva vow in this time?

REACTOR is a short film that aims to uncover how and why we can let go of old stories, and move towards personal and social awakening by bringing to light our interconnectedness and showing us that our actions matter.

OCCUPY LOVE (86 mins)
directed by Velcrow Ripper
co-produced by Ian MacKenzie, Nova Ami

From the Arab Spring to the European Summer, from the Occupy Movement to the global climate justice movement to #IdleNoMore, a profound shift is taking place: humanity is waking up to the fact that the dominant system of power is failing to provide us with health, happiness or meaning.

The old paradigm that concentrates wealth, founded on the greed of the few, is collapsing. Endless growth on a finite planet cannot be sustained. The resulting crisis has become the catalyst for a profound transformation: millions of people are deciding that enough is enough – the time has come to create a new world, a world that works for all life.

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