Rising Tide & Environmental Film Festival present:
The First Wave & Water Is Life
A Double Feature community event, focussed on climate action and activism, in honour of the 2024 People’s Blockade campaign.
Rising Tide Double Feature Community Screening
19:00 - 20.30, Wed 11 Sep, CERES Learning Centre
Entry by Donation.
19:00 - Doors
19:10 - Introduction
19:15 - Water Is Life (2018)
19:40 - Break
19:50 - The First Wave (2024)
20:10 - Community Gathering & Supper
What’s happening.
In honour of the 2024 People’s Blockade campaign, Rising Tide and EFFA are co-presenting a double-feature screening of The First Wave (2024) and Water is Life (2018).
Join us at CERES on Wednesday 11 September from 7pm for a special film event centered on climate activism and the power of community.
Come together with like-minded local people, be inspired by activists across Australia and see how you can support climate action.
Entry by donation. Refreshments served.
The First Wave (2024)
At the end of the hottest year in human history, a Rising Tide of everyday people shut down the world’s largest coal port for 32 hours. The First Wave is a short film covering the epic ‘People’s Blockade 2023’, with footage from the beach, water, and sky, with Rising Tide organisers and blockaders detailing how this historic event came together.
Water Is Life (2018)
First nations people across the globe have been caring for country since time immemorial. Communities on the frontlines of extractactive industries right across the country are fighting to keep water, country and our climate safe from the impacts of fossil fuel corporations.
Water is Life follows Aboriginal activists from the NT as they travel to the United States to learn more about the impacts of fracking and how communities how the power to stop the companies who are keen on profits, but not accountability.
About Rising Tide.
Rising Tide is a grass roots climate justice group building a movement of civil resistance to the fossil fuel industrial complex for a fossil fuel free future. We are the rising tide of ordinary people, called by extraordinary times. We are a diverse movement demanding Australia honours our commitment to the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement. We are prepared to take whatever peaceful actions are within our power to defend the climate.
Find out more at risingtide.org.au.
Location.
CERES Learning Centre
Lee Street, Brunswick East, VIC 3057
Wheelchair accessible.
