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Saturday, February 4, 2012

Ticket table/Doors Open at 9:30 a.m. -- Pre-Registration is strongly encouraged as space is limited.

Panel discussion and screening of The New Metropolis from 10:00 A.M-2:00 P.M. at Rialto Cinemas Cerrito, 10070 San Pablo Avenue, El Cerrito, CA 94530
Jazz vocalist Jennifer Johns will provide a spirited opening to the day.  Award-winning filmmaker Andrea Torrice will show segments from her recent PBS series, The New Metropolis, as well as premiere a new segment about the Bay Area.

Following the screening, community dialog groups continue from 12:30 P.M-2:00 P.M. next door at Nong Thon Vietnamese restaurant in El Cerrito, with complimentary appetizers provided by the City of El Cerrito. Group discussions will focus on themes such as Food and Water; Housing and Transportation; Health and Air Quality; Climate Change Adaptation; the Role of Education, Arts and Media; and Economic Development.

The event is free and open to the public.  Both venues are wheelchair accessible.

Tickets: Free, but registration is strongly encouraged. Register by sending your name and number of tickets to the email link on the right side of this page.

Invited presenters and panelists include:

• Janet Abelson, El Cerrito Council member and transit policy expert
• Carl Anthony, architect, author, regional design strategist, Co-Founder of Breakthrough Communities, and former Director of the Ford Foundation's Sustainable Metropolitan Communities Initiative and the Regional Equity Demonstration in the United States;
• Mark DeSaulnierDesaulnier, State Senator
• Loni Hancock, State Senator
• Paloma Pavel, PhD, El Cerrito Environmental Quality Committee member, author of Breakthrough Communities: Sustainability and Justice in the Next American Metropolis (MIT Press), and Vice President of West Contra Costa County League of Women Voters
• Nancy Skinner, State Assembly
• Andrea Torrice, Filmmaker, The New Metropolis
• Will Travis, Outgoing director Bay Area Conservation and Development Commission and incoming Policy Director of One Bay Area

The post-screening community dialogues will be facilitated by members of the El Cerrito Environmental Quality Committee, the League of Women Voters, and, representatives from the Regional Asthma Management Project, California Walks, Association of Bay Area Governments, Contra Costa County Supervisor John Gioia’s Office, Public Advocates, Transform, Urban Habitat, Genisis, Alameda County Office of Education, Bay Localize and elected officials from the City of Clayton, the City of El Cerrito, the City of Richmond and AC Transit.

The City of El Cerrito Environmental Quality Committee's Eco-Film series was developed to educate, inspire and encourage community participation in a wide range of environmental quality and sustainability issues.