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Ice On Fire: Coming Together to Put Out the Climate Crisis

3790 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90010, USA

34.0614896 -118.3087587

The Wiltern

Description

What is this event? A screening of Leonardo DiCaprio's narrated and produced Ice On Fire, followed by a discussion on practical solutions to combat the climate crisis. Complimentary bites by Kye's Montana to the first 100 guests. Auction with prizes donated by Patagonia, The Wiltern, and Parks Project. On Tuesday, September 10, join The Wiltern and Los Angeles based community organizations when we all come together under one roof to showcase and discuss practical solutions to the climate crisis, letting you walkaway with instructions to living a more environmentally conscious lifestyle. A limited amount of complimentary tickets will be available for redemption starting August, 22, with the opportunity to leave a donation benefiting Tree Media (https://www.treemedia.com/). The event begins with an opening reception hosting community organizations including Heal The Bay, Surfrider, Friends of the LA River, SoCal 350, Food Cycle, Sunrise Movement, Tree Media, LA SAN, Clean Air Coalition, Peta, Climate Reality, Plastic Pollution Coalition, Parks Project, LADWP, NRDC, LA Metro. Grab a bingo card and play with us while getting to know the amazing groups that work in Los Angeles to make California a more sustainable place. HBO documentary Ice on Fire is set to start at 8:00 PM and is followed by a panel discussion with Leila Conners (Director, Ice On Fire), Dr. Cris B. Liban, P.E., ENV SP (Executive Officer, Environmental Compliance and Sustainability, LA Metro), Doug Walters (CSO, City of LA, LASAN), Matt Petersen (President and CEO, LACI), Dr. Ietef "DJ CAVEM" Vita (Eco HipHop Artist & Vegan Chef). Moderated by LA Times reporter Sammy Roth. This event is made possible by Los Angeles Sanitation & Environment, The Wiltern, LA Metro, The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California and HBO. DJ set by DJ CAVEM. In kind donations by Kye's Montana, Parks Project, Just Water, Narrative Foods and Patagonia. Schedule of the evening: 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM - Meet The Community - learn what community organizations are doing to fight the crisis. With: Heal The Bay, Surfrider, Friends of the LA River, SoCal 350, Food Cycle, Sunrise Movement, Tree Media, LA SAN, Clean Air Coalition, Peta, Climate Reality, Plastic Pollution Coalition, Parks Project, LADWP, NRDC, LA Metro. 8:00 PM PM - 9:40 PM - Ice On Fire a film by Leila Conners 9:40 PM - 10:30 PM - Q&A Panel with Leila Conners (Director, Ice On Fire), Dr. Cris B. Liban, P.E., ENV SP (Executive Officer, Environmental Compliance and Sustainability, LA Metro), Doug Walters (CSO, City of LA, LASAN), Matt Petersen (President and CEO, LACI), Dr. Ietef "DJ CAVEM" Vita (Eco HipHop Artist & Vegan Chef). Moderated by LA Times reporter Sammy Roth. About Ice On Fire, a film by Leila Conners: Produced by Oscar-winner Leonardo DiCaprio, George DiCaprio and Mathew Schmid and directed by Leila Conners, Ice on Fire is an eye-opening documentary that focuses on many never-before-seen solutions designed to slow down our escalating environmental crisis. The film goes beyond the current climate change narrative and offers hope that we can actually stave off the worst effects of global warming. Eleven years after Conners’ first collaboration with DiCaprio on The 11th Hour, which emphasized the problems of climate change, Ice on Fire instead focuses on the cutting-edge research behind today’s climate science – and the innovations aimed at reducing carbon in the atmosphere, which could pave the way for a reduction in the global temperature rise and a benefit to the planet’s life systems. With sweeping cinematography of a world worth saving, Ice on Fire was filmed across the globe, from Norway to Alaska, Iceland to Colorado, Switzerland to Costa Rica to Connecticut. The film highlights firsthand accounts of people at the forefront of the climate crisis, with insights from scientists, farmers, innovators and others. Ice on Fire emphasizes the importance of an immediate, two-pronged approach to reversing the crisis: reducing carbon emissions through traditional renewable energy sources and new ones, like tidal energy, and implementing “drawdown” measures, focusing on methods for drawing down and sequestering carbon, including direct air capture, sea farms, urban farms, biochar, marine snow, bionic leaves and others. While much of the political and economic focus has been on the energy sector, the film points out that drawdown (pulling CO2 out of the atmosphere and oceans and sequestering it underground or into new materials) is perhaps the best hope for mitigating climate change. The film visits places such as: the Usal Redwood Forest Foundation in northern California, highlighting a carbon-storage project that focuses on reforestation and creates “biochar” to put CO2 back into the soil; Ron Finley’s urban farm in Los Angeles, where members of the community grow food that takes carbon out of the air and is nutritious; Climeworks’ nimble direct air capture machine in Zurich; and Thimble Island Ocean Farm off the coast of Connecticut, where owner Bren Smith grows shellfish and seaweed that soak up more carbon than land-based plants and can be used for food, animal feed and fertilizer. Ice on Fire finds that while the risks and urgency may be higher than ever today, there are also greater opportunities for innovative solutions, offering a realistic but hopeful perspective on a key global issue that demands our attention. Ice on Fire is directed by Leila Conners; narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio; producers, Leonardo DiCaprio, Mathew Schmid and Leila Conners; executive producers, George DiCaprio, Roee Sharon Peled; cinematography by Harun Mehmedinovic. For HBO: executive producers, Nancy Abraham and Lisa Heller.

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Tickets

General Admission - FREE 0.0 USD

Pastel P6 Hat 5.0 USD 1

Chucker Hat 15.0 USD 1

PRIVATE SHUTTLE Roundtrip West Side to East Side - 6 seats left 20.0 USD 13

Houdini Jacket Women 40.0 USD 1

Re Tool Pullover 50.0 USD 1

Patagonia Chachabuko 50.0 USD 1

Parks Project 56.0 USD 1

Men's Pullover 70.0 USD 1

Narrative 100.0 USD 1

Mens Hudini Jacket 100.0 USD 1

Mens Down Sweater 120.0 USD 1

Womens down sweater 130.0 USD 1