>X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 15:44:55 -0800 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: "Suzanne L. Hodges" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: ReInventing the World to Broadcast Soon >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Status: > >Hello! > >The 5-part series "ReInventing the World" is going to broadcast in April on >Vison TV. Thank you so much for participating in these documentaries. We >look forward to hearing your thoughts on the various episodes. > >In the meantime, it would be great if you could please help us spread the >word far and wide to anyone you think might be interested in seeing these >documentaries on television. Please forward the details below to your >colleagues, friends, family, etc ... Thanks!! > >Hope all is well, >Sincerely, >Suzanne >Asterisk Productions > > > >FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 15, 2001 > >�REINVENTING THE WORLD� - A FIVE-PART DOCUMENTARY SERIES ON VISION TV IN >CANADA. >PRODUCED BY VICTORIA�S ASTERISK PRODUCTIONS > >We all have ideas on what�s wrong with the world.... but many of us are at >a loss about how to fix it. > >�ReInventing the World� is a provocative five-part documentary series that >introduces us to innovative people from B.C. to Brazil, and their ideas for >practical solutions to the big problems affecting all of us. > >Hosted by B.C.�s author, gardener and activist Des Kennedy, and beginning >on April 4, each program offers clear alternatives in an understandable >way, to the questions we�re all facing at the beginning of this new >millennium. > >The five episodes will broadcast on Vision TV as follows: > >�Food� - asks: how can we reinvent the food system so it�s safe, fair and >affordable to all? A highlight is the remarkable city of Belo Horizonte, >Brazil, where people asked: why can�t food be a right - and then >set about making it so. Featuring Frances Moore Lappe, Rod McRae, Brewster >Kneen among others. >WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 9:00 PM > >�Work and Time� - asks: why are we either overworked, under-worked or out >of work and why are so many of us constantly running out of time? >Featuring Stewart Brand, Paul Hawken, Matthew Fox, �El Vez� the Mexican >Elvis among others. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 9:00 PM > >�Cities� - looks at urban sustainability and asks: if sustainability is >such a good thing why is it so hard to get there? Featuring a look at the >remarkable urban policies of Curitiba, Brazil and featuring Jane Jacobs, >Bill Rees, Bill McKibben and others. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 9:00 pm > >�Economics� - the dismal science comes alive in the wake of the Summit of >the Americas, where questions raised by protests in Quebec City, Seattle, >Davos and beyond get provocative responses and bring the issues home to >our own households. Featuring David Korten, Maude Barlow, Paul Hawken, Jim >Green, Amory and Hunter Lovins among others. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 9:00 pm > >�Cultivating Change� - is a radical garden tour that takes us to San >Francisco, Toronto and Vancouver Island to see how growing food can be a >remarkable avenue to social change. Featuring Cathrine Sneed�s prison >garden project; Providence Farm; the Raging Spoon Café and Bruce Ericson >Place�s rooftop garden in Vancouver�s downtown eastside. THURSDAY, MAY 3, >9:00 pm > >Please contact Asterisk Productions by email at [EMAIL PROTECTED] >or by phone (250)480-5256 or check our web site (www.asterisk.bc.ca) > >�ReInventing the World� was produced in association with Vision TV, the >Canadian Television Fund Licence Fee Program, Telefilm Canada: Equity >Investment Program, the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), >British Columbia Film, the Canadian Film or video Production Tax Credit, >the Province of British Columbia: Film Incentive B.C., Saskatchewan >Communications Network. >Produced by Asterisk Productions Ltd., Victoria, B.C. >
