Raising Awareness Through Film: “What We Do to Nature, We Do to Ourselves”

Artist, Andrea Bowers, brought us the “Exist, Flourish, Evolve” art show (https://www.mocacleveland.org/exhibit…) on Rights of Nature & the Great Lakes and also offers this documentary film, “What We Do To Nature, We Do To Ourselves”.

The art show and documentary are being shown as a two-location experience located at the Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art and the Great Lakes Science Center in Cleveland, Ohio through May 26, 2024. Law and culture. Culture and law. Which comes first, and how are they related?

CELDF and partners hosted Part 1 – Truth, Reckoning, and Right Relationship with the Great Lakes in the fall of 2023 to wrestle with these very questions. Those in attendance heard a range of truths from doctors, lawyers, indigenous activists, educators, students, religious practitioners, artists, environmental regulators, and community activists – young and old – along with their personal reckonings and the collective challenges that face us all in the current state of the ill-health of the Great Lakes and the world at large.

We now want to share these powerful testimonies with everyone as we prepare for Part 2 Right Relationship in April 2024. Grounding ourselves in honesty to move away from systems and legal structures that do not protect Nature, including ourselves, allows us to move towards a new system grounded in right relationship with water, Nature and ourselves.

CELDF has released each testimony from the event in our Truth & Reckoning Playlist (Truth & Reckoning) so you can share them and use them to help others reflect in your community. Curious to know more? Contact CELDF at https://celdf.org/contact/ Visit CELDF at https://celdf.org/ Support CELDF at https://celdf.org/donate/