About In Our Nature Film Screening

In a time of rising loneliness, disconnection, and division, this is the story of how nature – and those who teach with it – are helping us find our way back to each other.

We’re thrilled to co-host a screening of “In Our Nature” in partnership with the Massachusetts Environmental Education Society (MEES).

In Our Nature is a 60-minute documentary exploring how nature-based education can help us reconnect in a time of rising loneliness, division, and environmental uncertainty. Through three powerful stories – from a flower farm on Chicago’s South Side, to a forest school in rural Kentucky, to a healing-in-nature program for military families in San Antonio – the film reveals how connection to the natural world can bridge divides, strengthen communities, and support youth mental health. Both urgent and hopeful, In Our Nature shows why access to nature isn’t a luxury, but essential to what it means to be human.

Join us for a film that’s equal parts honest and hopeful, followed by meaningful conversation.

Directed and Co-Produced by James Parker, an award-winning documentary filmmaker and founder of Synchronous Pictures and Co-Produced by Juliet Grable, an independent writer based in Southern Oregon who combines a background in the natural sciences with innate curiosity and a passion for language.

Light refreshments will be provided.

If you are located in the western half of the state, there will be a second screening on Saturday, 2/28 at the Hitchcock Center for the Environment in Amherst, MA.

These film screenings are hosted by MEES in collaboration with the The Trustees and the Hitchcock Center for the Environment.

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