Join us for a screening of two short films:

The Economics of Happiness (20 minutes)

Joanna Macy and the Great Turning (26 minutes)

“The Economics of Happiness” describes a world moving simultaneously in two opposing directions. On the one hand, government and big business continue to promote globalization and the consolidation of corporate power. At the same time, all around the world people are resisting those policies. Communities are coming together to re-build more human scale, ecological economies based on a new paradigm – an economics of localization. With input from many activists on every continent, the film demonstrates that a better world is not only possible, it is within our reach.

“Joanna Macy and The Great Turning” is a film about the opportunity we have to come alive to our truest power, to ‘look straight into the face of our time, which is the biggest gift we can give,’ and to participate in the Great Turning. This film offers short excerpts from an interview with Joanna Macy, longtime activist and author of Active Hope: How To Face The Mess We Are In Without Going Crazy. The Great Turning is a call to take part in this new “great adventure” in order to help create a more life-sustaining world.

Where: Woods Memorial Library, 19 Pleasant St, Barre, MA

When: Wednesday, November 6, 6–7:45pm

Free and Open to the Public. Light refreshments and conversation to follow

Presented by: Earth Sangha, Barre MA, a local community (sangha) of activists working together to face our ecological and climate crisis.

Contact: Willow Embry:  Earth Sangha, Barre Ma