Sun Nov 7 1pm Alma Gallery, $6*
Host: Bill Barrett
As a primary school student in 1980s Sweden, Jacob Andrén participated in a class project designed to “save the rainforest.” Selling knick-knacks at a local flea market with his classmates yielded enough money for each student to “purchase” a tree in an endangered forest. And that was that.
Twenty-something years later, curious and skeptical, Jacob wonders if he and his schoolyard chums actually made any impact on the health of the forest. Cue the investigation to find his primary teacher, who digs out the old deed of purchase for a patch of trees in… Costa Rica. Not nearly sated,
Jacob travels to Central America to see firsthand the forest that over 400,000 Swedish kids attempted to protect one tree at a time. His journey is about actualizing the imaginary forest of twenty years ago, but also understanding what threats these forests are facing today.
Host: Bill Barrett
Bill is a key member of GIRC, GFOMM, and most recently the Plant an Old Growth Forest Project
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