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Arts & Entertainment

SUMMER CINEMA BY THE SEA - 2012

All films will be screened in the Murphy Bunker at the Marine Science Center.  Light refreshments will be served half an hour before the start of the program, and most films last for 1-1.5 hours.  The MSC is ADA-accessible, and no reservations are required.

Tuesday, May 22nd at 7:00pm
BAG IT
Try going a day without plastic. We follow "everyman" Jeb Berrier as he embarks on a global tour to unravel the complexities of our plastic world. What starts as a film about plastic bags evolves into a wholesale investigation into plastic's effects on our oceans, environment, and bodies.

Tuesday, June 19th at 7:00pm
A SENSE OF WONDER
Fifty years, ago backlash against "Silent Spring" thrust author Rachel Carson into the center of political maelstrom. In the final year of her life, Carson recounts the attacks by the chemical industry, the government, and the press as she focuses her limited energy to get her message to Congress and the American people. 

Tuesday, July 24th at 7:00pm
OCEAN FRONTIERS
This new film takes us on an inspiring voyage to seaports and watersheds across the country to meet an intermingling of unlikely allies of industrial shippers and whale biologists, farmers and fishermen, snorkelers and many more, all of them embarking on a new course of cooperation in defense of the seas that sustain us.

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