Join us at the Buckhead store for a film screening and Q&A with the filmmaker! We'll be showing Where The Butterflies Go, a comedic documentary about the monarch butterfly, and mingling with nonprofits who are part of the Georgia Pollinator Partnership.
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Film Synopsis: In a pathetic attempt to host his own children’s nature show, a failing filmmaker travels 3,000 miles asking North Americans how to save the endangered monarch butterfly, and ourselves, from extinction.
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All ages are welcome* and we'll have refreshments, fresh popcorn, and a chance to win some gear with all proceeds benefitting our local nonprofit partner and recent Environmental Grantee, West Atlanta Watershed Alliance. Come out to support the Georgia Pollinator Partnership to learn about how you can help protect our important pollinators + get involved with organizations such as Captain Planet, Chattahoochee Nature Center, Monarchs Across Georgia, and more who are working together to educate Georgians and create and restore viable pollinator habitats.Â
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*We have 2 versions of the film, a shorter all ages version and a 72 minute PG-13 version we can play depending on our audience for the evening.
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34 E. Andrews Dr. NW
Atlanta, GA 30305
Doors 6:00pm Film 6:45pm
The West Atlanta Watershed Alliance (WAWA) is a community-based nonprofit organization whose mission is to improve the quality of life within the West Atlanta Watershed by protecting, preserving and restoring our community’s natural resources. WAWA represents African American neighborhoods in Northwest and Southwest Atlanta that are most inundated with environmental stressors, but are least represented at environmental decision-making tables.
WAWA operates the Outdoor Activity Center (OAC), a 26-acre urban forest preserve and nature center. WAWA is a Black-led organization with a small, but dedicated staff of environmental educators, stewards and activists. WAWA also co-stewards the nearby 135-acre Cascade Springs Nature Preserve and the 200-acre Lionel Hampton Beecher Park; all in Southwest Atlanta.
GAPP works to create and restore viable pollinator habitats around Atlanta for butterflies, bees, moths, bats, hummingbirds, and other beneficial animals by educating audiences about pollinator decline and promoting the use of pollinator gardens as a solution.
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GAPP was initiated in 2009 in response to the rapid and significant changes in our landscape caused by the Atlanta housing boom of the 1990’s and early 2000’s. GAPP was initially started as the Greater Atlanta Pollinator Partnership. In 2020, the Georgia Department of Natural Resources joined the GAPP partnership, and we expanded to what is now the Georgia Pollinator Partnership.
The goals of Georgia Pollinator Partnership:
- Educate and inform about pollinator conservation.
- Involve residential neighborhoods, schools, colleges and universities, local businesses, nature centers, houses of worship, and parks to help support pollinator conservation research & habitat restoration.
- Develop clear guidelines for pollinator-friendly habitat design and installation, and also restore both abandoned or endangered sites.
- Foster a pollinator conservation network across Georgia via an interactive pollinator garden map.
