"If there's hope for the human race, there's hope for the Hudson."
-Pete Seeger, 1969
In the 1960s, the American folk musician Pete Seeger devised an extraordinary plan: he built a 106-foot sailboat to save the polluted Hudson River.
Down by the Riverside follows the unlikely story of the Clearwater, a boat that launched a movement. An intimate portrait of Pete, his wife Toshi, and the grassroots community they anchored for over 40 years, the film takes the audience on a musical and nautical odyssey, showing how an unconventional campaign to save a beloved American waterway prompted a green revolution.
The tale of the Clearwater is a parable for our time, offering hope for a fractured nation and revealing how participatory imagination can solve environmental problems and transform how we relate not only to the earth but also to one another.
Join us after the screening for a conversation with directors Jodie Childers and Dan Messina!
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-Pete Seeger, 1969
In the 1960s, the American folk musician Pete Seeger devised an extraordinary plan: he built a 106-foot sailboat to save the polluted Hudson River.
Down by the Riverside follows the unlikely story of the Clearwater, a boat that launched a movement. An intimate portrait of Pete, his wife Toshi, and the grassroots community they anchored for over 40 years, the film takes the audience on a musical and nautical odyssey, showing how an unconventional campaign to save a beloved American waterway prompted a green revolution.
The tale of the Clearwater is a parable for our time, offering hope for a fractured nation and revealing how participatory imagination can solve environmental problems and transform how we relate not only to the earth but also to one another.
Join us after the screening for a conversation with directors Jodie Childers and Dan Messina!
"If there's hope for the human race, there's hope for the Hudson."
-Pete Seeger, 1969
In the 1960s, the American folk musician Pete Seeger devised an extraordinary plan: he built a 106-foot sailboat to save the polluted Hudson River.
Down by the Riverside follows the unlikely story of the Clearwater, a boat that launched a movement. An intimate portrait of Pete, his wife Toshi, and the grassroots community they anchored for over 40 years, the film takes the audience on a musical and nautical odyssey, showing how an unconventional campaign to save a beloved American waterway prompted a green revolution.
The tale of the Clearwater is a parable for our time, offering hope for a fractured nation and revealing how participatory imagination can solve environmental problems and transform how we relate not only to the earth but also to one another.
Join us after the screening for a conversation with directors Jodie Childers and Dan Messina!
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-Pete Seeger, 1969
In the 1960s, the American folk musician Pete Seeger devised an extraordinary plan: he built a 106-foot sailboat to save the polluted Hudson River.
Down by the Riverside follows the unlikely story of the Clearwater, a boat that launched a movement. An intimate portrait of Pete, his wife Toshi, and the grassroots community they anchored for over 40 years, the film takes the audience on a musical and nautical odyssey, showing how an unconventional campaign to save a beloved American waterway prompted a green revolution.
The tale of the Clearwater is a parable for our time, offering hope for a fractured nation and revealing how participatory imagination can solve environmental problems and transform how we relate not only to the earth but also to one another.
Join us after the screening for a conversation with directors Jodie Childers and Dan Messina!
show less
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