October 12th at 7:30pm

Main Hall


Coastal Living Magazine presents


Jack Johnson’s Ocean Heroes


and the new documentary film


THE SMOG OF THE SEA
October 12, 2017


7:30 p.m.


 


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Coastal Living Magazine has partnered with singer-songwriter, surfer, and environmentalist
JACK JOHNSON to curate a list of scientists, advocates, visionaries, and deep sea legends who tirelessly fight to protect our seas from peril. These remarkable Ocean Heroes and their missions are celebrated in the October issue of the magazine.


“It’s easy to think that the ocean is so vast it can take care of itself,” Johnson says. “But that’s really not the case anymore, as I’ve come to learn when I travel and talk with these experts. When the expeditions are completed, or when we speak away from the cameras, our conversation continues—and it’s a conversation I hope you’ll join.”


To do so, plan to attend a special screening at The Picture House in Pelham, NY, on October 12. The film documents one Ocean Hero’s eye-opening and alarming journey to measure the impact of plastic waste in our oceans. Prior to the film, you’ll also preview the works and words of every Ocean Hero who made the magazine’s list, plus be introduced to a new youth group (PEP, or Pelham Eliminates Plastics) that aims to tackle the plastic waste problem locally.


Co-sponsor Ecopel is giving each audience member a customized, reusable canvas bag with a complimentary copy of the October issue of Coastal Living. Additional eco-friendly co-sponsors and gifts to be announced. Special guests also in the works.


ABOUT THE SMOG OF THE SEA


The Smog of the Sea chronicles a one-week journey through the remote waters of the Sargasso Sea. Marine scientist Marcus Eriksen invited onboard an unusual crew to help him study the sea: renowned surfers Keith and Dan Malloy, musician Jack Johnson, spear fisherwoman Kimi Werner, and bodysurfer Mark Cunningham, who became citizen scientists on a mission to assess the fate of plastic waste in the world’s oceans.


After years of hearing about the famous “garbage patches” in the ocean’s gyres, the crew is stunned to learn the patches are a myth: the waters stretching to the horizon are clear blue, with no islands of trash in sight. But as the crew sieves the water and sorts through its haul, a more disturbing reality sets in: a fog of microplastics permeates the world’s oceans—trillions of nearly invisible plastic shards making their way up the marine food chain and right back to us. You can clean up a garbage patch, but how do you stop a fog?


Using nostalgic super-8 footage, sparkling underwater cinematography, an original score by Jack Johnson and his shipmate Simon Beins, and live action footage of the crew’s research, The Smog of the Sea provides a new perspective on the once pristine oceans, and makes an artful call to action for rethinking the scourge of single-use plastics.


Directed by Peabody Award-winning and Emmy-nominated filmmaker Ian Cheney (King Corn, The City Dark, The Search for General Tso).