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Flush: The Documentary Screening & Panel Conversation
Come out of the water closet and join in the conversation!
WHEN: Saturday June 18, 2022. Doors open at 1:40pm, screening 2:00-3:00pm followed by a panel until 3:50pm.
WHERE: Epsilon Spires, Social Engagement Room @ 190 Main Street, Brattleboro VT United States 05301.
TICKETS: On sale here. Tickets are $1 plus suggested donation of $12. Donate $21 or more and receive a free, signed copy of Shawn Shafner’s new book, Know Your Shit, and a Rich Earth Institute sticker.
MORE INFO: Flush: The Documentary is the surprising story of what happens after we “go,” and a growing movement to change the way we think about waste.
Director Karina Mangu-Ward has a hunch that the unprecedented damage from Superstorm Sandy in her Brooklyn neighborhood, the drought out West, and the future of our food supply have a lot to do with how we flush. So she gives herself a challenge: follow one flush from beginning to end. Flush: The Documentary is the story of everything that happens next, and the cultural, political, and corporate forces shaping the way we deal with bodily waste in America today.
Runs 54 minutes. More information and film clips here. Advance viewing available upon request.
The film will be followed by a panel conversation of three local experts in traditional and progressive water / wastewater services: Christina Adams (Resource Management Inc.), Janine-Burke Wells (North East Biosolids & Residuals Association), Jamina Shupack (Rich Earth Institute). Panelists will reflect on the current sanitary situation, discuss impending challenges around biosolids management (including pharmaceuticals and PFAS), and offer diverse perspectives on the path forwards to manage human waste – and reclaim it as a resource. The POOP Project’s Shawn Shafner will moderate.
