Movies on the Grass

Movies on the Grass - Movies with a Consciousness

We have announced the new dates for MOG 2023:
Sundays - Sept. 10, 17, 24 and Oct. 1 at 7:30pm

*Movies will begin at 7:30pm but there will be speakers before the events at 7:00pm! Please also bring lawn chairs or blankets.

Movies on the Grass is a free event for K-State and the Manhattan community. Movies on the Grass highlights the annual K-State common read and brings light to social justice issues impacting the world today. Come learn and grow with us as we learn in community about featured writer George Takei, a famous Japanese-American actor. Explore his life's journey starting as a child in a concentration camp, then rising to fame as a Star Trek actor, and finally, learning how we can never forget our history as we continue to learn and grow together contributing to social justice in education learning about Asian conservation and regenerative agriculture with films hosted by the Sunset Zoo and SEA. As we walk through history, we can choose to learn from our past, evolve as a society, and contribute in new ways to find common ground.

The film on Sept 10 will be shown in Leadership Studies. Films on Sept 17, 24, and Oct 1 will be shown at Bosco Plaza. If there is a threat of weather, don't worry, we will move the movie indoors at Leadership Studies.

First year K-State students can receive credit by attending one of these films connected to the common read.

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Sept. 10 - "To Be Takei"

"George Takei doesn’t shy away from digging into his remarkable career and personal life in Jennifer Kroot’s delightful and incisive film To Be Takei. As a child forced into Japanese-American internment camps, the actor-turned-activist reveals the ways that racism affected him well into his early acting career, where he played stereotypical Asian stock characters in film and television shows. Even after landing the iconic role of Hikaru Sulu on Star Trek, Takei’s sharp eye, coupled with his wicked sense of humor, continued to challenge the status quo well into the twenty-first century."

(To Be Takei)

Sept. 17 - "Betrayed: Surviving an American Concentration Camp"

"Discover the story of a group of Japanese Americans and their incarceration by the U.S. government during World War II. Through the compelling voices of survivors of Minidoka, a concentration camp in the Idaho desert, Betrayed tells a universal story about unjust incarceration and the loss of civil rights."

(Betrayed)

Sept. 24: "Kiss the Ground"

"Kiss the Ground is a new documentary that explores the first viable, low-cost way to reverse climate change through soil. When cared for properly, soil (a.k.a. “dirt”) has the potential to sequester 100% of the carbon dioxide that humans have emitted into the atmosphere. There’s only one catch: our modern, industrialized, monocrop-based agriculture is killing the microbial life in the soil that does the carbon sequestering (“biosequestration”). But there’s hope. A disruptive group of scientists, farmers, ranchers, activists, and government types are banding together in a global movement toward a new type of agriculture called “regenerative farming” that increases soil life, stores water and sequesters CO2."

(Kiss the Ground)

 

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Oct. 1: "A Whale of a Tale"

"In 2010, the sleepy fishing town of Taiji in Japan suddenly found itself in the worldwide media spotlight. The Cove, a documentary denouncing the town’s longstanding whale and dolphin hunting traditions, won an Academy Award and almost overnight, Taiji became the go-to destination and battleground for activists from around the world.
A Whale of a Tale revisits this story, but discovers a different perspective - and a different question. Can a proud 400-year-old whaling tradition survive a tsunami of modern animal-rights activism and colliding forces of globalism vs. localism?"

 

(A Whale of a Tale)

 

 

 

 


 

Movies on the Grass Fall 2023
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