Progressive Cinema continues at 7.30pm on Wednesday, July 20, at the Armidale Club with a screening of the highly acclaimed documentary The Economics of Happiness, showing how millions of people around the planet are already engaged in building a better world through re-creating more democratic, human-scale, ecological and local economies.
The film features a chorus of well-known voices from six continents calling for systemic economic change, including prominent authors and activists such as Vandana Shiva, Bill McKibben, Michael Shuman, Zac Goldsmith and Clive Hamilton. Their message is that the best defence against climate change and peak oil is to bring the economy home and that, in so doing, we can restore our own sense of well-being.
The film is both hard-hitting and inspiring, connecting the dots between ever-expanding corporate power, climate chaos and economic meltdown and personal alienation and mental stress. It tells the story of a grassroots movement for localisation that, all around the world, is growing out through the cracks of a faltering global economy to forge a very different future. It shows communities coming together to re-build on a more human scale, creating the ecological, local economies that are the foundation of ‘an economics of happiness’.
Progressive Cinema is usually held on the second Wednesday of the month, but in July it will be the third Wednesday to avoid the school holidays.
The Economics of Happiness screens at 7.30pm on Wednesday, July 20, at The Armidale Club, 91 Beardy Street. All welcome, entry $5 concession, $10 regular or $15 solidarity. Turntables Restaurant will be open from 6pm.
