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Lafayette Environmental Awareness and Protection (LEAP) will screen two documentaries about global warming in conjunction with the ongoing “On Ice” exhibit.
LEAP will show An Inconvenient Truth 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 1 in the Limburg Theater, FarinonCollegeCenter. The film will be introduced by a local woman who recently attended one of Al Gore’s training camps.
Directed by Davis Guggenheim, An Inconvenient Truth outlines the science behind global warming while chronicling Gore’s lifelong commitment to raising environmental awareness. The film has been nominated for two Academy Awards, including Best Documentary and Best Original Song. It also has been named Best Documentary by Film Critics Associations in Chicago, Dallas-Ft. Worth, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C.
LEAP will continue its exploration of global warming with a screening of Baked Alaska noon, Thursday, Feb. 8 in Keefe Hall (Tree House floor). An informal discussion led by members of LEAP will follow.
Directed by Franny Armstrong, Baked Alaska presents the debate over oil drilling in Alaska. The Inupiat Eskimos want the jobs and money oil drilling would bring, but the Gwitchin Indians are concerned it will destroy the reindeer population.
“We chose to focus on global warming for the exhibit because we wanted to bring to light an environmental issue that was directly correlated with the theme of ice,” says Marquis Scholar and biology major Jessica Majewski ’07 (East Granby, Conn.), who is organizing LEAP’s “On Ice” activities. “Global warming is an issue often overlooked by students who don’t see the direct consequences of their actions on this phenomenon.”
LEAP also encourages members of the campus community to attend a glacier flow demonstration by David Sunderlin, assistant professor of geology and environmental geosciences, 5 p.m. Friday, Feb. 9 in the WilliamsCenter for the Arts lobby.
Also in conjunction with “On Ice,” LEAP sponsored the reception for George Divoky, research associate at the Institute of Arctic Biology at University of Alaska-Fairbanks, after his lecture “Watching the Arctic Melt Away” Jan. 29.
“On Ice” runs through Feb. 11 in the WilliamsCenter gallery, and features artistic, literary, and scientific works that use ice as their theme or inspiration.
Gallery hours are noon-5 p.m. Monday; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday; 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Wednesday; 2 p.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday; and noon-5 p.m. the first Sunday of each month for First Sunday Easton.