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Special Screening at Yelm Cinemas: Farmageddon – the Movie

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Yelm Cinemas at Prairie Park
Photo courtesy of Yelm Cinemas

At the request of JZ Knight, Yelm Cinemas manager Howard Christian says his theater is proud to present to Yelm & vicinity a Special Screening of
“Farmageddon – The Movie” in Yelm July 30th.

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC AT YELM CINEMAS SATURDAY, JULY 30 AT 9AM ONLY…


“Americans’ right to access fresh, healthy foods of their choice is under attack. Farmageddon tells the story of small, family farms that were providing safe, healthy foods to their communities and were forced to stop, sometimes through violent ac-tion, by agents of misguided government bureaucracies, and seeks to figure out why.

Filmmaker Kristin Canty’s quest to find healthy food for her four children turned into an educational journey to discover why access to these foods was being threatened. What she found were policies that favor agribusiness and factory farms over small family-operated farms selling fresh foods to their communities.”

CLICK HERE for tickets to what will certainly be a filled performance.

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Dr. Brian Greene brought his unique persective to Yelm

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Dr. Brain Greene
Photo courtesy Columbia University

On Monday, July 4, 2011, Dr. Brian Greene addressed Ramtha’s School of Enlightenment summer retreat in Yelm and live-streamed to students throughout the world with his talk titled The Hidden Reality.

About Dr. Greene:
“Physicist, string theorist and author of The Elegant Universe Brian Greene is one of the world’s leading theoretical physicists and a brilliant, entertaining communicator of cutting-edge scientific concepts. The Washington Post described him as “the single best explainer of abstruse concepts in the world today.”

In The Elegant Universe Greene recounted how the theories of general relativity and quantum mechanics transformed our understanding of the universe, and introduced us to string theory, a concept that might be the key to a unified theory of the universe. The book sold more than a million copies and became an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning NOVA special that Greene hosted.

His second book, The Fabric of the Cosmos, spent 6 months on The New York Times bestseller list and is currently being adapted into a 4-part NOVA miniseries slated for broadcast in 2011.

His third book, Icarus at the Edge of Time is a futuristic retelling of the Icarus myth, in which a boy travels not to the Sun by to a black hole. This visually stunning fable for children has recently been adapted for stage presentation with an orchestral score by Philip Glass, and premiered Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall.

Greene’s latest book, Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and The Deep Laws of the Cosmos (Jan. 2011), explores the strange and exciting possibility that our universe may be one of many populating a grand “multiverse”.

Greene has had many media appearances, from Nightline and Charlie Rose to The Late Show with David Letterman, and has made cameo appearances in the films Frequency, Maze, and The Last Mimzy.

A graduate of Harvard and a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, Greene is a professor in both Physics and Mathematics at Columbia University. The World Science Festival, co-founded by Greene, premiered in New York City in the spring of 2008 as an annual celebration of science that brings together great minds in science, business, government, and the arts.”

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