In Transition: film night at Benderloch
published this on 12:51 pm, Saturday, 12th December, 2009Community News| Environment| Events| Film & film making | Comments (rss) | Respond | Ping |
| December 13, 2009 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 8:30 pm |
The medieval concept of flattery was that rather than being abject crawling it held up a positive distorting mirror to encourage better behaviour.
In Transition, the film showing at Benderloch tomorrow night, Sunday 13th December, at 7.00pm in the Victory Hall is doing just that. (And Eva Schonveld of Transition Scotland will be there to talk.)
The line on the poster advertising it says: ‘It tells the story of the generation that looked peak oil and climate change square in the face, and responded with creativity, compassion and genius’.
It is described as positive, uplifting and inspiring.
Resistance to the positive, uplifting and inspirational is a strange bur real phenomenon.
It led us to pay inadequate attention to the first Press Release for the film emailed us by Mairi Stones.
Then she emailed a second – and what she said – repeated verbatim below, gave is serious food for thought – whcih we;re now passing on alongisde the news of the showing. She said:
‘Yes it’s me again, reminding you about the film show on Sunday night in Benderloch.
‘Why am I saying it again?
‘Well, I would like everyone to see this film and to hear something positive about what is going on in the world; to hear about and be introduced to things that people are doing all around Scotland and beyond, to try and counter the constant barrage of negativity we are subjected to so much of the time.
‘Last night I was wondering if it’s all worth it, is there any point in trying to effect change, trying to find another way to live?
‘Whilst part of me wants to say no, give up, forget it, it’s too much, too late and so on, the other part knows that when I come together with others and take positive action I feel good and my belief in change re-surfaces.
‘I don’t know if what I can do, what we can do together, will make a difference globally.
‘However I certainly know that when I join together with others to do something, when I am connected and in community with others and most especially when we are doing something positive, helpful and for the greater good, I feel nourished and rewarded in ways that the consumer driven ideas of our current society can never offer me.
‘So if you fancy something different, want to find out what the heck I am on about, why not venture out to the Victory Hall in Benderloch on Sunday night to find out?’
Why not indeed?
Mairi Stones is in effect challenging is to live differently. Perhaps what she is asking for cold not be better described than by the words used to promote Magnetic North’s production of Walden, seen around Argyll earlier this Autumn, following the Edinburgh Festival.
Henry Thoreau’s account and the Magnetic North production based on it, describe the real life experiences of the author in an 2 year experiment living entirely by his own resources at Walden Pond in the woods near Concord, Massachusetts.
Unforgettably, what drove Thoreau to this is described as the desire ‘not to live cheaply or dearly but to live deliberately’.
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