SauGreen, Port Elgin Cinemas, Climate Reality Project Canada and Rabbit Dash are partnering on two events including screenings this Saturday and Sunday of Al Gore’s newest documentary: An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power.

On November 11 and 12, discussions will kick off at Rabbit Dash on Goderich Street in Port Elgin at 2 p.m., with a film screening at the Port Elgin Cinema at 4 p.m. (regular priced cinema tickets at the door) followed by further discussions at Rabbit Dash. Appetizers will be provided by SauGreen, and there will be special event t-shirt door prizes and other giveaways for participants.

Leading the question and answer discussion post-screening at the cinema as well as at Rabbit Dash will be local Climate Leaders trained by Al Gore, including Victoria and Corrina Serda, who trained in Nashville in 2007 and Montreal in 2008; and Brandi Farr of Saugeen First Nation who trained in Toronto in 2015. Victoria recently was on a mentor panel in Pittsburgh with Al Gore at the 36th Climate Leadership Corps training.

This event is launching the formation of a Community Climate Hub for Saugeen Shores, with support for local teams to engage their communities through public consultations, film screenings, eco-festivals, educational presentations, high profile conferences, webinars, hack-a-thons, and competitions such as architecture, entrepreneurship, urban planning. Hubs establish their own strategy, but align on the objective of advancing their municipalities towards carbon neutrality by midcentury by following the Federation of Canadian Municipality’s (FCM) Partners for Climate Protection milestone framework in a non-partisan manner. This local hub will be able to apply for funding toward a greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions inventory, local action plan, implementation and monitoring. For more information, see climatehub.ca.

For more information contact Victoria Serda, Treasurer of SauGreen and Climate Reality Project Mentor, at torpace@gmail.com.