'AY MARIPOSA' FILM DESCRIPTION: “Ay Mariposa” tells a story of three characters in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas whose lives are upended by plans to build a US-Mexico border wall. Meanwhile the butterfly, la mariposa, fights its own daily battle for survival in a landscape where more than 95 percent of its habitat is long gone and much of what remains lies directly in the path of the wall.

Krista Schyler/2019/57 min/Wildlife, Conservation, Environmental & Social Justice

'BIOMIMICRY' FILM DESCRIPTION: Janine Benyus describes how biomimicry has been applied to create design solutions that capture carbon, conserve water, eschew toxic chemicals in favor of structural approaches, and rethink materials, among others. “When you’re asking how to be better adapted on this planet, there are no better models than the species that have preceded us for billions of years,” said Benyus in the film. “Biomimicry” is brought to you by Leonardo DiCaprio and his team.

Leila Conners/2015/22 min/Environmental Advocacy, Wildlife, Health & the Environment

Key Program Participant:

• Discussion Facilitator: Susan Lucci, Founder, 2Big4Words and Co-Founder, Global Purpose Guides & FeelReal

Resource Panelists:

• Marianna Trevino-Wright, National Butterfly Center (Film Subject/Panelist, Action Partner)

• Amy Phillips, Biomimicry Chicago and The Conservation Foundation (Panelist, Action Partner)

• Additional Action Partners: Wild Ones West Cook (Stephanie Walquist, Pam Todd) and Triton Sustainability/Greening the Campus (Nancy Rizo)

Co-sponsored by Triton College, River Grove . Presented in partnership with Wild Ones West Cook.

This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.