Film Premiere and Conference: Journey of the Universe: An Epic Story of Cosmic, Earth, and Human Transformation

Saint Paul University is proud to host the Ottawa premiere of the film

Journey of the Universe: An Epic Story of Cosmic, Earth, and Human Transformation http://www.journeyoftheuniverse.org/

"Brian Swimme's magnificent insights provide a new mythology for our new millennium."

—David Suzuki

"This is one of the most remarkable films I have ever seen."

—Thomas E. Lovejoy, Ph.D., Scientist, founder of the PBS series Nature, and professor, George Mason University

Film Premiere: September 23, 2011

Conference: September 24, 2011 (full program)

Poster

The conference will discuss the implications of this incredible film.

Themes: Emergence, Creativity, Complexity, Earth’s Story, Human Stories

Speakers: Tony Clarke, Elizabeth May, John M.R. Stone, Ian Prattis, Noel Salmond, Heather Eaton, Anne Taylor and more!

Keynote Address:

Dr. Mary Evelyn Tucker, the world’s foremost scholar of religion and ecology. Thirty years of dedicated work engaging religions on ecological matters. A Senior Lecturer and Research Scholar at Yale. Her work: ten conferences and book publications on World Religions and Ecology at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard. Founder, with John Grim, of the Forum on Religion and Ecology at a culminating conference at the United Nations. Executive Producer and writer of the film.

For more information on Dr. Mary Evelyn Tucker: emergingearthcommunity.org/mary-evelyn-tucker

Come join academics, authors and activists for this extraordinary opportunity!

Thank you to our generous donors:

Congregation of Notre Dame Visitation Province Centre, Bedford, Halifax
Grey Sisters of the Immaculate Conception, Pembroke
Sisters of Providence of St. Vincent de Paul, Kingston
Sisters of Saint Joseph, Peterborough
Society of the Sacred Heart, Ottawa
Sisters of the Presentation of Newfoundland and Labrador