Escarpment Blues, directed by Andy Keen, chronicles Sarah Harmer’s fight to stop the destruction of the Niagara Escarpment and preserve Ontario’s Greenbelt. Harmer’s 2005 I Love the Escarpment Tour was captured on film as she and her band played in community halls and theatres, hiking and kayaking along the Escarpment’s Bruce Trail. Part concert film and part documentary about the threat to the Niagara Escarpment, Escarpment Blues is a loving tribute to one of Ontario’s most beautiful rural areas and the people who live there.
Sarah Harmer and Andy Keen will be screening their film in some of the towns they visited on the tour. Join them for a lively public discussion about how communities can demand responsible resource development and protect the natural wealth we all share. (See dates below)
“I hope this film alerts people in Southern Ontario to the magnificence that lies so close to home. There's nothing like parking the car and getting out on the trail.
I hope it also shines a light on the not always sexy but satisfying results of working locally. All the big environmental issues are embodied in our collective backyards.”--Sarah Harmer
The film Escarpment Blues is in stores October 31. Proceeds go to Protecting Escarpment Rural Land (PERL), a local group Sarah co-founded to oppose a new quarry proposal near her home on Mount Nemo in North Burlington. The proposed open-pit mine threatens to destroy the water table, eliminate a Provincially Significant Wetland Complex, important Threatened Species habitats, and remove unique escarpment land, designated a World Biosphere Reserve by the United Nations.
MONDAY OCTOBER 30 *DUNNING AUDITORIUM, KINGSTON
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 1 * SHOWPLACE, PETERBOROUGH
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 2 * ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM, TORONTO
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 3 * STUDIO THEATRE, HAMILTON
SATURDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 4 * JOHN ELLIOT THEATRE, GEORGETOWN
SATURDAY NIGHT, NOVEMBER 4 * GAYETY THEATRE, COLLINGWOOD
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