A breakthrough called CRISPR has given us unprecedented control over the basic building blocks of life. It opens the door to curing diseases, reshaping the biosphere, and designing our own children.

Human Nature is a provocative exploration of CRISPR’s far-reaching implications, through the eyes of the scientists who discovered it, the families it’s affecting, and the bioengineers who are testing its limits. How will this new power change our relationship with nature? What will it mean for human evolution? To begin to answer these questions we must look back billions of years and peer into an uncertain future.

Presented in Collaboration with ro*co Films

DATE:   Saturday, September 28th, 2019

TIME:   7:00 PM Reception / 8:00 PM Film

TICKETS: $25.00 includes Film + Reception

In the summer of 1967, thousands of young people from across the country flocked to San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district to join in the hippie experience, only to discover that what they had come for was already disappearing. By 1968 the celebration of free love, music and an alternative lifestyle had descended into a maelstrom of drug abuse, broken dreams and occasional violence.

Through interviews with a broad range of individuals, including actor Peter Coyote and politician Willie Brown, who lived through the summer of love, as well as police officers walking the beat, teenage runaways who left home without looking back, non-hippie residents who resented the invasion of their community and scholars who still have difficulty interpreting the phenomenon — Summer of Love offers a complex portrait of the notorious event that many consider the peak of the 1960s counter-culture.

Presented in Collaboration with Commonweal

DATE:   Sunday, September 29th, 2019

TIME:   2:00 PM Reception / 3:00 PM Film

RECEPTION TICKETS:   $25.00 includes Film + Reception with Special Guests The legendary “Dr. Dave” Smith and Steve Heilig

RSVP REQUIRED FOR COMPLIMENTARY FILM TICKETS

(Does not Include Reception / Doors Open at 2:45 PM) – RSVP HERE

In the Kenyan bush, a small-time ivory dealer fights to stay on top while forces mobilize to destroy his trade. When he turns to his younger cousin, a conflicted wildlife ranger who hasn’t been paid in months, they both see a possible lifeline. The plummeting elephant population in Africa has captured the attention of the world, and as the government cracks down, both poachers and rangers face their own existential crises—what is the value of elephant life relative to human life? And can we understand these hunters who will risk death, arrest, and the moral outrage of the world to provide for their families?

Director Jon Kasbe followed the subjects of WHEN LAMBS BECOME LIONS over a three-year period, gaining an extraordinary level of access and trust on both sides of the ideological and ethical spectrum as he became part of their everyday lives. The result is a rare and visually arresting look through the perspectives and motives of the people at the epicenter of the conservation divide.

When Lambs Become Lions is a benefit for Operation Diana

DATE:   Sunday, September 29th, 2019

TIME:   6:00 PM Reception / 7:00 PM Film

TICKETS:   $35.00 includes Film + Reception