Film: Waterlife

• Event Date: Saturday, July 9, 2016
• Time: 2:00 pm (CDT)
• Location: Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL
• Cost: Free Admission

• Film

In anticipation of the Museum of the Grand Prairie's upcoming traveling Smithsonian exhibit, “Water/Ways”, the Museum of the Grand Prairie and the Spurlock Museum have teamed up for a special documentary screening of Waterlife. This film tells the epic story of the Great Lakes by following the cascade of its water from northern Lake Superior to the Atlantic Ocean, through the lives of some of the 35 million people who rely on the lake for survival. Providing earth with 20% of its surface fresh water and its third largest industrial economy, the Great Lakes are a unique and precious resource under assault by toxins, sewage, invasive species, evaporating water and profound apathy. Join us for an eye-opening and sweeping cinematic journey through one of the planet's greatest preserves of extraordinary wilderness beauty and a bounty of unique species.

2009, 109 minutes, unrated

This event is co-sponsored by the Museum of the Grand Prairie and the Spurlock Museum.