Friday, November 13, 6:00 pm - Crude

The Garden Club of the Back Bay members and their friends have been invited to The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, by Cultural Survival (www.cs.org) to a special movie showing.Â The invitation is below:

It has been called the Amazonian Chernobyl – an environmental and human rights disaster of epic proportions, making the Exxon Valdez spill look small and benign by comparison.

For decades, first Texaco and then Chevron Oil have desecrated Indigenous Peoples’ homelands in Ecuador, rendering the water, the soil, and the very air hostile to human life, killing wildlife, fouling watersheds, and wreaking devastation that will affect generations to come.

Greed for oil has caused this tragedy, and refusal to take responsibility has magnified the staggering impact that Chevron has had on Indigenous communities. Facing unprecedented rates of birth defects, rare cancers, and other serious health problems, losing their traditional lands and lifestyles, and being forced to fight an international mega-corporation for their very right to exist, this David-and-Goliath story is brilliantly captured in the award-winning documentary film Crude.

We invite you to join us for a very special showing of this film.

The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston will be showing Crude on Friday, November 13, 2009 at 6:00 p.m.Â The film will be introduced by Ted Macdonald, former Cultural Survival staffer who worked on this case and was an eyewitness to many of the events in the film.Â The film’s producer and 2nd-unit director, Michael Bonfiglio, will join us for an exclusive Q&A session immediately following the film – only for friends of Cultural Survival and your guests!

Please invite friends, family, and colleagues to join you – it will be an evening to remember!Â Groups welcome (religious, academic, social clubs, your sports team or book club…)Â Youth are welcome, however, some of the footage is very graphic and may be upsetting to younger children: parental discretion advised.Â The Q&A session only holds 100 people, so please reserve your seats today to be sure of being part of this very special event.

To purchase tickets for the film: online purchases via http://tickets.mfa.org or call the MFA box office at 617-369-3306. Tickets are $10 each; MFA members get a $2 per ticket discount. If you have a group of 15 or more you can obtain discounted group rates through the MFA box office.

To reserve your exclusive seats for the Q&A (no charge): email crude@cs.org NOTE: you must purchase your film tickets through the MFA box office before reserving seats with us for the Q&A.
For more information about the film, trailers, and info about showings in other cities: www.crudethemovie.com

If you have additional questions, please email us as crude@cs.org Please note: the 100 seats for the Q&A will go fast, so please be sure to book yours now!Â We look forward to seeing you there.