Event
DocuScience: Groenkijkers
As a nature enthusiast, you know better than anyone else how beautiful and important nature is, but you also see how vulnerable it is and that it is deteriorating fast. At the same time, part of the population is becoming increasingly distant from nature.
In the documentary ‘Groenkijkers’, we follow a number of conservationists who contribute in different ways to protect local nature. Together, all these initiatives by people who turn their love for nature and concern for its state into action, offer a hopeful perspective.
'Love for nature starts with looking closely. You cherish what you love,' says one of the main characters in the documentary. Does this hold the key to re-engaging more people with nature and restoring the relationship between humans and nature?
About Groenkijkers
'In Groenkijkers, director Sanne Rovers brings a visual ode to conservationists like her father, each trying in their own way to preserve and improve their piece of nature. We are part of their small discoveries and successes. But we also experience how they struggle with the sometimes desperate feeling of whether it all still makes sense. Groenkijkers is a poetic and urgent mosaic film about love for nature, commitment to a place, sadness for what is disappearing and hope for what can change.' (Docmakers)
‘Love for nature starts with looking closely,’ replies director Sanne Rovers' father when asked what she can do about the powerlessness she feels about the decline in biodiversity, climate change and nitrogen crisis. ‘You cherish what you love.’
A similar thought inspired lecturer Casper Quist (Biosystematics) to organise a ‘Biodiversity Challenge’ together with the Wageningen Biodiversity Initiative (WBI). During this annual event, experts and non-experts, together map biodiversity. Taking a good look at nature together inspires wonder and leads to a connection with nature and with each other. Casper Quist and Mieke de Wit (programme manager WBI) show how this simple format releases positive energy around biodiversity at European universities and in the municipality of Wageningen, and invite you to think along with them. What would you like to see or do to bring people closer to nature in their immediate environment?
Good to know:
Good to know, the documentary is Dutch spoken and English subtitled.
Details
The documentary will be shown in Omnia and admission is free of charge. The program will begin at 17:30, with the room opening at 17:00. After the program, you are welcome to talk while enjoying the DocuDinner.
Dinner in restaurant Novum afterwards?
Exclusively for DocuScience, restaurant Novum, in Omnia, offers a DocuDinner. For €18,50, you will be served a delicious main course and a drink. The DocuDinner starts after DocuScience has ended at 19:00. Reservation is required and can be done through the Forms. Already filled in the Forms, without making a reservation yet? Make a reservation via mail. Please mention DocuScience in the e-mail.
About DocuScience
DocuScience is a program in Omnia, where employees of Wageningen Campus share insights into the inspiring work happening at Campus. We will explore new perspectives through provocative documentaries that encourage conversation. Everyone working at Wageningen Campus is welcome, so bring your colleagues!
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