This Saturday the 16th of May we are proud to be hosting a screening of the new film from Patagonia - Blue Heart.
This Saturday the 16th of May we are proud to be hosting a screening of the new film from Patagonia - Blue Heart.
The Balkan region—richly diverse in cultures, languages and history—is home to the last wild rivers on the European continent. The region truly is the Blue Heart of Europe. However, a hydropower gold rush is putting these rivers at risk: Hydropower is the only “renewable” energy source sending species to extinction, displacing people globally, and contributing to climate change.
This new documentary follows the Patagonia campaign and other, local stakeholders through the Balkans to document the crime committed on Europe’s last river jewels and on communities who live by them.
More than 3,000 hydropower dams and diversions are either proposed or in the process of being built on Europe’s last wild rivers in the Balkans and will cause irreversible damage to rivers, wildlife and local communities. Blue Heart documents the battle for the largest undammed river in Europe—Albania’s Vjosa—the effort to save the endangered Balkan lynx in Macedonia, and the women of Kruščica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, who are spearheading a months-long, 24/7 protest to protect their community’s only source of fresh water.
Tell International Banks to Stop Investing in the Destruction of Europe’s Last Wild Rivers. Sign the petition: https://blueheart.patagonia.com/take-action
The film will be screened in the Outside Café (above the shop) in Hathersage. Free entry, doors open at 7pm. And there's free beer too.