SCREENING | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5 | 5:30–8:30 PM | FREE
Thinking Like Water: Episode 1 “Willing to Try Things"
Episode 1 of Thinking Like Water, “Willing to Try Things", is screening at FUSION | 708 on Wednesday, March 5. There is an opening reception from 5:30–6:15 PM and the screening and Q&A will be from 6:15–8:30 PM.
The Thinking Like Water docuseries follows restoration pioneer Bill Zeedyk and his collaborators as they transform degraded watersheds into more resilient ecosystems. The first episode, “Willing to Try Things”, lays the foundation of Zeedyk’s pioneering contribution of induced meandering to the field of nature-based restoration. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Bill Zeedyk, filmmaker Renea Roberts, Cameron Weber, and Jan-Willem Jansens. The event is sponsored by the Land and Water Summit and Southern Sandoval County Arroyo Flood Control Authority.
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TEAM BIOS
BILL ZEEDYK
Bill Zeedyk had a 34-year-long first career as a wildlife biologist with the US Forest Service and began a new chapter (and second career) after his retirement in 1990. Since then, he’s been restoring watersheds in the desert southwest and beyond by using low-tech, low-cost and low-risk methods that allow the natural flow of water to bring the system back into balance.
JAN-WILLEM JANSENS
Jan-Willem Jansens is owner of Ecotone Landscaping Planning and specializes in landscape management planning, ecological restoration planning and design and land stewardship education. With over 30 years’ experience, he has developed expertise in forest and woodland ecology, watershed health, soil health, and collaborative stewardship work with landowners and communities.
CAMERON WEBER
Cameron Weber serves as Habitat Conservation Program Director for Rio Grande Return and primarily focuses on rewilding agricultural landscapes and ecological systems dependent on human participation. Cameron has over 15 years of cumulative experience in ecological farming, native plant materials, conservation planning, and habitat restoration project management. She serves on the boards of the Albuquerque Wildlife Federation and the Southwest Chapter of the Society for Ecological Restoration, and lives among a hundred different heritage apple trees with her family in Corrales.
RENEA ROBERTS
Renea Roberts is a documentary storyteller whose creative works are at an intersection of practical and philosophical meanings – often diving into cultural and physical landscapes, civic relations, beauty and individual empowerment. Her approach focuses on observing complex social issues, learning from a population’s inherent knowledge and experience in solving those challenges, and presenting to others in an emotive, easy-to-understand style.