The Confluence: A Night of Film and Celebration
Join The Watersmith Guild for a short film premiere, craft beer and small bites!
December 3 @ 5:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Join The Watersmith Guild at The Lindsay for a joyous celebration of filmmaking, paddling and community-building!
The Pittsburgh-based nonprofit will premiere the short documentary First Waves Beaver County on Thursday, Dec. 3, at 7:30 p.m. The screening will be preceded by food, drinks and more in our Community Room starting at 5:30 p.m. Tickets are on sale for $30 each via The Watersmith Guild.
The Confluence: A Night of Film and Celebration will include:
• 5:30 p.m.: A pre-show mixer in The Lindsay’s Community Room featuring live music, games, raffles and auctions alongside craft beer provided by locally based Stick City Brewing Company, and small bites from the North Shore Cafe.
• 7 p.m.: Welcome Remarks in our Large Screening Room.
• 7:30 p.m.: The first big-screen showing of a new film about the First Waves Beaver County program, directed by The Lindsay’s own Filmmaker in Residence Rishi Sethi and produced by malhari.media, Sethi’s multimedia production company.
• 8 p.m.: Return to the Community Room for more casual conversation.
The Watersmith Guild aims to empower communities with skills and opportunities to improve their lives and create lasting impacts on local watersheds. First Waves is a project that The Watersmith Guild started in 2014 that focuses on standup paddle-boarding, river surfing and the art of filmmaking as catalysts to inspire conservation of local waterways and mentorship for at-risk youth.
The First Waves Beaver County film documents the expansion of The Watersmith Guild’s youth environmental education program into the Beaver and Ohio River valleys in the aftermath of the ethylene cracker plant’s penalties for pollution. In the film, you’ll see how these local youths heal their relationships with the natural world by paddle-boarding, leading environmental conservation efforts and creating films to spread awareness throughout their communities.
