'Legacies' book reading and film screening - Arts for the Future Festival - UNGA / Climate Action Week - 2025

​'Legacies'. Forty-five minute zoom event. The event will have 4 aspects: 1) introductions of the themes and the people in the room, 2) reading from the novel 'Louise', by recently deceased Afro Canadian American authour Richard Lewis Heath, 3) screening of the 20 minute film 'The Einsteins' Daughter - An Orphan Odyssey, by Odette Laramee and Jennifer Langley, 4) group discussion. Overview: 'Louise' is the main character in Heath's novel which explores a women's journey from inviting her students to reflect on human rights, to assisting in 'the human project' - this leads to her being invited to participate at the United Nations. The reading will be followed by the short film screening. Our focus will be: heart-based leadership and non-linear timelines' role in re-visioning just and inclusive pasts and futures.