Tibetan Momo Dinner and Movie Night
featuring "The Hidden Life of Trees"
Friday, May 22: 5:30 Dinner, 6:10pm Movie
Humans plan in decades. Trees plan in centuries. It is only the comparative slowness of their growth that makes us think of trees as not moving. Yet, as you will see in this documentary film, based on the international best-seller by German forester Peter Wohlleben, trees communicate and respond in a manner that can only be called thinking.
Wohlleben wants us to appreciate “how social trees are,” with “nutrient exchanges” between trees to help other trees of the same species when they are in need. They are colonies, profoundly connected in the most literal and interdependent sense, “much like ant colonies” and, when left to themselves without human interference, they operate as superorganisms.
These moments are punctuated with visions of majesty and breathtaking beauty, including some time-lapse photography that gives us a glimpse of what it is like to live in tree-time. Perhaps in tribute to its subject matter, it is slow in spots. That may just be a way to give us more of a sense of tree-time, rather than human-time. (Excerpted from Roger Ebert’s review) (1 hour, 40 minutes, 2021)
Pre-Registration Required for the Momo Dinner which includes VEGGIE* momos, salad, other tasties, and shared community. Cost: $25, $30 or $35: DrepungGomangUSA.org or 502-614-5616. Your fee helps support the compassion mission of DGCEC.
*During the month of Saka Dawa - commemorating the birth, enlightenment, and sacred passing of Buddha Shakyamuni - we make a commitment to eat and serve no meat. All momos will be deliciously vegetarian/vegan.
The movie is free, but please register so we can expect you.
