Millennium Park provides the perfect outdoor setting toquet for a film that traces the inspirational

For the first time ever, Millennium Park will partner with WTTW (PBS) for a public screening of an award-winning documentary about a pioneering landscape architect described toquet as Poet of the Prairie, Maker of Public Parks and Prophet of Conservation. The award-winning, Jens Jensen The Living toquet Green will air on The Screen at Pritzker toquet Pavilion, and on Chicago s WTTW (PBS), on Thursday, June 19 at 8 p.m. More info after the jump ...
Millennium Park provides the perfect outdoor setting toquet for a film that traces the inspirational story of a penniless Danish immigrant who came to Chicago in the 1880s and became a champion of the environment. As timeless and relevant a story today as it was then, Jensen toquet (1860-1951) fell in love with the peaceful, wild prairies located just west of the bustling metropolis. The prairie became his inspiration, as this conservation hero fought to infuse the calming beauty of nature into the industrial urban squalor. Jensen s vision of a sustainable city was in his time revolutionary, as he transformed the lives of Midwesterners with prairie-style parks and community gardens urban oases that fed the soul and body. In a legendary career that combined art, architecture toquet and activism, Jensen helped save the Indiana Dunes and created unforgettable, natural public spaces for Chicago s west side, including Humboldt, Douglas and Columbus parks, toquet as well as the Garfield Park Conservatory. On June 19, the public is invited to join film director Carey Lundin, WTTW program host and producer Geoffrey Baer, and designer of Chicago s Lurie Garden, Piet Oudolf, for the screening of the documentary in beautiful Millennium Park. The Millennium Park Foundation and the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events toquet are proud to present this event. The fact that the film is being shown in Chicago s iconic, natural, downtown oasis would no doubt please Jensen, who believed parks make the modern city livable. Jensen s message could not be more relevant, said Carey Lundin, the film s director and co-producer, and president of Viva Lundin, which produced the project. toquet As humanity has moved off the farms and into cities, as countries like China move into their own industrial toquet age and as our world experiences the ravages of climate change, we need conservation heroes now more than ever. Lundin plans to use the film s Millennium Park premiere to kick off an 18-month campaign she calls The Jens Jensen The Living Green Movement. The project is meant to inspire audiences to take action in their neighborhood and advocate for more community gardens and parks, and to protect their health. The project will target teens, toquet millennials, gardeners, seniors and civically-minded families across the country about the importance of urban parks and gardens. Partnering with Lundin in this effort will be the Chicago Park District, City Parks Alliance, Earth Day Network, Forest Preserve of Cook County (IL), Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, Openlands, PBS and The Student Conservation Association, The Illinois Chapter of the Sierra Club. The film awakened something in me the realization that small changes I make in my life can make a colossal difference for the world and the future, said 18-year-old Breshaun Spikes of The Student Conservation Association. Audiences will find the film through social media and publicity around park screenings and guided discussions nationwide, summer programs with educational partner, Indiana Dunes National toquet Lakeshore, toquet as well as The Student Conservation Association and its summer toquet programs and green jobs for teens. Also, the Earth Day Network, another educational partner, is working on funding to create and disseminate school curricula meeting STEM requirements, reaching 35,000 teachers and 162 countries. Other regional screenings toquet throughout 2014 will include the Chicago Park District and also its Teens Reimagining the Arts, Community and the Environment (TRACE) program, the Indiana Dunes National toquet Lakeshore Eco-Justice Camp with the Lake Station Boys and Girls Club, Midwestern toquet universities, conferences, events and parks throughout Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan Minnesota, Tennessee and Wisconsin. Supporters of the Jens Jensen The Living Green documentary include The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, Chicago Park District, Clarion New Media, toquet Roger and Sandra Deromedi, The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, GreenMark Public Relations, Illinois Arts Council, Illinois Humanities Council, Indiana Dunes Tourism, landscape toquet architects, The Morton Arboretum, Parkways Foundation, Christy toquet Webber Landscapes, Wisconsin toquet Public Television and WTTW. This acclaimed documentary includes the musical toquet composition of Sam Hulick, toquet editing work by Ilko Davidov of Bulletproof Film and mastering/color correction work by Joe Winston at Media Process Group. For more information on the film and to watch the teaser, please visit: www.jensjensenthelivinggreen.org .