A Simple Question: The Story of STRAW - Featuring The Bay Institute's STRAW
Program - Premieres in San Francisco on October 21
NOVATO, Calif., Oct. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- The Bay Institute today announced the
world premiere of A Simple Question: The Story of STRAW at the San Francisco
Public Library. Produced by Kevin White and David Donnenfield of Filmmakers
Collaborative SF, A Simple Question is an inspiring documentary about students
and teachers restoring a watershed, and a program that has galvanized the
local community and led to significant educational innovation.
The premiere is free to the public at 6 pm on October 21 at the Koret
Auditorium, Main Library, Lower Level, 100 Larkin St., San Francisco. The
filmmakers and STRAW leaders will hold a Q&A session following the screening.
A trailer of the film is available at www.asimplequestion.org.
STRAW grew out of the Shrimp Project, begun in 1992 by a fourth-grade class at
Brookside School in Marin County. The class wanted to do something about the
problem of endangered species, and chose to focus on California freshwater
shrimp. The class pioneered methods for students to conduct professional
restoration of riparian corridors that provide habitat for the shrimp and
other threatened and endangered species, and word spread about the Shrimp
Project's accomplishments.
Seventeen years later, The Bay Institute's STRAW program sustains a network of
teachers, students and restoration specialists that plans and implements
watershed studies and restoration projects in Marin, Sonoma, Napa and Solano
counties.
"Since 1998, over 25,000 students have participated in 275 restorations on
rural and urban creeks, installing over 24,000 native plants resulting in the
restoration of 100,000 linear feet of creek banks," stated The Bay Institute's
Watershed Education Director Laurette Rogers, who was the teacher who
initiated The Shrimp Project at Brookside. "While it's grown over the years,
STRAW is still a community-based grassroots program, and our next step is
teaching other communities how to replicate our success."
About The Bay Institute
The Bay Institute is the leader in protecting, restoring and inspiring
conservation of the San Francisco Bay and its watershed -- from the Sierra to
the sea. For 28 years, it has been developing and leading model scientific
research, education and advocacy programs to preserve California's most
important natural resource. Additional information is available at
www.bay.org.
SOURCE The Bay Institute
Michele Bernhardt of The Bay Institute, +1-415-623-5343, michele@bay.org
