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Saturday, April 2, 2022 2:00PM

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Special Film Event: River of Gold

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The Department of Natural and Cultural Resources and the North Carolina Museum of Art require film and lecture program participants ages 13 and up to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination or a negative COVID-19 NAAT or PCR test result; test results must be within 72 hours of the event. Please plan to have one of these items in hand upon entry for Museum personnel.

Come celebrate the opening weekend of the exhibition Fault Lines: Art and the Environment at this thought-provoking documentary screening. Stay for the postscreening conversation with Susie Ganch and Kathleen Kennedy, directors of Radical Jewelry Makeover. Susie Ganch is also a featured artist in Fault Lines.

River of Gold (2016). Directed by Sarah DuPont, Reuben Aaronson, 63 min., NR

River of Gold (2016). Directed by Sarah DuPont, Reuben Aaronson, 63 min., NR

Narrated by Academy Award–winners Sissy Spacek and Herbie Hancock, this documentary by the Amazon Aid Foundation is the disturbing account of the destruction of Peru’s Amazon rain forest caused by illegally mined gold. Ron Haviv and Donovan Webster, two war journalists, led by Peruvian scientist and activist Enrique Ortiz, bear witness to the apocalyptic destruction of this critical region and its transformation into a wasteland. This documentary reaffirms the right of the rain forest to exist as a repository of priceless biodiversity and not as the toxic remains of man’s greed for gold.

Tickets go on sale March 9 at 10 am for this event. Please contact our Visitor Experience Department at help@ncartmuseum.org for more information.