The Royal Botanical Garden (RJB) of the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) welcomes the autumn with the ‘Cinema in the Garden’ series organized jointly with the Spanish Association of Landscape Designers (AEP). Another new edition, the eighth, seeks to value conservation and respect for the natural and landscape environment and to highlight the humanistic and scientific work necessary for the maintenance of plant and fungal biodiversity.
Cinema, thanks to its universal visual language and the global reach it achieves, is a fundamental tool to generate knowledge, create awareness and promote an active attitude towards the objective of conserving and preserving our nature pursued by this project coordinated by Manuel Sánchez (AEP ), Cruz Calleja (AEP) and Jesús García-Rodrigo (RJB-CSIC).
“Film and botanical science merge and complement each other in pursuit of achieving the general objective of increasing knowledge and understanding of botanical science, so present in our lives and still unknown in some of its facets, and, as parallel objectives, putting into practice value biodiversity, make the RJB known as a Botanical Garden and as a CSIC research center, and attract new audiences to both science and cinema,” says Jesús García-Rodrigo, responsible for communication and scientific dissemination at the RJB-CSIC.
This VIII edition returns with the same spirit as the first year. “Eight editions of ‘Cinema in the Garden’ will seek to raise more questions than answers in times when rhythms seem to move at a thousand different speeds. We live at high speed, where technological advances, rush, deadlines and stress control our lives, especially in big cities. There are other times, linked to the earth, to work, to cycles, to the seasons. The climatic times, which until now set more or less understandable guidelines, and to which we had adapted our lives, are now being seen to be extreme or modified, turning meteorological rarities into habitual ones,” indicates Manuel Sánchez from the AEP.
“But there are realities that we, people of science, cannot but support. We seek, as is usual in this cycle, to warn of future challenges, show the present beauty, dream of new solutions, learn from our ancestors, induce natural beauty, and share among those who accompany us each session each year, that It is still worth dreaming of a better world,” he adds, also from the Spanish Association of Landscape Architects, Cruz Calleja.
“Cinema in the Garden” Series
Place: Royal Botanical Garden-CSIC
Dates and times: October 10, 17, 24 and 31 | Screenings: 7:00 p.m.
Access through Plaza de Murillo, 2 at 6:00 p.m. if you take the informative walk and through Claudio Moyano Street, 1 at 6:30 p.m. if you attend the presentation directly.
Price: free activity until capacity is reached
Public: activity aimed at adult audiences
