Main Campus - Paley Library
Room: lecture hall

A screening of The City Dark, filmmaker Ian Cheney’s exploration of how we, as dwellers of contemporary cities, relate to the night sky. After moving to light-polluted New York City from rural Maine, he asks: “Do we need the dark?” Exploring the threat of killer asteroids in Hawai’i, tracking hatching turtles along the Florida coast and rescuing injured birds on Chicago streets, Cheney unravels the myriad implications of a globe glittering with lights. After the film, enjoy refreshments and a participate in a panel with Cheney and Temple scholars Barry Vacker of Film and Media Arts and Jonathan deJonge of Community and Regional Planning.