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River sos

Mar 24

2026

Penn Theatre Plymouth, MI

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with

Myra M. Tetteh, Ph.D.

Board President, Friends of the Rouge; Public Health Policy Professional, Wayne County Department of Health, Human & Veterans Services

and

Elena Past

Professor of Italian, Wayne State University

and

Antonio Cosme

Land Stewardship Manager, Rouge Park; Coahuiltecan and Boricua Agroecologist, Artist, and Educator

River— Majestic Force and Fragile Lifeline

This film takes viewers on a journey across continents and centuries, revealing rivers as both majestic forces of nature and fragile lifelines shaped by human hands. In honor of World Water Day, the experts will lead a discussion and a post-screening Q&A session about our profound relationship between human civilization and Earth’s rivers.

This event is part of the National Evening of Science on Screen. Learn more.

Penn Theatre Plymouth, MI

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Film Synopsis

A stunning exploration of the timeless relationship between human civilization and Earth's rivers, in all their majesty and fragility.

    An exploration of the timeless relationship between human civilization and Earth's rivers. Spanning six continents, this visual and musical tour-de-force is by turns celebratory, cautionary, and ultimately hopeful that we are beginning to understand rivers in all their complexity and fragility. Narrated by Oscar Nominee Willem Dafoe. With music by the Australian Chamber Orchestra and Radiohead.

    Photo credit: Greenwich Entertainment

    About the Speaker

    Myra M. Tetteh, Ph.D., is the Friends of the Rouge Board President and a public health policy professional at Wayne County Department of Health, Human & Veterans Services.

    Elena Past is a Wayne State professor of Italian. Her research and teaching focus on contemporary Italian literature and cinema, ecomedia studies and the environmental humanities, posthumanism and animal studies, Italian crime fiction, and ecomafia.

    Antonio Cosme is the Land Stewardship Manager at Rouge Park and a Coahuiltecan and Boricua agroecologist, artist, educator, and organizer from Southwest, Detroit.