Burlington City Arts, in affiliation with VTIFF, presents:
STRANGE & FAMILIAR: ARCHITECTURE ON FOGO ISLAND (WILD ARCHITECTURE)
2014
Directed by Katherine Knight and Marcia Connolly
In a rapidly urbanized world what does the future hold for traditional rural societies? As Fogo Island, a small community off the coast of Newfoundland struggles to sustain its unique way of life in the face of a collapse of its cod fishing industry, architect Todd Saunders and social entrepreneur Zita Cobbs’ vision for positive change result in the envisioning, designing and building of strikingly original architecture that will become a catalyst for social change. Experience this staggeringly beautiful place and how the community and local workers together with Saunders and Cobb, come together and play a role in this creative process during a time of optimism and uncertain hope. Change is coming to Fogo Island.
The Architecture + Design Film Series is sponsored by: TruexCullins, Vermont Eco-Floors, Riven Peregrine Design/Build, AIAVT, Emerging Professionals Network-AIAVT, American Flatbread Burlington Hearth, Wagner Hodgson Landscape Architecture, Redstone, Radio Bean/Duino Duende, Roland Batten Fund, John Bossange, Mark and Marilyn Neagley, William Cats-Baril and Isabelle Desjardins, Jared Gange & Virginia Loughren, Anonymous Donors
BCA Center video projector and screen generously donated by the John M. Bissell Foundation, Inc.