Premiere of a film inspired by Fred Bodsworth’s Last of the Curlews

We would like to make all members aware of the premiere of the film The Last Curlew, inspired by the celebrated book by longtime TFN member and past president, Fred Bodsworth. This film adaptation stars beloved Canadian actor RH Thompson, with music by the late R. Murray Schafer, and has been endorsed by a friend of the Bodsworth family, and birder, herself, novelist Margaret Atwood.

The premiere screening will be held on April 15th at 7 pm at the Fox theatre located at 2236 Queen Street East in Toronto, just a few blocks from the house where Fred Bodsworth wrote the book, and where he led countless walks along the beaches and through Glen Stewart Ravine.

Tickets can be purchased in advance at https://www.foxtheatre.ca/

Toronto Field Naturalists wishes to acknowledge this Land through which we walk. For thousands of years, the Land has been shared by the Wendat, the Haudenosaunee, and the Anishinaabe. Toronto is situated on the Land within the Toronto Purchase, Treaty 13, the traditional and treaty Lands of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. This territory is also part of the Dish with One Spoon Wampum, a covenant agreement between Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Wendat peoples and allied nations to peaceably share the land and all its resources. Today, the Land is home to peoples of numerous nations. We are all grateful to have the opportunity to continue to care for and share the beauty of this Land.