Climate Listening Project Events


2021 Events:

“Planet Prescription” Film in the Field

“Planet Prescription” is currently being distributed by Exposure Labs through the Film in the Field partnership with the Southeast Climate and Energy Network (SECN)


October 18, Global Woman Club, Stockholm

The Art of Listening discussion with Stockholm director Kicki Pallin and Dayna Reggero


March 24, University of West Florida

Strategic Communications for the Sciences film screening and discussion with Dayna Reggero


February, Cinema Verde Film Festival (virtual)

Winner “Stories Happen in Forests”


2020 Events:


October 20, “Planet Prescription” Film Premiere

“Planet Prescription” Film Premiere with special film screening followed by interactive Q&A with health professionals from the film and special guest host. Presented by Climate Listening Project with Narrative Healthcare at Lenoir Rhyne University and Mothers & Others for Clean Air. Premiere powered by Seed&Spark.

FREE RSVP: bit.ly/PlanetPrescription


November, Big Syn International Film Festival (virtual)

Official Selection “Stories Happen in Forests”


November, Southern Screen Film Festival (virtual)

Official Selection “Stories Happen in Forests”


November, Southern States Indie Fan Film Festival (virtual)

Winner “Stories Happen in Forests”


October 8, Children’s Environmental Health Day (virtual)

“Planet Prescription” Film Sneak Peak and Fireside Chat with Director Dayna Reggero and Veronica Butcher of Mothers & Others for Clean Air


October, Real to Reel International Film Festival (virtual)

Official Selection “Stories Happen in Forests”


September 25, PechaKucha at The Collider (virtual)

by Dayna Reggero on climate and health


July, Impact Docs Awards (virtual)

Winner “Stories Happen in Forests”


June, Fist Up Film Festival (virtual)

Official Selection “Stories Happen in Forests”


May, Cat Fly Indie Film Festival (virtual)

Official Selection “Stories Happen in Forests”


April, Southeast Regional Film Festival (virtual)

Semi-Finalist “Stories Happen in Forests”


April, Connect Beyond Film Festival (virtual)

Official Selection “Stories Happen in Forests”


March 3, Lenoir-Rhyne University (virtual)

“Sustainability Behavior, Education and Communication” class discussion with Climate Listening Project Director Dayna Reggero


October-February, Filming New Documentary

Climate and Health, Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina



 Booking: Connect



2019 Events:


October-December, Filming New Documentary

Climate and Health, Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina


October 18-19, Narrative Healthcare Symposium

Climate Listening Project partnership, Asheville, NC


September 25-29, Patagonia Tools for Grassroots Activists

?with Accelerating Appalachia – Lake Tahoe, California


September 24, Film Vault Presents

Earth ? People ? Words ? Manchester, UK


September 21, FEMME Filmmakers Festival?

Earth ? People ? Words ? online


July 29,?SOIL (Social Opportunities for Intentional Living)?Camp?

Climate Listening Project Screening and Discussion with Dayna Reggero


July 2, Lenoir Rhyne University

Bridging the Gap between Science and Society with Dayna Reggero


June 18-21,?US Climate Action Network

USCAN 30th Anniversary Minnesota


May 27, Accelerating Appalachia

Accelerating Appalachia Ohio


May 2, Accelerating Appalachia

Accelerating Appalachia North Carolina


April, PBS Premiere

“EcoSense for Living” – Climate Listening Project and Moms Clean Air Force, Pennsylvania


April 24, Small Actions: Big Changes Premiere

Listening Party for 90 ninth graders from the Franklin School of Innovation to premiere their Climate Listening Project podcasts


April 18, Sundance Institute

Sundance Film Festival institute on producing short films


April 16, Accelerating Appalachia

Accelerating Appalachia kickoff in Kentucky


April 14, Asheville Wordfest

New Climate Listening Project Film Preview by Dayna Reggero


April 11, United Nations Women’s International Forum

Earth Day 2019: Climate Solutions in NYC


April 5, Connect Beyond Festival

Dayna Reggero listening session with Josh Tickell after the audience test screening of his work-in-progress documentary KISS THE GROUND


April 3, Climate Listening Project Portraiture Premiere

Weaving science and storytelling with hand-drawn graphite portraits. Featuring artist/ biologist Shannon Bodeau. Hosted by Climate Listening Project director Dayna Reggero. Sponsored by UNCA McCullough Fellowship.


March 11, Franklin School of Innovation

Training 90 ninth graders on how to make their own Climate Listening Project podcasts with Dayna Reggero


February 5, University of West Florida

Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Science Communication film screening and discussion with Dayna Reggero in Pensacola, FL


January 30, Appalachian State University

Department of Sustainable Development, “Outreach Skills for Sustainability”?film screening and discussion with Dayna Reggero


January 22, Wood Thrush Connection Screening

Update on Wood Thrush Migration from studies in 5 states at the Historic Bethabara Park Visitor center in Winston Salem with Forsyth Audubon



?Booking: Connect



2018 Events:


December, Environmental Paper Network Photo Series Premiere

“Voices of Hope for Forests”


November – December, Southeast Tour

From National Parks to Mexico Beach – Climate Impacts in the Southeast


October 27, Belize Birding Festival

“The Wood Thrush Connection” Film Screening


October 27, Belize Birding Festival

“The Wood Thrush Connection” Film Screening


October 25, School Curriculum Launch

“The Wood Thrush Connection” School Curriculum is beginning at pilot elementary schools in North Carolina before being released nationally!


October 13, Green Built Alliance CiderFest

“Building Climate Hope at Home” Film Screening with Climate Listening Project Director Dayna Reggero


October, Virtual Reality Film Premiere

with Dogwood Alliance


September 30-October 3, Environmental Grantmakers Association Retreat

Outings by Dayna Reggero


September 13, Film Premiere

New Film Premiere “Building Climate Hope at Home” in collaboration with Green Built Alliance and in solidarity with Global Climate Action Summit and Women Director Appreciation Month


September 5-6, Environmental Paper Network Meeting

Global Forest Gathering Photography and Listening by Dayna Reggero


August 11, Micropolitan Film Festival

Official Selection: ?The Story We Want?


July 23, SOIL (Social Opportunities for Intentional Living) Camp

Climate Listening Project Screening and Discussion with Climate Listening Project Director Dayna Reggero


July 12, UNCA McCullough Fellowship

Interactive Listening Workshop with Dayna Reggero


July 11, 48 Hour Film Festival

“She Was Once Distant” Winner Best Film, (Dayna Reggero executive producer) team All Around Artsy


May 11, World Migratory Bird Day Festival

“Wood Thrush Connection” screening hosted by Balsam Mountain Trust


May 2, Museum of Natural Sciences

“Wood Thrush Connection” screening and discussion with Climate Listening Project Director Dayna Reggero and Audubon’s Kim Brand

Daily Planet Theatre Lunchtime Discovery Series


April 20-22, Connect Beyond the Page Festival

Music, Storytelling, Film, Social Justice,

Climate Listening Project interactive listening session with Dayna Reggero April 20


April 12-15, Wordfest

Earth, People, and Words: Science Soul and Art in Conversation

Climate Listening Project discussion with Dayna Reggero April 15

Learn more: avlWordFest.com


April 8, Cat Fly Indie Film Festival

Official Selection: “The Story We Want”


March 22-25, Los Angeles Women’s International Film Festival

Official Selection: “The Story We Want”


March 19-21, Climate Expo 2018

Discussion with Climate Listening Project Director Dayna Reggero

It’s all part of Climate Expo 2018, a conference on the business of climate, held at The Collider March 16-25 in the heart of downtown Climate City – Asheville, North Carolina.


March 11-13, SEJ Association of United Methodist Foundations Annual Meeting

Discussion with Climate Listening Project Director Dayna Reggero: What Does It Look Like to be An Agent of Change / How to Excel at Leadership During a Time of Transition and Re-Visioning


March 1, TEEM (Temple Emanuel Environmental Movement)

“Wood Thrush Connection” screening with Climate Listening Project Director Dayna Reggero and Audubon’s Kim Brand


January 30, Lenoir-Rhyne University

“Sustainability Behavior, Education and Communication” class discussion with Climate Listening Project Director Dayna Reggero


?Booking: Connect



2017 Events:


Dec. 13., Belize National Institute of Culture and History?

“Wood Thrush Connection Screening: San Ignacio/Santa Elena House of Culture Opening Ceremony

Dec. 12.,?Transylvania County Bird Club?

“Wood Thrush Connection” Screening at the?Connestee Falls Clubhouse, Brevard, NC

Nov. 14., Cape Fear Audubon Society?

“Wood Thrush Connection” Screening with Kim Brand of Audubon


November 9-12, Belize International Film Festival

Best Short Documentary Winner: Wood Thrush Connection Full-Length Documentary


September 30, Boone Film Festival

Best Environmental Film Finalist: Wood Thrush Connection Full-Length Documentary


September 15, Fairview Library

Wood Thrush Connection Screening with Audubon’s Kim Brand

July 25, 2017, The Collider

The Story We Want: Asheville?Premiere

July 15-16 tbd, 2017, Wild Goose Festival

Climate Listening Project + Faith discussion with Dayna Reggero & Scott Hardin Nieri

June 10, 2017, Green Festival New York

The Story We Want:?NY Premiere?with Dayna Reggero, Javits Center, NYC

June 2017, Faith in Action, National Release 4,000 Churches

Video in?Collaboration with Green Chalice

June 2017, National Audubon Society Convention, Atlantic Flyaway

Wood Thrush Connection Screening with Audubon’s Kim Brand

May 13, 2017, Green Festival Washington, D.C.

The Story We Want: DC Premiere with Dayna Reggero, DC

May 10, 2017, Wake Audubon Society Meeting

Wood Thrush Connection Screening,?Museum of Natural Sciences

May 3, 2017, Burlington Bird Club and Audubon North Carolina

Wood Thrush Connection Screening

May 2017, England, Sweden Cultivating Resilience Tour

Cultivating Resilience Series Screenings with Laura Lengnick at Oxford and Stockholm

April 29, 2017, People’s Climate?Rally

Speaker?Dayna Reggero

April 20, 2017 Creation Care Alliance

The Story We Want:?Episode 1: Persistence:?Screening

April 20, 2017 The Capital Group of the Sierra Club

The Story We Want:?Episode 1: Persistence:?Screening & Discussion with Dayna Reggero

February 16, 2017 Creation Care Alliance

Telling a Love Story in the Time of Fear: Workshop with Dayna Reggero


?Booking: Connect


??2016 Events:


National Tour

North Carolina, New York, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Texas, New Mexico, California, Florida

Sept.-Nov. 2016 with Moms Clean Air Force


International Tour

Belize, NC

Feb.-April 2016 with National Audubon Society, Forsyth Audubon, Audubon North Carolina, Belize Audubon, Audubon International Alliances Program


Wild & Scenic Film Festival

“Wood Thrush Connection” screening with?featured filmmaker director Dayna Reggero and climate scientist Deke Arndt

September 1, 2016, VIP event hosted by MountainTrue

MountainTrue Wild & Scenic Film Festival


Climate Listening Project Earth Day, The Collider (Asheville, NC)

Woods and Wilds: Storytelling & Music Festival, Dogwood Alliance’s 20th Anniversary, Welcome Toast by?Climate Listening Project director Dayna Reggero (NC)

Belize Premiere of “Wood Thrush Connection” Documentary, Belize City, Belize with Belize Audubon Society (Belize)

Premiere of “Wood Thrush Connection” Documentary, Audubon Society Banquet, Winston-Salem (NC)

“Wood Thrush Connection” Documentary Screening, Winston-Salem, with North Carolina Audubon and Forsyth Audubon Society (NC)

“Wood Thrush Connection” Documentary Screening,?Frequent Flying with the Wood Thrush, with Elisha Mitchell Audubon Society (NC)

“Wood Thrush Connection” Documentary Screening,?Highland Brewing Company, with Elisha Mitchell Audubon Society (NC)

Butterflies Effect Video Premiere, Orlando, NYE BELIEVE (National Youth Event) (FL)

Pollinators and Community Video Premiere, National Pollinator Week and Global #RenHotels #DayofDiscovery

U.S. National Weather Service (NWS) training material (KS)

Royal Roads University, Guest Lecture (British Columbia)

St. Andrew’s University, Class Discussions, Local Farm Dinner?and Screening (NC)


2015 Events:


COP21, Regeneration International Event, Cool the Planet, Feed the World (Paris)

National Cultivating Resilience Tour (GA, NC, SC, MT)

Climate Interactive, Video Partnership (Asheville, Paris)

Wake Forest University, Speaking of Climate Change: Cultivating Resilience (NC)

University of Montana, Guest Lecture and Public Presentation (MT)

Montana State University, Screening and Discussion (MT)

Warren Wilson College, Class Discussion (NC)

AERO Conference, Resilience Presentation (MT)

Oberlin College, Public Lecture, Oberlin Food Justice (OH)

Unity College, Public Presentation (ME)

Society of Environmental Journalists Annual Meeting, Screening and Discussion (OK)

University of Maine, College of Natural Sciences, Forestry and Agriculture, Invited Seminar (MN)

Ecofarm Annual Meeting, Resilient Agriculture for a Changing Climate Workshop (CA)

Lenoir-Rhyne University, Screening and Discussion (NC)

University of North Carolina, Screening and Discussion (NC)

Warren Wilson College, Accelerating Appalachia, Presentation (NC)

Elon University, Guest Lecture (NC)

Interfaith Power and Light Event, Screening (NC)

Americorps Project Conserve, Screening and Workshop (NC)

The Collider, Video Partnership (NC)

Bioneers, Screening, Asheville (NC)

Sustainable Agriculture Conference, Carolina Farm Stewardship Association, Big Ideas Presentation (NC)


2014 Events:


Green Drinks, Trailer Premiere, Asheville (NC)

Years of Living Dangerously Asheville Premiere Filming (NC)


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“The Story We Want” five part documentary series


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New “Wood Thrush Connection” 25-minute Documentary Feature


Cultivating Resilience

Book a Screening:

Cultivating Resilience with Laura Lengnick and Dayna Reggero