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Beyond the Bridge

Beyond the Bridge is the story of two community leaders who turned a practical conversation about light bulbs and safety into an international public art festival in Mexico. Considered an act of Creative Placemaking, the Akumal Arts Festival united all sectors of the community to collaborate with artists and strengthen the local web of life.

Beyond the Bridge

14m 53s

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    Teilhard: Visionary Scientist

    1h 57m

    The life of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a French priest-paleontologist-visionary, suppressed by his Jesuit order for advocating evolution is revealed in a drama of personal awakening, a search for meaning, scientific adventure, unresolved conflict with authority, and human love.

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    Bicentennial Bonsai: Emissaries of Peace

    27m 16s

    In 1975, only 30 years after the United States and Japan have been at war, Japan gave 53 priceless bonsai trees to the United States in celebration of the U.S. Bicentennial. Some bonsai were several hundred years old. One had remarkably survived the bombing of Hiroshima. “Bicentennial Bonsai: Emissaries of Peace” chronicles this historic gift, with rare interviews and archival footage.

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    MSG: Mysterious Savory Grains

    12m 42s

    Chef Tim Ma shares his Chinese culture through his food and debunks the negative and unsavory stigma around MSG, better known as monsodium glutamate.

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