SHELLSHOCKED:Saving Oysters to Save Ourselves
New York Film Premiere
6:30 pm, 12 Fulton Street 20/$15 Museum members
The South Street Seaport Museum and The Harbor School present the New York premiere of SHELLSHOCKED: Saving Oysters to Save Ourselves. The film documents efforts to protect and restore oysters to New York Harbor. Once considered a cheap and plentiful food for everyday New Yorkers, the city’s oyster beds were closed in the 1927 — pollution had made oysters unsafe to eat. Efforts to repopulate the Harbor are underway: scientists, government officials, and environmentalists are fighting to bring oysters back and healthy ecosystem to the New York Harbor.
The screening will be followed by a reception and Q&A with director Emily Driscoll; Meredith Comi, Director of the NY/NJ Baykeepers Oyster Restoration Program; environmental activist and artist Mara Haseltine; and Peter Malinowski, Aquaculture Professor at the New York Harbor School.
Oysters served at the reception have been donated by Blue Island Oyster Company.
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