Tickets available through Zinema:
- Adult $9.75
- Child $5.50
- Senior $6.50
- Student $7.00
* Modest service fees may apply.

Join Minnesota Sea Grant and documentary film producer Chad Freidrichs at the regional premiere of a new documentary chronicling one of the boldest, most-audacious - and largely untold - stories in Minnesota history. Stick around after the 96 minute screening for a panel discussion led by Sea Grant's Sharon Moen and author of "With Tomorrow in Mind" a book chronicling the life of Athelstan Spilhaus, designer of The Experimental City and initiator of Sea Grant.
Synopsis

THE EXPERIMENTAL CITY is a documentary about the Minnesota Experimental City project, a futuristic attempt to solve urban problems by creating a full-size city from scratch in the isolated woods of northern Minnesota.

At the heart of the story is renowned scientist, inventor and comic-strip author Athelstan Spilhaus, who - alarmed by the growing environmental crisis in 1960's America, gathered a team of committed experts to plan a domed city for 250,000 people whose futuristic technology and innovative design would eradicate the pollution and waste of the modern city, and lead the way toward 21st-Century urban life.

But before the city of the future broke ground on a virgin site in isolated northern Minnesota, rural citizens and mistrustful environmentalists rose up in protest, doubtful of its pollution-free promises.

Panelists include:
- Chad Freidrichs, making The Experimental City documentary.
- A Duluth City planner, Duluth's comprehensive plan and perspectives on future cities.
- Tom Beery, Minnesota Sea Grant resilience specialist, the need for experimental cities.

Free and open to the public.

Euan Reavie, senior research associate and water initiative associate director with the University of Minnesota Duluth National Resources Research Institute, will present: "Tiny Fossils Shed Light on the Past and Future of Water Quality."

The Lake Superior National Estuarine Research Reserve and the Minnesota and Wisconsin Sea Grant programs have teamed up to offer this series of informal evening talks about the St. Louis River Estuary.

Check the River Talk website (http://seagrant.wisc.edu/…/HabitatsandEcosyst…/Details.aspx…) for details. If you miss a talk, visit Wisconsin Sea Grant's "Great Lakes Takes" blog (http://uwiscseagrant.tumblr.com/) for a summary.

Questions? Contact series organizer, Marie Zhuikov with Wisconsin Sea Grant: mzhuikov@aqua.wisc.edu or 715-399-4084.