The Botany of Desire: A Special Community Film Series
You're invited! Please join us for the four-part Madison premiere of The Botany of Desire, every Tuesday in October.
The apple, the tulip, the marijuana plant and the potato are the stars of the film adaptation of journalist Michael Pollan's best-selling book, The Botany of Desire.
The documentary begins in the author's own home garden, before journeying to the apple orchards of Kazakhstan, the tulip markets of Amsterdam, a medical marijuana hot house, and the potato fields of South America.
These four famous plants have evolved to take advantage of the human desires for sweetness, beauty, intoxication and control. The interconnected relationship between plants and humans is what Pollan terms "the botany of desire."
The Botany of Desire
The Botany of Desire
Wisconsin Public Television and Madison Public Libraries invite you to join us for the FREE Madison premiere of The Botany of Desire. Over the course of four Tuesdays in October, we'll explore each of Pollan's desires:
Apple (sweetness) | 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 6
Tulip (beauty) | 7p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 13
Marijuana (intoxication) | 7p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 20
Potato (control) | 7p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 27
Each screening will be followed by an audience discussion.
Event Details
All events will be held at:
Madison Central Library,
201 W. Mifflin St., Madison
Contact library at 608-266-6300
Directions to library
For more information e-mail Lynne Blinkenberg at WPT or call her at 608-265-6331.
We hope to see you there!
