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THE EXPERIENCE

Celebrating the wonders of nature this April, we are pleased to present a documentary by Portland-based filmmaker Barbara Bernstein about the story of the great Willamette River, which flows through our city. Following the film there will be a short panel discussion with Barbara and subjects from the film. 

ON SCREEN: Once a Braided River

2023. Directed by Barbara Bernstein. Runtime: 54 minutes. 

Once a Braided River, a new documentary by Barbara Bernstein, tells the story of how the North Reach of the Willamette River was transformed from a braided river, rich in biodiversity and home to many bands of Indigenous people, into an industrial sacrifice zone with a ten-mile-long superfund site running from downtown Portland to the river’s confluence with the Columbia River.

ON STAGE:

Barbara Bernstein (Director/Producer)  Producer Barbara Bernstein is a musician, composer, performance artist, radio producer, and filmmaker. Besides her recent documentaries Chasing Chimeras and Once a Braided River, her award-winning radio documentaries, internationally broadcast on public radio stations, include two pieces about the struggle to stop the Pacific Northwest from becoming a fossil fuel export hub: Holding the Thin Green Line and Sacrifice Zones; Sculpted By Fire (the role of fire in shaping western forests and sustaining healthy forest ecosystems); Salmonlands (the cultural significance of diminishing salmon runs in the Northwest), and Rivers That Were (the industrialization of the Colorado and Columbia Rivers). She is currently working on a new documentary about liberating the culverted creeks that flow under Portland’s Industrial sacrifice zone along the Willamette River.