 Join the Healing Lahaina documentary film team for a screening and community fundraiser for the Maui Medic Healers Hui!
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Director Laurel Tamayo’s family lost their multigenerational home in the 2023 Lahaina wildfire, the deadliest wildfire in modern US history. Through personal recounts, this documentary paints an intimate portrait of survival, climate change, and community resilience.
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This event will include a showing of the award-winning short documentary, Healing Lahaina, as well as a panel with the director, Laurel Tamayo, about climate resilience and mental health featuring Will Hilbert (The Jed Foundation) and Olivia Ferraro (Climate Cafe NYC).Â
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Key Takeaways:
- Film Screening
- Post-Screening Discussion and Q&A
- Chance-To-Win Patagonia products
- Beverages and light snacksÂ
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Laurel TamayoÂ
Laurel Tamayo is an award-winning filmmaker and impact producer born and raised in Hawai'i. She is passionate about communicating the climate crisis through film & TV. She was recognized in Forbes "68 Climate Leaders Changing The Film and TV Industry." She is currently in the Harvard Executive Education Program, where she was awarded the Bacon Climate Leadership scholarship. She also authored the foreword to the book "Climate, Vulnerability and Health."
Climate Cafe NYCÂ
Climate Cafe NYC is an inclusive social club designed to remove the social and emotional barriers to climate activism. We host regular events across NYC where we combine group discussions of climate-linked emotions with fun activities like open mics, yoga classes, clothing swaps, and pool parties. Our community helps you face your climate anxiety, connects you to impactful local organizing, and keeps you motivated through camaraderie, creativity, and fun. We’re cultivating a more human climate movement to defeat burnout and achieve the scale we need to succeed.
The Jed FoundationÂ
JED empowers teens and young adults by building resiliency and life skills, promoting social connectedness, and encouraging help-seeking and help-giving behaviors through our nationally recognized programs, digital channels, and partnerships, as well as through the media. JED strengthens schools by working directly with high schools, colleges, and universities — representing millions of students — to put systems, programs, and policies in place to create a culture of caring that protects student mental health, builds life skills, and makes it more likely that struggling students will seek help and be recognized, connected to care, and supported. We mobilize communities by providing education, training, and tools to families, friends, media, and others.
Maui Medic Healers HuiÂ
Our Hui envisions the growth of a Puʻuhonua society that is planted in healing justice, embodied abolition, emergent strategy, collective kuleanaship and kūlanaship, and the regeneration of an ʻahupuaʻa economy capable of meeting our basic needs for interdependence, spirituality, food, water, shelter, clothing, rest, education, health, safety, sanitation, transportation, and community. We commit to a future where our healers grow mutual aid medicine, where healing resources are protected and shared communally and ecologically, ensuring equitable distribution of care through networks of Hui and Hua. We seek to build a world where decolonization, abolition, transformation, and community accountability are foundational to our culture, where mutual aid replaces charity and dependency, and where justice emerges from the collective growth of the people and the land.
