Small Town Universe Collaboration

 

Stories with STEAM The Appalachian Circuit featuring Small Town Universe!

West Virginia Alliance for STEM and the Arts is thrilled to partner with Emmy nominated Director Katie Dellamaggiore and her company Rescued Media to present an exclusive screening of their new film Small Town Universe as part of our new series, Stories with STEAM The Appalachian Circuit, touring West Virginia March of 2025!

Small Town Universe (trailer below) shares stories of love, loss, resilience, hope, scientific discovery, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence in Green Bank, WV, a small town with a big telescope.  STU debuted this past April at the 2024 Cleveland International Film Festival in the historic Mimi Theater, where it won the Global Health Award, and was part of the Solar Eclipse day events that were made possible by a partnership between CIFF, the Great Lakes Science Center, and NASA’s Glenn Research Center.  It has been and continues to go to multiple film festivals, winning awards and audiences’ hearts across the country and beyond.

Details about the WV screening tour locations, times, and associated events are listed below and in the Stories with STEAM announcement flyer displayed below.

Each event will include a screening of the film – free and open to the public, and the chance to join our growing conversation about the importance of community, compassion, connection, and our place in the Cosmos.  Following the screening, you can share your thoughts and questions with Director Katie Dellamaggiore and a panel of people from the film, local scientists, humanity scholars, and others.

We are so grateful to our sponsors the WV Higher Education Policy Commission’s Science, Technology and Research Division, the WV Humanities Council, NASA West Virginia Space Grant Consortium, the WV Film Office, and the WVU Center for Gravitational Waves and Cosmology for their generous support of this program:

and our partners the Green Bank Observatory, WVU’s Department of Physics and Astronomy, WVU’s Department of English, the WVU Institute of Technology, Marshall University, and The Clay Center for their support in so many ways as well!

Watch a trailer of the film: Small Town Universe from Rescued Media on Vimeo.

For more information about Small Town Universe, visit https://vimeo.com/928829091.  To inquire about how to host a screening in West Virginia or the Appalachian Region, please email us at deanaw.wvallstar@gmail.com.

If you get a chance to see the film we would love your feedback! Scan this QR Code (link here) to let us know what you think on the linked form.  Thank you so much for sharing your responses and any ideas on how and/or where to share the film!

This project is presented with financial assistance from the West Virginia Humanities Council, the official state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations do not necessarily represent those of the West Virginia Humanities Council or the National Endowment for the Humanities.