Host a Screening

Bring the 25-minute film version of the Rooted Wisdom: Nature’s Role in the Underground Railroad Guided Experience to your community.

Rooted Wisdom explores how self-liberators used their knowledge of the natural landscape to forge a path to freedom. Community screenings are intended to inspire conversation about how we can honor this knowledge today and create new connections to the landscape.

> Watch the trailer

The film is presented in 4k and 5.1 surround sound with a run time of 25 minutes. Hosts receive a license for a single screening and a screening kit that includes:

Synopsis/Introduction to the film
Resources to facilitate a discussion
Guide to rootedwisdom.org
Images approved for promotional use

PRAISE FOR ROOTED WISDOM

“Beautifully filmed and narrated, Rooted Wisdom reveals the remarkable literacies that self-liberators possessed and used to navigate and sustain themselves during their flights to freedom along the Underground Railroad. This remarkable film confirms freedom seekers and their families as early naturalists with enormous wells of knowledge about the flora and fauna of their worlds and offers us a fresh look at history on landscapes teaming with life. Simply breathtaking!”

–Dr. Kate Clifford Larson, Tubman biographer