Join us for a half-day nature experience at KFBG, featuring the film screening of ‘Journey of the Universe’ and a post-screening online exchange with the producers, Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim, who are the Senior Lecturers and Research Scholars at Yale University. ‘Journey of the Universe’ is a multimedia project presenting an epic story of cosmic Earth and human evolution. It consists of an Emmy Award-winning film drawing on the discoveries of modern science and the wisdom of the world's cultures.

The film narrates the 14-billion-year story of the universe's development, from the great flaring forth at its inception to the emergence of simple molecules and atoms, from the evolution of galaxies, stars and solar systems to planetary life of greater complexity and consciousness. This is a story that inspires wonder as we begin to understand this complexity through science and appreciate beauty through poetry, art, history, philosophy and religion. In times of immense challenge on every front – socially, politically, ecologically and spiritually, we need a new story to reorient and ground ourselves to meet these challenges. A comprehensive story of the universe, Earth and humans can inspire transformation in our times and move us toward the creative flourishing of the Earth community.

We are pleased to invite you to join this half-day nature experience at KFBG. This special afternoon includes:

• Solo time with moderated forest-immersion guided support in the beautiful lower stream area of KFBG.
• A light sustainable vegan dinner provided by Green Hub.
• ‘Journey of the Universe’ film screening.
• Post-screening online dialogue and exchange with the producers Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim.

You are welcome to join the full half-day experience onsite at KFBG, or you can choose to participate only in the film screening and post-screening talk, either onsite or online via Zoom.

Speakers

Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim are affiliated faculty with the Yale Center for Environmental Justice at the Yale School of the Environment. They direct the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology, which arose from ten conferences they organized at Harvard's Center for the Study of World Religions. They are series editors of the Harvard volumes from the conferences on Religion and Ecology. Tucker specializes in East Asian religions, especially Confucianism. Grim specializes in indigenous traditions, especially Native American religions. Grim and Tucker have written a number of books including Ecology and Religion (Island Press, 2014) and edited the Routledge Handbook of Religion and Ecology (2017). They are editors for the series on Ecology and Justice from Orbis Books. They have created six online courses in “Religions and Ecology: Restoring the Earth Community.” They were students of Thomas Berry and collaborated over several decades to edit his books. They also wrote Thomas Berry: A Biography with Andrew Angyal (Columbia, 2019). With his article “The New Story,” Berry was a major inspiration for Journey of the Universe. With Brian Thomas Swimme, Tucker and Grim created this multi-media project that includes a book (Yale, 2011), an Emmy award winning film, a series of Conversations, and online courses from Yale/Coursera. Until 2020, following in Berry’s footsteps, Grim served as president of the American Teilhard Association and Tucker as Vice President for over three decades.

Date: 23 August 2025 (Saturday)

Time: 16:15 - 20:45 HKT (08:15 - 12:45 GMT)

16:15-17:30 Silent time in nature (onsite only)
17:30-18:30 Light vegan dinner (onsite only)
18:30-20:45 Film screening and post-screening talk (onsite & online)

Three options to participate in this event:
Option 1: Join full half-day experience onsite at KFBG, 16:15-20:45 HKT
Option 2: Join film screening and post-screening talk onsite at KFBG, 18:30-20:45 HKT
Option 3: Join film screening and post-screening talk online via Zoom, 18:30-20:45 HKT

Language
English (Onsite activities with Cantonese support; Film has simplified Chinese subtitles; Q&A session supports simultaneous interpretation in Cantonese and Putonghua)

Fee
Option 1: HK$300 for KFBG admission, onsite activity and a light vegan dinner
Option 2: HK$50 for KFBG admission only
Option 3: Free (a donation to support our conservation work will be appreciated) 
* Film will be screened for free

Application
Option 1: CLICK HERE
Option 2: CLICK HERE
Option 3: CLICK HERE

Enquiry
Email Ms Jamie Ngai at jamie.ngai@kfbg.org

Kadoorie Earth Programme (KEP) is co-created by KFBG and its network of collaborators and volunteers. By integrating the various strands of KFBG’s nature conservation, sustainable living and holistic education programmes, it provides life-transforming learning experiences that reconnect people with themselves, each other and the rest of nature and enable them to cultivate resilience in the face of climate crisis, economic uncertainty and other related challenges.

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