georgia aUDUBON mONTHLY mEETINGS
Join us for our free monthly meetings every 4th Sunday of the month from 3:30 to 5:30 PM at Manuel's Tavern located at 602 N. Highland Ave., NE., Atlanta, GA 30307. Our monthly meetings are free and open to the public. Please join us! Free parking is readily available to the south of the building. Food and drinks are available for purchase.
In-person Georgia Audubon Monthly Meetings are currently on hold due to COVID-19. We are offering many of these programs as webinars instead. Please check out our Digital Resources page to see recordings of past webinars and to learn about upcoming Virtual events. We look forward to resuming in-person events when it is safe to do so!
Georgia Audubon Monthly Meeting Webinar
Sunday, October 24, at 3:30 PM
Monty and Rose: The Story of Chicago's Piping Plovers, with Bob Dolgan
FREE
"Monty and Rose" is a 2019 documentary written and directed by Bob Dolgan. The film tells the story of a pair of endangered piping plovers that nested at Chicago's Montrose Beach, becoming the first of the species to nest in the city since 1955. The endangered birds took up residence on one of the busiest stretches of one of the busiest beaches in Chicago. Those interviewed for the film include volunteers, biologists and other advocates who spoke out when a music festival was scheduled within feet of the plovers' nest site. The film made its debut on November 18, 2019, with a showing at the historic Music Box Theatre; Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker declared the date Illinois Piping Plover Day to honor the birds. "Monty and Rose" was an official selection of the One Earth Film Festival and aired on Chicago's PBS station, WTTW Channel 11, on May 2, 2020. More information is available at www.montyandrose.net.
View the trailer here
About the presenter:
Bob Dolgan created his first film, "Monty and Rose," as a volunteer plover monitor in Chicago in 2019. He is a past Board Member of Chicago Ornithological Society and is the writer of the This Week in Birding newsletter, which is published twice each week. His writing has appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times, the Chicago Tribune, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Chicago Reader, Chicago Wilderness, Richmond Times-Dispatch and St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Bob earned his BA from Kenyon College and his MBA from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Sunday, October 24, at 3:30 PM
Monty and Rose: The Story of Chicago's Piping Plovers, with Bob Dolgan
FREE
"Monty and Rose" is a 2019 documentary written and directed by Bob Dolgan. The film tells the story of a pair of endangered piping plovers that nested at Chicago's Montrose Beach, becoming the first of the species to nest in the city since 1955. The endangered birds took up residence on one of the busiest stretches of one of the busiest beaches in Chicago. Those interviewed for the film include volunteers, biologists and other advocates who spoke out when a music festival was scheduled within feet of the plovers' nest site. The film made its debut on November 18, 2019, with a showing at the historic Music Box Theatre; Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker declared the date Illinois Piping Plover Day to honor the birds. "Monty and Rose" was an official selection of the One Earth Film Festival and aired on Chicago's PBS station, WTTW Channel 11, on May 2, 2020. More information is available at www.montyandrose.net.
View the trailer here
About the presenter:
Bob Dolgan created his first film, "Monty and Rose," as a volunteer plover monitor in Chicago in 2019. He is a past Board Member of Chicago Ornithological Society and is the writer of the This Week in Birding newsletter, which is published twice each week. His writing has appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times, the Chicago Tribune, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Chicago Reader, Chicago Wilderness, Richmond Times-Dispatch and St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Bob earned his BA from Kenyon College and his MBA from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
There will be no Monthly Meeting in November due to the Thanksgiving Holiday. Enjoy your time with family and friends, and we look forward to seeing you at our Holiday Party in December!
Save the Date for 2021 Holiday Party & annual Meeting
We are planning to host our annual Holiday Party and Annual Meeting as an IN PERSON event at Manuel's Tavern on Sunday, December 5, from 3:00 to 5:00 PM. Look for more information here or in future issues or our Wingbars or BirdBuzz newsletters. We can't wait to see everyone!
REcordings of Previous Meetings
Georgia Audubon provides recordings of many of our past Monthly Meetings on our YouTube Channel.
