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.
Co-sponsored by the West Virginia University Departments of Physics and Astronomy, English and the Center for Gravitational Waves and Cosmology, this exclusive screening will be held on WVU's campus. The event is free and open to all as capacity allows.
Small Town Universe Screening
Reception 6:30 PM
Screening 7:00 PM
Panel Discussion 8:30 PM
G20 Ming Hsieh Hall
765 College Ave, Morgantown, WV 26505
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 CIFF partnered with the Great Lakes Science Center and the John Glenn NASA Center to make happen. It has been and continues to go to multiple film festivals, winning awards and audiences’ hearts across the country and beyond.
Following the screening, attendees will have the chance to join a growing conversation about the importance of community, compassion, connection, and our place in the Cosmos. Director Katie Dellamaggiore will join a panel of people from the film, local scientists, humanity scholars, and other experts to discuss the film and take questions.
We are grateful to our sponsors the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission’s Science, Technology and Research Division, the West Virginia Humanities Council, NASA West Virginia Space Grant Consortium, 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.
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.
For questions related to the event, please send email to: gwac@mail.wvu.edu