Pete Seeger Documentary - Down by the Riverside

When:
Wednesday, Jul 01, 2026 7:30p -
9:00p

Where:
Somerville Theatre
55 Davis Square
Somerville, MA 02144

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Admission:
$17.75

Categories:
Movies

Event website:
https://www.somervilletheatre.com/production/down-by-the-riverside/

“If there’s hope for the human race, there’s hope for the Hudson.”

-Pete Seeger


Join us for a special screening of Down by the Riverside (directed by Jodie Childers & Dan Messina).


In the 1960s, the American folk singer Pete Seeger devised an extraordinary plan: he built a 106-foot sailboat to save the polluted Hudson River. Down by the Riverside follows the unlikely story of the Clearwater, a boat that launched a movement.


An intimate portrait of Pete, his wife Toshi, and the grassroots community they anchored for over 40 years, this documentary film takes the audience on a musical and nautical odyssey, showing how an unconventional campaign to save a beloved American waterway prompted a green revolution. The tale of the Clearwater is a parable for our time, offering hope for a fractured nation and revealing how participatory imagination can solve environmental problems and transform how we relate not only to the earth but also to one another.


Stay for a Q&A with the filmmakers Jodie Childers & Dan Messina after the screening on July 1st.

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