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01/26/2026 04:30:00 PM01/26/2026 08:00:00 PMAmerica/Los_AngelesFilm Screening: Western Monarch Butterflies: Protecting Our Pollinators with Q&A to followAs western monarch butterflies face the risk of extinction, communities across the Western United States are restoring wild and urban habitats—showing that everyone can play a role in conservation and that protecting monarch butterflies also supports many other native pollinators.
Western Monarch Butterflies: Protecting Our Pollinators follows the western monarch’s remarkable migration across the West. Filmmaker Ian A. Nelson documents both the butterflies’ dramatic decline and the scientists and communities working to protect them, weaving together stunning imagery, scientific efforts, and personal stories that highlight the importance of monarchs and native pollinators to ecosystem health, food systems, and human connection.
Stay after the screening for a Q&A with filmmaker, Ian A. Nelson, and Monarch Joint Venture’s Western Program Coordinator and founder of the Western Monarch Society of Napa County, Erin Arnsteen. As you exit, the Western Monarch Society will be giving away free native milkweed plants for guests to take home and plant to help support western monarchs.
Cameo Cinema
As western monarch butterflies face the risk of extinction, communities across the Western United States are restoring wild and urban habitats—showing that everyone can play a role in conservation and that protecting monarch butterflies also supports many other native pollinators.
Western Monarch Butterflies: Protecting Our Pollinators follows the western monarch’s remarkable migration across the West. Filmmaker Ian A. Nelson documents both the butterflies’ dramatic decline and the scientists and communities working to protect them, weaving together stunning imagery, scientific efforts, and personal stories that highlight the importance of monarchs and native pollinators to ecosystem health, food systems, and human connection.
Stay after the screening for a Q&A with filmmaker, Ian A. Nelson, and Monarch Joint Venture’s Western Program Coordinator and founder of the Western Monarch Society of Napa County, Erin Arnsteen. As you exit, the Western Monarch Society will be giving away free native milkweed plants for guests to take home and plant to help support western monarchs.
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As western monarch butterflies face the risk of extinction, communities across the Western United States are restoring wild and urban habitats—showing that everyone can play a role in conservation and that protecting monarch butterflies also supports many other native pollinators.
Western Monarch Butterflies: Protecting Our Pollinators follows the western monarch’s remarkable migration across the West. Filmmaker Ian A. Nelson documents both the butterflies’ dramatic decline and the scientists and communities working to protect them, weaving together stunning imagery, scientific efforts, and personal stories that highlight the importance of monarchs and native pollinators to ecosystem health, food systems, and human connection.
Stay after the screening for a Q&A with filmmaker, Ian A. Nelson, and Monarch Joint Venture’s Western Program Coordinator and founder of the Western Monarch Society of Napa County, Erin Arnsteen. As you exit, the Western Monarch Society will be giving away free native milkweed plants for guests to take home and plant to help support western monarchs.
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01/26/2026 04:30:00 PM01/26/2026 08:00:00 PMAmerica/Los_AngelesFilm Screening: Western Monarch Butterflies: Protecting Our Pollinators with Q&A to followAs western monarch butterflies face the risk of extinction, communities across the Western United States are restoring wild and urban habitats—showing that everyone can play a role in conservation and that protecting monarch butterflies also supports many other native pollinators.
Western Monarch Butterflies: Protecting Our Pollinators follows the western monarch’s remarkable migration across the West. Filmmaker Ian A. Nelson documents both the butterflies’ dramatic decline and the scientists and communities working to protect them, weaving together stunning imagery, scientific efforts, and personal stories that highlight the importance of monarchs and native pollinators to ecosystem health, food systems, and human connection.
Stay after the screening for a Q&A with filmmaker, Ian A. Nelson, and Monarch Joint Venture’s Western Program Coordinator and founder of the Western Monarch Society of Napa County, Erin Arnsteen. As you exit, the Western Monarch Society will be giving away free native milkweed plants for guests to take home and plant to help support western monarchs.
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