The movie “Motherload” will be showing at 7:00 p.m., Friday, October 15 at Gabrielson Park near the Sausalito Ferry. People will be at the park at 6:00 p.m.

“Motherload” captures film maker Liz Canning’s quest to understand the increasing isolation and disconnection of modern life, its planetary impact, according to the film’s we sites. “Motherload” suggest cargo bikes could be an antidote to this isolation and disconnection.

Canning is a lifelong cyclist and former bike racer who currently lives in the hills of Marin, CA, with her husband, teenage twins, and their chocolate Labrador Retriever. Canning cycled everywhere until she had twins in 2008. Motherhood was challenging, but to Liz hauling babies via car felt stifling.

Then Canning discovered the cargo bike. She goggled “family bike” and uncovered a global movement of people replacing cars with cargo bikes: long-frame bicycles designed for carrying heavy loads. Liz set out to learn more, and the movie “Motherload” was born.

“Motherload” is Canning’s feature directorial debut, and has won multiple awards. Since its world premiere in May 2019, “Motherload” has been on a global screening tour featuring over 500 live and virtual venues

“As Canning explores the burgeoning global movement to replace cars with purpose-built bikes, she learns about the bicycle’s history and potential future as the ultimate ‘social revolutionizer,” the website IMDb says. “Her experiences as a cyclist, as a mother, and in discovering the cargo bike world, teach Liz that sustainability is not necessarily about compromise and sacrifice and there are few things more empowering, in an age of consumption, than the ability to create everything from what seems to be nothing.”

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In the joy and dedication of the cargo bike community Liz saw that the choice to live by bike, instead of by car, has powerful positive repercussions. These people make sustainability looking really fun! “Motherload” asks why this is so and what it can teach us about mainstream culture.

For more information, go to www.motherload.com or http://marinbike.org/sausalito

The Marin Post’s coverage of local news in Marin County is supported by the Ethnic Media Sustainability Initiative, a program created by California Black Media and Ethnic Media Services to support community newspapers across California.

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