All Too Clear – August 10, 6 p.m. at the Stockey Centre

Mark your calendars for the evening of August 10 to view All Too Clear – an amazing scientific documentary film with spectacular underwater footage and informative narrative to understand more about the impact of invasive quagga mussels on the ecology of our irreplaceable Great Lakes.  

Georgian Bay Forever and the Georgian Bay Mnidoo Gamil Reserve present the film’s premiere at the Stockey Centre in Parry Sound. Doors open at 6:00 pm for guests to meet their hosts, Georgian Bay Forever, the Georgian Bay Biosphere, and documentary producers, Inspired Planet. Enjoy several informative booths, a beverage at the cash bar, and a unique opportunity to see the underwater robots involved in filming. 

Opening ceremonies and remarks will begin promptly at 7:00 pm. The 90-minute film will be followed by a Q&A period where guests can ask questions of the producers, Zach Melnick and Yvonne Drebert, and several of the scientists featured in the film. 

All Too Clear uses cutting-edge underwater drones to explore how quadrillions of tiny invasive mussels are re-engineering the ecosystem of North America’s Great Lakes at a scale not seen since the glaciers. The mussels are trapping nutrients, the building blocks of life, on the lake bottom. Without nutrients, organisms – from the tiniest plankton to the largest fish – vanish, creating vast biological deserts. The scientific community is divided into those racing to find a way to control the invaders and those who see an ironic silver lining in the new world created by the mussels – a once-in-a-lifetime chance to restore an ancient and forgotten native ecosystem.

The mussels have also had an extraordinary side effect: they’ve made the lakes clearer than ever. This clarity has been harnessed to film never-before-seen visuals: from dazzling shallow water worlds that look more like the Caribbean than the Great Lakes to previously undiscovered shipwrecks, completely entombed in mussels, 300 feet beneath the surface. 

Don’t miss this extraordinary event! Tickets are $10 each to cover costs for the charities presenting this event.