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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#00AEEF'>Documentary Screening & Expert Panel Discussion</span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#221E1F'>6:00pm on Thursday May, 3, 2012: </span></b><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#00AEEF'>Massachusetts Whale Awareness Day</span></b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#00AEEF'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Maxwell Theater in Plimoth Planation’s Welcome Center<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Free tickets can be secured at</span></b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> <a href="www.whales.org">www.whales.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>The Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society will offer the public a complimentary screening of <i>Ocean Frontiers</i></span><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>: </span></i><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>The Dawn Of A New Era in Ocean Stewardship</span></i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <span style='color:black'>as a way to celebrate Massachusetts Whale Awareness Day. Securing the proclamation for Whale Awareness Day was only the first step for WDCS, the most important part is to ensure that as many people as possible recognize the various species that live off our coast and that everyone does their part to help eradicate the threats that they face</span>. After the movie experts will discuss the issues at hand in our area and what individuals can do to help lessen the impact we have on the whales native to our area. <span style='color:black'>Free tickets </span>must be reserved through <span style='color:black'><a href="http://www.whales.org">www.whales.org</a> or through Plimoth Cinema at <a href="http://www.plimoth.org">www.plimoth.org</a> and more information on how to support work to better the lives of all whales and dolphins can be found at <a href="http://www.whales.org">www.whales.org</a> as well.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>The myth of the boundless ocean is no more. But from the troubled waters now rises a new wave of hope, of prosperity through preservation, playing out in communities across the country and intimately captured in the new film by Green Fire Productions, <i>Ocean Frontiers</i>. This documentary and outreach campaign to inspire and mobilize audiences to better care for the ocean, for the good of all. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Ocean Frontiers</span></i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> takes us on an inspiring voyage to seaports and watersheds across the country—from the busy shipping lanes of Boston Harbor to a small fishing community in the Pacific Northwest; from America’s coral reefs in the Florida Keys to the nation’s premier seafood nursery in the Mississippi Delta. Here we meet an intermingling of unlikely allies, of industrial shippers and whale biologists, pig farmers and wetland ecologists, sport and commercial fishermen, reef snorkelers and many more, all of them embarking on a new course of cooperation, in defense of the seas that sustain us. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:12.05pt;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>The Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS) is<span style='color:black'> the world’s most active charity dedicated to the conservation and welfare of all whales, dolphins and porpoises.</span> WDCS’s <span style='color:black'>North American branch is based in Plymouth, MA; there staff, volunteers and interns conduct research and work to protect whales from threats ranging from entanglements and ship strikes to whaling and behavioral disturbance.</span><b><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='color:black'>WDCS derives over ninety percent of their funding from private support and dedicates an average of eighty-three cents per dollar raised directly to programs that impact change.</span></b><span style='color:black'> Visit </span><a href="http://www.whales.org">www.whales.org</a> <span style='color:black'>to learn more about how you can help as a volunteer, advocate, or donor. <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>For more information contact:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Karen Urciuoli <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>508-746-2522 office <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>617-501-7892 cell phone<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="mailto:karen.u@wdc.org">karen.u@wdc.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.whales.org">www.whales.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>