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The event, Jane Goodall Live!, will be broadcast in real time to movie theaters across the country, and will include a showing of the new biopic Jane’s Journey chronicling the animal rights activist’s long and successful career. Event organizers hoped that teachers could use the show as an extra credit opportunity for students, with the goal of getting more young people involved and interested in the animal sciences.
Goodall also runs a program through the Jane Goodall Institute which is designed to educate students about environmental and conservation issues around the globe. Her “Roots & Shoots” program is intended to help students realize that science doesn’t have to be “cold and objective”. Instead, she said, these types of programs “can lead to new ways of interacting with animals and the environment”.
Goodall also reflected on some of the lessons her studies of chimpanzees have taught her about humans over the years. In particular, Goodall said she noticed “the importance of early experience” for chimpanzees.
“Good mothers and bad mothers make a difference in adult behavior,” Goodall said of chimpanzees. “This is the same with human children.”
The live event will feature more of Goodall’s insight from her years of experience as an anthropologist, as well as personal appearances by Angelina Jolie, Charlize Theron and the Dave Matthews Band.
Matthews is a longtime fan of Goodall, and has often voiced admiration for her contributions to science.
“When I think of people that have changed the world—Gandhi, Mandela, Einstein, Mother Teresa—she’s in there,” Matthews said.
For more information about Jane Goodall Live! and how to purchase tickets, visit www.fathomevents.com/jane .
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