Craig Foster, Ross Frylinck, and Sy Montgomery will discuss new book at virtual 92Y talk
Who: Craig Foster, Ross Frylinck, Sy Montgomery
What: Virtual discussion as part of 92Y Recanati-Kaplan Talks
Where: 92Y online
When: Tuesday, November 16, $20, 7:00
Why: One of the most popular and poignant films of the pandemic era has been Pippa Ehrlich and James Reed’s Oscar-winning documentary My Octopus Teacher. The film details the incredible friendship between South African filmmaker Craig Foster and an extraordinary octopus in a kelp forest at the bottom of the ocean and how that affects his relationship with his son, Tom; while we were all locked in our homes, it offered a beautiful respite from our loneliness. Foster (The Great Dance: A Hunter’s Story, Touching the Dragon) and his diving partner Ross Frylinck have now written the book Underwater Wild, which shares stories of their undersea adventures with sea hares, cuttlefish, limpets, and many other marine creatures that can teach humans a thing or two.
In her introduction, Jane Goodall writes, “A friend of mine, knowing of my fascination with octopuses, sent me a link to the film My Octopus Teacher. I knew I was in for a treat, but there was no way I could have imagined what a transformative and entrancing experience was in store for me.” On November 16 at 7:00, Foster and Frylinck, cofounders of the Sea Change Project, which “tells stories that connect people to the wild, motivating them to become part of the regeneration of our planet,” will discuss the book in a 92nd St. Y virtual talk with Sy Montgomery, author of such books as The Soul of an Octopus, Tamed and Untamed: Close Encounters of the Animal Kind, and The Good Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood.