Educator Preview: Life in the Great Barrier Reef
Dates
Thursday 23 July | 4:30pm-6:30pm
Light refreshments and networking from 4:30pm. Screening commences 5:15pm.
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Join us for a free educator preview to showcase the exciting new VR experience featured at the WA Maritime Museum during Term 3 and Term 4.
Life in the Great Barrier Reef is a breathtaking 360° VR journey through the UNESCO World Heritage listed Great Barrier Reef. Dive beneath the surface alongside turtles, manta rays, sharks and whales. Witness rare dolphin behaviour, spectacular coral spawning events and vibrant coral ecosystems captured using custom built 8K 360° underwater camera systems developed to bring audiences inside the reef’s underwater world in ways never before possible.
Guided by Traditional Owners, reef stewards and leading scientists, this journey reveals the extraordinary complexity and interconnectedness between land, sea and climate, exploring the ancient Daintree Rainforest and the only place on Earth where two UNESCO World Heritage sites meet.
Discover how coral bleaching, extreme weather events and global pressures are reshaping the ecosystem as the reef’s resilience is tested like never before. Through powerful first-hand insights, world-first footage and unprecedented access to the natural world, witness both the fragility of this extraordinary environment and the critical work underway to help protect and restore it.
Life in the Great Barrier Reef offers students a deeply immersive experience, using cutting-edge 360° filmmaking techniques and world-first footage that will delight their sense of adventure and have them marvelling at the profound beauty of the underwater world on show.
Explore the potential for high-impact STEM learning through this VR screening, an experience that is not to be missed.
Find out more information on school visits to Life in the Great Barrier Reef.
Life in the Great Barrier Reef is a White Spark Pictures production. Financed with support from the National Museum of Australia, Western Australian Museum, Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum, Great Barrier Reef Foundation, Pullman Cairns International and Lady Elliot Island Eco Resort.
The producers wish to acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the Land and Sea Country on which this film was created.
