China on Display at Frontier Café and Cinema

Café hosting Nature Conservancy photo exhibit and airing Olympic coverage daily

BRUNSWICK, ME — August 8, 2008 — As the 2008 Summer Olympic Games begin in Beijing, Brunswick Frontier Café and Cinema announced it will air televised Olympic coverage from its cinema weekdays from 10am to 4pm and Saturdays from 11am to 11pm. Admission to the cinema is free.

During the Games, Frontier is also hosting The Nature Conservancy’s compelling China photography exhibit, Photovoice.

In 2000 – as the world watched the Summer Games unfold in Sydney, Australia – several hundred villagers in the remote northeast corner of China’s Yunnan Province began photographing their daily lives. For many, the project marked the first time they had ever used a camera; some had never seen a photograph.

Photo Exhibit: "Voices from the South of the Clouds"

By recording their families, traditions and landscapes, these people have played an important role in the Yunnan Great River Project. The project is an effort by the Conservancy and the governments of China to establish protected natural areas in the Yunnan – a region slightly smaller than Maine – in a way that promotes economic well being and preservation of cultural heritage. The photographs fascinate, inform, and inspire – displaying the connection between the people and the nature of Yunnan.

For more on Photovoice and The Nature Conservancy's work in China, visit nature.org/china.

For directions to Frontier Café, visit explorefrontier.com.

For profiles and event schedules of Maine athletes in Beijing, visit the Portland Press Herald's site.

The Nature Conservancy is a leading conservation organization working around the world to protect ecologically important lands and waters for nature and people. To date, the Conservancy and its more than one million members have been responsible for the protection of more than 15 million acres in the United States and have helped preserve more than 102 million acres in Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific. Visit The Nature Conservancy on the Web at www.nature.org.