Every Little Thing // woo-woo Self-Care Sunday

When
Sunday, May 11, 2025
4 p.m.
Cost: $15
Where
3530 SE Division St
Portland, OR 97202

The following description was submitted by the event organizer.

Join Tomorrow Theater for a special Mother’s Day edition of Self-Care Sunday, with friends from woo-woo. Hold a moment of self-care before a screening of the beautiful film Every Little Thing, which chronicles one woman’s quest to save every injured hummingbird in Los Angeles. Before the film, join a 20-minute Metta Bhavana (roughly translated from Pali to English as “cultivating loving kindness”) meditation.

Join Sunny as she guides a 20-min journey of compassion-as-a-way-of-life. Life spins you up, down, forwards, backward and all around — just like the hummingbird. It’s through your own struggles that you can begin to empathize with others and it’s through awareness of your own suffering that you can take baby steps on the path of liberation for all beings. This practice is accessible to all and will be done mostly in a seated position. No meditation experience is necessary.

ON SCREEN: Every Little Thing

2025. Directed by Sally Aitken. Runtime: 93 minutes. 

Author and wildlife rehabber Terry Masear has an ambitious goal: to save every injured hummingbird in Los Angeles. But the path to survival is fraught with danger. This heart-expanding Sundance hit introduces audiences to Terry’s diminutive patients through breathtaking slow-motion photography and emotional storytelling. Over the course of director Sally Aitken’s moving documentary, we become deeply invested in baby hummingbirds like Cactus and Wasabi, celebrating their tiny victories and lamenting their tragedies. Through Terry’s eyes, each bird becomes memorable, mighty, and heroic. Her compassion and empathy serve as a reminder that grace can be found in the smallest of acts and the tiniest of creatures.