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The open-air Thalden Pavilion at Southern Oregon University invites visitors to dance, create art, teach and celebrate in the spirit of sustainability, its builders say. Director Cici Brown’s 17-minute film, “Wings & Sails,” captures how architect Christopher Brown, philanthropist Barry Thalden and contractor-engineer Dan Wahpepah pulled off the Thalden Pavilion’s unique timber-and-sail stage. The pavilion’s message of sustainability is about “standing up and speaking out, leading us in a new direction, leaving the planet in the hands of future generations, and creating a setting without walls, where kids can learn and create positive solutions,” Thalden says in the film. In celebration of Women’s History Month, the film will show at Ashland’s second Annual Women’s Film Festival on Saturday, March 9, at the Havurah Shir Hadash, 185 N. Mountain Ave. The festival runs from 4 to 6 p.m. Six other female filmmakers also will show their work. “Wings & Sails” chronicles the design and construction of the pavilion, how the builders overcame cost overruns, and the engineering involved in hoisting the pavilion’s giant beams. It also features Russell Beebe’s carvings that tell a mythical story of nature and humans in the valley. Christopher Brown, nephew of the director, notes the intent of the movie “is to show the holistic, comprehensive process, which is so much more than any individual, in creating a community space of good will, a gift for future generations and a learning tool for all.” The pavilion is used by SOU, Ashland High School, Ashland Middle School, Walker Elementary School, Willow Wind Community Learning Center and the adjacent SOU organic garden, which supplies school lunch programs. “It’s a classroom not defined by four walls but four seasons — and it references natural systems and growth, and is vibrant and dynamic, responding to situations around it,” says Christopher Brown. “It’s being played like an instrument in an orchestra, played by the wind, light and weather — and you have to love the way children play and hang all over it. “It’s a science lab, theater space, art space, music stage, outdoor classroom and honors our return to farming and natural principles — and how sustainability is a real turning point in the history of our culture,” he says. Cici Brown says she’s entered “Wind & Sails” in seven film festivals but did not get accepted into the locals category of the Ashland Independent Film Festival. She says the movie “is about local issues, sustainability and collaboration, which add up to a real impact on how a community like ours can come together and create.”