Festivals & Events
international wildlife film festival
Climate Chaos: A Sea Change in the Film Industry?
The climate is changing. Not only is Earth’s atmosphere transforming, but the atmosphere among television broadcasters like the BBC, Animal Planet, and PBS is changing too. Slowly they are admitting the necessity of producing conservation films.
At this years International Wildlife Film Festival (IWFF), the topic of an environment in crisis dominated talk between filmmakers. Ten years ago, Festival delegates may have openly discussed their deep concern for nature, but the climate within the wildlife and science film industry was inhospitable to broadcasting stories with a conservation message. The tide has turned. This year, the IWFF celebrated its 30th year by choosing a BBC film about global warming, entitled Climate Chaos, as the best of festival winner. “I think the judges were sending a message,” said Climate Chaos producer Nicholas Brown.
The Festival became a weeklong clarion call to filmmakers to address the global environmental crisis.
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Getting Outside, Growing Inside
Big Sky Youth Empowerment Project Gathers Community Support
Giving youth an opportunity to nurture confidence and healthy friendships while running wild and free in the out-of-doors can provide a life-changing experience. It’s an opportunity that all Montana youth should be granted in life, though some aren’t.
The Big Sky Youth Empowerment Project began in 2002 offering disadvantaged youth an opportunity to snowboard with a small group of kids and role models.
The now six-year-old program based in Bozeman has changed 180 disadvantaged teenagers life by providing the ability to snowboard as well as fly-fish, whitewater raft and horseback ride. One of the unique aspects of BYEP is that following graduation, kids keep their gear allowing them to continue to get outside and advance healthy relationships.
The BYEP Spring Run-Off Fundraiser — cause it can’t happen without community support — will take place at the Emerson Art and Cultural Center at 6 p.m. A live and silent auction with over $50,000 in auction items, a delectable dinner and a grand community gathering will accompany the $30 ticket.
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Rocky Punch
Rocky and Hannity Debate at Kingsbury HallDing! Ding! The fight is on between Salt Lake City Mayor, liberal cause-celeb Rocky Anderson and right-wing-broken record Sean Hannity. Friday night, the two will verbally duke it out at the University of Utah’s Kingsbury Hall in front of a sold out audience…for charity (awwww).
Just so we’re clear – Kingsbury Hall seats around 2000 people and it sold out - in a matter of minutes. I have to say, that’s a lot of butts filling a lot of seats just to see a local hero/villain debate a mildly celebrated Fox News “haircut.”
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Music Friday
Lensic Theatre Brings to Life the Musical Spirit of New MexicoThere’s nothing like a night of wild strumming and singing to get a person revved up about the traditional music, and culture, of a region. And that’s precisely what will happen this Saturday at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe—the seventh annual Nuestra Musica Hispanic folk music concert. New Mexico is abundant with history cultural diversity, and for the past six years, Nuestra Musica has been a wonderful outlet and celebration of that fact. [more]
April 14 11:00 to 4:00 in Julia Davis Park
NewWest.Net/Boise Sponsors Concert for Climate Action This Saturday
Here’s an idea: Let’s have a free concert in Julia Davis Park, with music and booths and a family atmosphere, and gather people to send a message to Congress to take steps to combat global warming. Oh, that’s already a thing? Sign us up!
This coming Saturday, April 14th, Boise residents concerned about the threats posed by climate change will gather from 11am to 4pm at a free concert at Julia Davis Park to urge Congress to cut carbon emissions 80% by 2050, and NewWest.Net/Boise is a sponsor of the event. We’ll have a booth and hope you’ll plan to stop by.
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Music Friday
The Answer Lies is Brashy Punk
This week we’re heading south. South to Las Cruces, to be exact, where The Answer Lies are upholding the fine tradition of punk in splendid style. Just like the punk that I grew up with, they are bratty and brash and pound out their two minute songs at blistering speeds. This is not good punk, this is great punk.
Keep an eye out for any upcoming shows. You will not be disappointed. Click here to listen to Twenty One.
Book Talk & Slides (as in pictures)
Mountaineer/Author John Harlin III To Speak At The CCA
We have more than our fair share of famous adventure sports enthusiasts in Hood River. Now you can add yet another name to the list: John Harlin III. Harlin is a second generation mountaineer whose book “The Eiger Obsession: Facing the Mountian that Killed My Father” has earned major media attention . Here’s just a taste of the press:
“John Harlin III was nine years old when his father made another attempt on a direct ascent of the notorious Eiger. Harlin had put together a terrific team, and, despite unending storms, he was poised for the summit dash. It was the moment he had long waited for. When Harlin's rope broke, 2,000 feet from the summit, he plummeted 4,000 feet to his death. In the shadow of tragedy, young John Harlin III came of age possessed with the very same passion for risk that drove his father.”
Harlin will speak and show slides of his trek on Sunday, March 11th at 4pm, at the Columbia Center for the Arts. Donations accepted at the door Book-signing in the Lobby following the lecture.
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Acoustics in the Gorge
Pick Your Poison in The Dalles, Hood River, or White Salmon
Music lovers are spoiled for choice this week in the Gorge. First in an acoustic concert series, the Wasco Brothers and Terry Robb play Thursday night at the Dalles Civic Auditorium. Friday night take your pick between Nashville star Craig Carothers at the CCA or live Celtic music and dance at the White Salmon Library. Details below… [more]
Conference on World Affairs
Conference on World Affairs Won’t be the Same Without Ebert
Organizers and attendees of CU's annual Conference on World Affairs received some sad news recently: Roger Ebert, who has appeared at the Conference for 37 years running, is too ill to attend this year. As the Rocky Mountain News reported today, "Ebert had surgery in June to remove a growth on his salivary gland; two weeks later, an artery burst near the surgery site, lengthening his recovery time." Ebert's appearances have always been one of the conference's biggest draws. According to Greg Glasgow of the Daily Camera, Ebert's "Cinema Interruptus," in which he stops a film repeatedly to answer audience questions and discuss it in detail, will continue "under the direction of Jim Emerson, a Seattle-based critic who runs Ebert’s Web site. "
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FORMER NHL, OLYMPIC STARS TO SHINE ON ICE
Hockey In Tetons Gets Rowdy For Good CauseFor years, the corn snow days of late winter have been magnets for skiers pouring into Jackson Hole for their last hurrah on the slopes. But March also brings another kind of migration. This one involves a flocking of famous retired professional hockey players and former Olympians from both the U.S. and Canada. What's been great for fans driving long distances to the annual "Jackson Hole On Ice Weekend" is not only that their kids can get autographs from some of the biggest names in the game but the celebrity all-star hockey team does it to benefit local charity by playing against the bruising hometown ruffians, the Jackson Hole Moose.
In 2007, Neal Broten [who played for the U.S. and coach Herb Brooks on the Miracle On Ice team], Bill Ranford, Reed Larson, Dana Murzyn, Bernie Nicholls, Ron Duguay, Greg Adams, Shawn Chambers, Jamie Huscroft, and Benoit Hogue among others hit the ice with actor Dave Coulier on Friday, March 9 at Snow King Arena. Tickets for the game, which begins at 7 p.m., are only $10. The following evening features a country-western jam session featuring famed Nashville singer-songwriters Dillon Dixon, Michael Peterson, Randy Houser, James Dean Hicks, and Chuck Cannon at Spring Creek Ranch. Tickets for that event are $125. All proceeds from the events benefit the Teton Free Clinic. For more information, call 307-732-8102 or view this PDF file.
