Wild & Scenic Festival turns 10
THE INAUGURAL WILD & SCENIC Film Festival was an informal gathering at the Miners Foundry in Nevada City. Rivers and Tides, a 2001 documentary, was shown. Actor Peter Coyote and poet Gary Snyder spoke. Though little known, the event organized by the South Yuba River Citizens League (or SYRCL) was a sell out.
In January [...]
Nevada County Arts collaborates with SYRCL’s Wild & Scenic Film Festival
From Nevada County Arts:
Nevada County Arts is delighted to be a sponsor of SYRCL’s Wild & Scenic® Film Festival. An extraordinary arts asset in our community, the festival is considered to be the largest film festival of its kind with films that combine stellar filmmaking, beautiful cinematography and first-rate storytelling. This will be the first [...]
Wild & Scenic and KVMR Co-Present a Special Evening with Amy Goodman
From the Wild & Scenic Film Festival:
Amy Goodman, an award-winning investigative journalist and syndicated columnist, author and the host of Democracy Now! will present a lecture followed by Schooling the World, a film addressing the effects of instituting Western education worldwide, on Jan. 14.
Amy Goodman is the first journalist to receive the Right Livelihood Award, [...]
Artist profile: David B. McKay
FEW PEOPLE CAN MULTITASK better than the Mayor of Nevada City, David McKay. Besides being a community leader, he is an accomplished photographer, silkscreen artist, graphic designer, art director and college teacher.
McKay has also published a book, Yuba Seasons: Images from the Wild & Scenic South Yuba River.
The book has won five national [...]
Films for this year’s Wild & Scenic Film Festival
A list of films for this year’s Wild & Scenic Film Festival, Jan. 14-16 in Nevada City, is here.
Wild & Scenic Film Festival tickets on sale first week of December
Here’s a press release from the Wild & Scenic Film Festival:
Save the Date for SYRCL’s Wild & Scenic® Film Festival Kicks Off
January 14-16, 2011, Tickets Go On Sale First Week of December
This January, SYRCL’s (South Yuba River Citizens League) 9th Annual Wild & Scenic® Film Festival returns with another incredible selection of films to change [...]
Wild & Scenic Film Festival: Where activism gets inspired
“THE WILD REQUIRES that we learn the terrain, nod to all the plants and animals and birds, ford the streams and cross the ridges, and tell a good story when we get back home.”
So writes legendary Beat poet Gary Snyder in his influential collection The Practice of the Wild. The essays are the basis [...]
Wild & Scenic Film Festival celebrates fresh, local, wild
IN ONLY EIGHT YEARS, THE WILD & Scenic Environmental Film Festival in Nevada City hasgrown to become the nation’s largest festival of its kind, drawing 5,000 people to watch 125 films. “Wild & Scenic is the next Sundance,” as one filmmaker puts it.
This year, the festival’s theme is “Fresh Local Wild,” focusing on the revolution [...]
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