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Promoting Sustainability Through Community
Join
Red
Rock
Forests as they host the Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival On Tour, the largest film festival of its kind in
North America, in downtown
Moab.
Red
Rock Forests has hand-selected ten unique films of varying length that
explore creative ways that people all across the globe are using their
'built' environments more sustainably, and thus reducing the demands
and pressures for resources from our wild places. A sampling of the
festival includes a trip to Australia where the city of Melbourne is
reinventing its urban landscape with wider sidewalks, greener streets,
eclectic cafes and public art to make it a bustling pedestrian haven;
to a beach in New Zealand where an artist makes beautiful sand
mandalas; on a tour of three faith congregations and how they are
driven by their spiritual and religious convictions to re-examine what
it means to be human and how we live on this planet; to an urban
homestead in California where a family harvests nearly 3 tons of
organic food from their 1/20 acre garden; and on a road trip that tours
North America, dodging Yellowstone's grizzlies and Miami's taxicabs,
and highlighting sustainable road projects and wildlife corridors for
the 21st century.
The
festival is a natural extension of the past ten years, during which
Moab-based Red Rock Forests has been protecting the forests and
watersheds of the La Sal and Abajo Mountains--the sole watersheds for
southeastern Utah's Greater Canyonlands Basin. Through local and
regional citizen outreach, we provide many opportunities for community participation, as
our membership gets involved in everything from trail restoration to
speaking out at public meetings and commenting on proposed forest and
watershed projects.
The
Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival was started by the
watershed advocacy group, the South Yuba River Citizens League (SYRCL).
The festival's namesake is in celebration of achieving Wild &
Scenic status for 39 miles of the
South
Yuba
River in 1999. The
festival enabled SYRCL to mobilize their community for the advocacy of
its local watershed. The Wild and Scenic Festival On Tour partners with
environmental and grassroots groups to host tour venues across the
country reaching 75 towns and cities. The festival brings a community
together around film allowing audiences an opportunity to evaluate
local issues affecting their surrounding area. The films inspire,
entertain and motivate people to go out and make a difference in their
community and around the world.
Doors open at
5:30 pm and the show starts at
6 pm. Tickets are only available at the door. $10 at the door, $5 for children 12 and under. For more information, call 435-259-5640 or visit http://www.redrockforests.org.
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