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May 2011

[click "Play" to hear Alec Loorz speak with Susan about climate change and young people]

 

kicker: teen activist featured at Moving Mountains Symposium

Alec-photo Ask Victoria Loorz about her Mother's Day. Likely she will respond by telling you what her son was up to.

And no, he was not out raising hell Ferris Bueller style. Neither was behaving like the proverbial teen skulking in his room. For sure he wasn't sexting. The thought would never occur.

For Mother's Day, March 8, 16-year-old Alec Loorz, through his nonprofit iMatterMarch, had arranged for a series of more than 100 marches in states across the country and 25 countries around the world (including Kuwait) to proclaim a teen revolution. The goal: Let the world know climate change is not about money. It is not about power. It is not about convenience. It is about the future of a generation too young to vote, but aiming to protect its future.

Want to know more?

22 May, 2011 /
[click "Play" to listen to Paul Colangelo's conversation with Susan]  

Moose, water, sky Each year, Mountainfilm in Telluride hands out a Commitment Grant. The award is designed to help creative individuals tell important stories in keeping with the spirit of the event: they are about "Celebrating Indomitable Spirits," the theme of Mountainfilm, and turning Awareness into Action, the motto for 2011 and a running subtext of the event.

Mountainfilm's Commitment Grant goes to filmmakers, artists, adventurers and photographers whose projects are designed to have a positive and tangible effect on vital issues concerning people, places and ideas under siege some place on the map. Photographer Paul Colangelo received one of five $5,000 grants handed out last year. The grant was for Paul's photographic exposition entitled "Sacred Headwaters, Sacred Journey" about the shared birthplace of three of British Columbia’s great salmon-bearing rivers, the Stikine, Skeena and Nass.
21 May, 2011 /
[click "Play", Kate Jones speaks with Susan]

 

Tyler, THERE Five geeks walk into a bar.

No, this is not one of the jokes. No joke at all. It is the latest in a series of initiatives by 40-year-old nonprofit now known as Telluride Arts, formerly the Telluride Council for the Arts & Humanities. (And the five geeks are a star-studded group of local presenters. See below.)

The event takes takes place Monday, May 23, 8 p.m. at THERE.

twenty(by)telluride is meant to be a fun and creative monthly gathering designed to showcase innovation, knowledge, ideas, and creativity of Telluride community members. The get-together is based on PechaKucka Night and TED.

21 May, 2011 /
[click "Play", Emily Shoff interviews her husband, Andy]     Excerpt from 2003…. Wandering the streets of Birmingham, Alabama with Telluride Mountain School’s students, it’s difficult to put a single word on all that I feel. Rage? Relief? Mostly what I feel is awe. Awe for all that has happened in this country. Awe for all that I do not know. I’m here with the 7th and 8th grade class to learn more about Civil Rights in America. For the past week, we have explored the Deep South, touring major battlefields from the Civil War and meeting with former Civil Rights activists. We have visited Memphis, seen the spot where Dr. King fell, and listened to some Blues musicians sing on Beale Street. Now, we’ve come to Birmingham, the heart of Civil Rights activism during the 1960s. 7th Grader Miles Galbo Jumps In on Beale St After a somber morning service at the 16th Street Baptist Church, the place where four little girls died in a bombing in 1963, we have just stepped out of the Civil Rights Institute and into its sculpture garden. One of the sculptures depicts a girl who struggles to free herself from the jaws of a police dog. The dog holds onto her tightly, gripping the hem of her dress. For the first time in a while, the group is silent. The girl speaks to them. She is not much older that any of them, perhaps even younger, and yet she risks her life for freedom. This has been a revelation for everyone as we learn more about the protest movements of the 60’s—learning about the children’s efforts in Birmingham and elsewhere. Across the South, children went to jail and risked their lives in order to draw attention towards the hatred and mistreatment of blacks.
21 May, 2011 /

By David Feela

David Feela (Telluride Inside... and Out met David Feela through Telluride Arts' Mark Fischer Poetry Award, which he judged. We judged the guy to be a shoo-in for Garrison Keillor's replacement as host of The Prairie Home Companion when Keillor throws in the towel in 2013. Feela is that smart. That funny. Who better to riff on the ruptured Rapture?

To double your pleasure, we decided to include two of David Feela's poems on the subject of Apocalypse Whenever, one funny, one serious, two reasons why we are glad to still be hanging out on the Big Blue Marble.

And expect more of the same from David Feela on Telluride Inside... and Out.)

21 May, 2011 /

Mountainfilm in Telluride kicks off the summer festival season in town. And the official kick-off of that party gets underway with Mountainfilm's Gallery Walk.Twelve different venues around town host receptions (drinks and hors d'oeuves ) for artists selected by Festival director David Holbrooke....

20 May, 2011 /

Multimedia Site Lights the Way to 33rd Annual Weekend and Beyond

In the midst of preparing for its biggest-ever festival, Mountainfilm in Telluride completely re-made its website. Mountainfilm executive director Peter Kenworthy says the timing was just right.

“To be able to unveil our new site just as we announce this year’s film list is perfect,” says Kenworthy. “It will mean immediate exposure. Right away we will engage our audiences as never before in our world. We couldn’t be happier. It made this winter a little busy but a spring launch is ideal.”

20 May, 2011 /

May 19 to 26, 2011
Visible Planets: Morning: Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter  Evening: Saturn

Battle Zones, Gangs, Practical Needs and Personal Responsibilities

Greenhouse3 I don’t know about you, but I feel like I’ve been traveling through a metaphysical battle zone lately. I feel grateful and blessed that I have a home that is not in foreclosure. I don’t live in a flood zone, on a fault line or in a location subject to tornados, tsunamis or hurricanes. I don’t live close to a nuclear power plant. I’m able to somehow manage to pay our monthly bills, buy good, nutritious food and prepare it in the style of the slow food movement. We’re in the process of building a greenhouse to extend our painfully short high-altitude growing season and I’m currently nurturing tomato and basil starts for my luscious, delicious culinary future. I do work that I love, maintain a daily spiritual practice, I’m healthy and happy and living each and every moment of my precious life. Bottom line: my life is good, and yet, inside and outside, the battles rage.

20 May, 2011 /
[click "Play" to listen to Wade Davis' conversation with Susan]  

Wade, fireplace Ethnographer, writer, photographer, filmmaker, licensed river guide, Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society and major supporter of Mountainfilm in Telluride, Wade Davis returns for the 33rd annual gathering of the tribe, May 27 – May 30, 2011.

Wade is joined by other wide awake beings, among them, writer Terry Tempest Williams; the voice of youth eco-activists, Tim DeChristopher; eco-adventurer David de Rothschild; Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, co-creators of Peabody-winning PBS documentary "King Corn." With this year's line-up, Mountainfilm director David Holbrooke may just manage to trump last year, which was Mountainfilm's best year ever.
19 May, 2011 /
[click "Play" to hear Jesse's interview with Jake Norton and Wende Valentine]

 

 

by J James McTigue

Jake Norton Jake Norton is an Eddie Bauer First Ascent athlete and world-renowned climber, photographer and guide. He has a list of accolades as tall as Everest, a mountain he has attempted six times and summitted three. His career has taken him to the top of the world’s highest mountains and on explorations across the globe. His newest endeavor is Challenge 21, a campaign to climb 21 peaks, raise 2.1 million dollars and get 2.1 million people involved in clean water initiatives around the world. 

He will be a guest judge for the Charlie Fowler Award at this year’s Mountainfilm in Telluride and a presenter at the Saturday morning coffee talks to discuss climbing the second highest peak in the world, K2. Norton speaks passionately of mountains, but more so of the impact they have had on him.

19 May, 2011 /