Telluride local Suzan Beraza is no Rothschild, so she chose to address this daunting eco-challenge in her own special way. Beraza is a filmmaker and editor, so she made a movie. In a way "Bag It" is a populist response to the Sixties pop phenomenon,...
On Saturday, May 29, 12:15, at The Palm, Mountainfilm in Telluride guest author/journalist John Vaillant talks about his latest book,"The Tiger" (Knopf).
Rumors of the death of the publishing business may or may not be greatly exaggerated, but the art of publishing is alive and well in Telluride, home to the American Academy of Bookbinding. Founded in 1993 by Daniel Tucker (also the visionary...
Mountainfilm in Telluride waxes eloquent on the subject of silence with the inclusion of "Soundtracker" in this year's lineup. The documentary, the intersection of science and poetry, was written and directed by Nick Sherman.
It's been a long and winding road from the Wichita Eagle to Mountainfilm in Telluride, where photographer Joel Sartore is a guest presenter at the opening Moving Mountains Symposium. He is also scheduled to give a talk about the findings in his latest book. Both events focus on the crisis of extinction.
“We are living in the sixth major extinction on this planet and the first one to be caused by humans,” says Festival Director David Holbrooke. “The statistics are staggering. We’re currently experiencing the worst spate of species die-off since the loss of dinosaurs 65 million years ago. It’s estimated that a species dies off every 20 minutes. Some scientists predict that between 30 and 50 percent of all species will be extinct by mid-century. E.O. Wilson says that biodiversity is the key to life on this planet and that its collapse is the biggest threat we are facing.”
(editor's note: After publishing it was pointed out that this post was written by Elisabeth Gick. My apologies.)
Telluride and Tibet have more in common than alliteration. Mountain cultures nurture individuals unafraid to reach for the sky. They support shining spirits such as Jamyang Yeshi, the subject of a celluloid study, "Shining Spirit" by filmmaker Karen McDiarmid.
"Shining Spirit" is featured at the 32nd annual Mountainfilm in Telluride Festival. Jamyang is also scheduled to perform his music throughout the long weekend, May 28 – May 31, chock full of lectures (the all-day Moving Mountains Symposium on extinction is Friday), breakfast talks, art, music – and film – in support of endangered species, cultures, and ideas.
Effective May 20, the Town of Mountain Village, Telluride's sister city, will vigorously enforce its amended Business License Program Ordinance. The changes to this piece of legislation, approved unanimously by Town Council last month, specifically address homeowners renting their properties and not remitting lodging taxes collected from renters.
On Saturday, May 22, 7 – 10 p.m., Telluride's historic Sheridan Opera House hosts a Spring Rock Concert featuring local talent from director Mark Galbo's Rock and Roll Academy.
It's Spring, the season of rebirth, renewal and regrowth – and a national ritual: Spring cleaning, a cyclical exercise that goes like this: out with the old, in with the inevitable new, which becomes old and, well, next Spring, if you can bear to part with it, goes out again. Which is why Lita, at the Town of Telluride's public works department, recognized the need for an annual event.
On Thursday May 20 – Saturday May 22, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., the Town of Telluride, in fact all of San MIguel County, is urged to roll up its sleeves to get rid of the flotsam and jetsom of our lives.
Bring the following to West Black Bear Road, near Public Works Facility.
Telluride local Judy Kohin was the original director of the Ah Haa School for the Arts, a local institution in the business of promoting personal epiphanies, hence the name. Recently Judy shared an epiphany of her own with Telluride Inside... and Out following a Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Program (MBSR) she attended at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center.
