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24 May 2011 Mountainfilm in Telluride: What's new this year?

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The Mountainfilm in Telluride festival is 33 years old this year but there is no resting on laurels as it rolls out a variety of new initiatives. Here is a look at changes to expect this year, and why: Base Camp Theater – A new...

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23 May 2011 Mountainfilm in Telluride: Laura Antrim Caskey

Posted at 14:10h in Festivals, Film by Susan Viebrock 0 Comments

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[click “Play”, Susan speaks with Laura Antrim Caskey]     Laura Antrim Caskey is a photojournalist now living in Rock Creek, West Virginia. Rock Creek is also the home of Appalachia Watch, a grassroots nonprofit group Antrim started in 2006 to focus on the environmental...

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06 Mar Mountainfilm in Telluride: First confirmed 2011 Guests

Posted at 09:52h in Around Telluride, Festivals, Old Events, Outdoors by Telluwriter TIO 0 Comments

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Terry Tempest Williams heads list of activists, artists and adventurers    The annual Mountainfilm in Telluride festival is always about much more than just powerful films. What really sets the event apart is the depth and breadth of its line-up of special guest presenters. The 33rd...

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25 Nov Telluride: The Mountain is Open!

Posted at 15:07h in Around Telluride, Outdoors by Clint Viebrock 0 Comments

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Telluride, Thanksgiving Day, 2010 There was a line to pick up my season's pass, and I spent some time filling out the paper work for one more season instructing for the Telluride Adaptive Sports Program (my 12th year). There isn't much terrain open yet, and...

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08 Nov Mountainfilm in Telluride announces grant winners

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Five Mountainfilm in Telluride grantees, from a field of 75 filmmakers, photographers, and adventurers, each receive $5,000 and an Apple laptop computer to help with new projects that key into Mountainfilm’s mission to educate and inspire audiences about issues that matter. The grants are the...

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17 Aug Mountain Biking goes 'Full Tilt in Telluride' this weekend

Posted at 23:03h in Around Telluride, Health and Fitness, Outdoors by Telluwriter TIO 0 Comments

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Check out the Full Tilt in Telluride mountain bike races this weekend. The downhill and cross-country events are qualifiers for the national championship.

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28 Apr Telluride Mountainfilm finalizes 2010 film picks

Posted at 04:30h in Festivals, Film, Old Events by Susan Viebrock 0 Comments

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180 South From over 600 submissions, Mountainfilm has whittled its 2010 official film selections down to roughly 75, a process that Festival Director David Holbrooke says was a "particular challenge" because there were so many strong films.   “As always, we have a wide range of...

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08 Feb Telluride Museum presents: “How I Came to Love a Pedestrian Village”

Posted at 04:00h in Beyond Telluride, Travel by Susan Viebrock 0 Comments

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As Telluride looks to a more sustainable future, is every old model new again? On February 10, 6 p.m., The Telluride Historical Museum presents a lively, invitation only, slide show illustrating the unprecedented 1979 investigation of the gold standard for mountain communities: Zermatt, Switzerland. In 1978  the...

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22 May Telluride Mountainfilm: Lani Alo for the Goldman Environmental Prize

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[click "Play" button to hear Susan's interview with Lani Alo] Entrepreneur/author/environmentalist Paul Hawken was a Telluride Mountainfilm guest in 2007. Telluride was a stop in a tour explaining the idea behind his latest book "Blessed Unrest," a sprawling grassroots movement comprised of tens of millions...

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18 May Former Mountainfilm guest helping to rescue Hubble

Posted at 04:00h in Beyond Telluride, Festivals, Personalities by Susan Viebrock 0 Comments

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Astronaut John Grunsfeld has been to Telluride Mountainfilm twice, the first time in 2000, and the second in 2006. IN 2006, John spoke on the subject was ET, NASA's search for planets with "life signatures." His objective: to help reframe people's thinking about life in...

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