Patagonia's Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival

Children's Show

Wednesday, July 13, 2008 · 6pm

Farthing Auditorium[ Map ]

Appalachian State University

Boone, North Carolina

Sponsored by Footsloggers Outdoor & Travel Outfitters

Recommended for children ages 8 and up. This family screening features a 50-minute program celebrating children who are learning to respect and advocate for the environment.

"...an awesome way to bring people together in the name of community and to help us wake up to the fact that the living system of the earth is in peril and we all need to do the right thing; we each need to make a difference." - Charlie Woodruff, Winter Wildlands Alliance

The Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival stands apart from the hundreds of festivals around the world by inspiring and motivating viewers to go out and make a difference in their communities and the world. This is a festival for activists by activists, organized and hosted by the South Yuba River Citizens League, a grassroots environmental organization that has been bringing their community together around the protection of the Yuba Watershed for 25 years.

Learn new ideas from a selection of inspiring environmental films with hard-hitting topics including bioengineering, water issues, wilderness preservation, citizen activism and more. Explore the issues and movements with leading environmental activists and professionals, filmmakers and celebrities. Join us for this 3-part film festival, featuring over 20 short films, on Wednesday, July 9 and Sunday, July 13.

Since the Wild & Scenic Film Festival began touring in 2004, it has traveled to over twenty locations nationwide. Its founders have a goal of reaching over 50 communities in 2007, and plans to tour to 100 towns and cities over the next three years. An Appalachian Summer Festival is pleased to serve as a venue for the Wild and Scenic tour and a vehicle for our local conservancies' messages of environmental preservation.

Other screenings:

Special Exhibition

A special visual arts display in the Catherine J. Smith Gallery, curated by Hank Foreman and Brook Bower of the Turchin Center, features a preview of a series of paintings by local landscape artist Lowell Hayes that documents the loss of the hemlock trees to the Hemlock Wolly Adelgid. Other displays feature information about our local nature conservancies.