Trails and Vistas art walk in Truckee/Tahoe Arts With Altitude "The wild requires that we
learn the terrain, nod to all the plants and animals and birds, ford the streams and cross the ridges, and tell a good story when we get back home." So writes legendary Beat poet
Gary Snyder in his influential col- lection The Practice of theWild. The essays are the basis for a docu- mentary with the same name— one of the 100 films that will be shown at this year'sWild & Scenic FilmFestival in Nevada City. Started as a project of the South
Yuba River Citizens League (or SYRCL), the festival has become the largest environmental filmfes- tival in the country, drawingmore than 3,500 people. The film has attracted actors including Peter Coyote,DarylHannah and Patrick Stewart. The 9th annual Wild & Scenic
FilmFestival takes place Fri.-Sun., Jan. 14-16, in Nevada City. This year's tag line, "let's use filmto in- spire activism." "We have films on a broad
range of critical environmental is- sues—climate change, river restor- ation, organic farming and others," says new Film Festival Director Leslie Jacobson. "We also have a lot of adventure films this year, featuring mountain climbing, snowboarding and extreme sports." Themovies are submitted from
all over the world. Gum for My Boat is a story of hope, focusing on the Bangladesh Surf Club.Many of the children are street kids, come from poor families or don't even know how to swim. But their love for surfing brings themtogether. SoLa (or Southern Louisiana) is
a film about the relationship be- tweenman and water, focusing on some of the insidious pollution in the Cajun Countrywaterways. "We never could have predicted our re- portagewould endwith the planet's
biggest ecological disaster—the BP oil spill polluting the Gulf of Mex- ico," says the filmmaker. Growing fresh, local food also is
featured, including a documentary about the Living Lands Agrarian Network inNevada County, a non- profit that offers training andmen- torship to the next generation of farmers. "We practice and promote localized ecological farming for the profound effect it has on our- selves, our neighbors and the plant," the group says. The festival occurs at about
eight venues throughout Nevada City's charming downtown, in- cluding the historic Nevada The- atre where Mark Twain once performed. Festival-goers enjoy watching the films but also eating, shopping andwalking through the historic district. A hallmark of the event is its
free workshops and question-and- answer session with filmmakers and actors. Topics have included "the future of food," "get your film out to the world," and "making the global climate movement visible." More of them will be featured at the upcoming festival, according to Jacobson. PulitzerPrize-winningpoetSnyder,
one of the festival's original atten- dees, is expected to appear this year to discuss his documentary, produced by poet Jim Harrison and Will Hearst, the grandson of William Randolph Hearst and owner of San Simeon Films studio. Filmmaker and environmenta-
list Randy Hayes also is expected. Hayes is founder of the Rainforest Action Network. "People are open- ing their eyes to the damagewe've done to the planet," he says. "We have to get our foot off the throat of the planet's life support sys- tems. And that's going to take a major societal shift in thinking."
Nevada County has more working artists
per capita than almost anywhere in the state. There are hundreds of painters, sculptors, photographers, poets, writers, musicians, dancers and filmmakers. Many of them are world-class talents, with worldwide reputa- tions, not to mention Pulitzer and Grammy winners. (An example is Pulitzer Prize-win- ning poet Gary Snyder; see story left). The county also has more than 60 arts organiza- tions. (See page 33 for InConcert Sierra profile.) "We are an arts destination," says Peggy
Wright, president of the Arts Collaborative of Nevada County, the group charged with pro- moting the county's arts organizations. Here is a sampling of arts events from
Oct.-Dec. For a complete list see Nevada-
CountyArts.org. (Area codes listed are 530). Oct. 8-Nov. 7 To Kill aMockingbird LeGacy Pro- ductions presents a stage adaption of Harper Lee's novel. A five-week run at the historic Nevada Theatre in Nevada City. 268-5419
LeGacyPresents.com Oct. 19-Nov. 14 Northern Miners 27th Annual Arts Exhibition Pioneer Arts of Grass Valley pres- ents the exhibition at The Center for The Arts. 274-8384
TheCenterForTheArts.org Oct. 21-Nov. 13 Rodgers & Hammerstein's A GrandNight for Singing Sierra Stages presents the Tony Award-nominated revue celebrating the songs of Rodgers & Hammerstein at Off Center Stage in Grass Valley. 346-3210
SierraStages.org Oct. 21, 22 HistoricalHauntedWalking Tour 2nd annual historical haunted walking tour in Truc- kee. 305-4231
TruckeeHistoryTour.com Nov. 6 Yuba Watershed Institute's 20th anniver- sary celebration atN. Columbia Schoolhouse Cul- turalCenter.
265-4459YubaWatershedInstitute.org Nov. 4-Nov. 14 The Performing Arts Guild pres- ents AMidsummer Night's Dream at The Center For The Arts in Grass Valley. 274-8384, ext. 14 or
TheCenterForTheArts.org Nov. 14 CATS trip to the San Francisco Opera House for Puccini's Madam Butterfly. 265-2990
CATSWeb.org Nov. 26, Dec. 3, 10, 17 Cornish Christmas in Grass Valley. Recapture the spirit of Christmas past amid the charming surroundings of historic downtown Grass Valley. 272-8315 Downtown-
GrassValley.com Dec. 1, 8, 12, 15, 19 Victorian Christmas in Nevada City. Nevada City's historic district is closed tomotorized traffic and transformed back in time. 265-2692
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