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Patagonia presents the Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival On Tour
Date: Sunday, Nov 9
Time: 2:00 PM
SPONSORED BY
Patagonia
LOCATION
Missouri Theatre Center for the Arts
TICKET INFORMATION
Purchase Tickets Online, Missouri Theatre Center for the Arts Box Office
DETAILS
This three hour event will feature short films on natural resources conservation, cooperation among diverse stakeholder groups, and sustainable agriculture. The program will conclude with the award winning documentary, "America's Lost Landscape: The Tallgrass Prairie."
The festival is hosted locally by the Missouri Prairie Foundation in partnership with the Columbia Farmers Market. Our local Patagonia dealer is the Alpine Shop, and information and promotional materials from Patagonia and other national sponsors will be available for those in attendance. Doors will open at 1:00 pm.
The Missouri Prairie Foundation was founded in Columbia in 1966 by a group of conservation professionals and prairie enthusiasts who were concerned about the rapid loss of native prairie habitat in Missouri. Once the most common ecosystem in North America, tallgrass prairie is now less abundant than even the tropical rainforests of Brazil. MPF buys and restores prairie and works with private landowners to sustainably manage our native grasslands.
The Columbia Farmers Market has been providing fresh, local food to Columbia for over 25 years. More information at www.columbiafarmersmarket.org.
The South Yuba River Citizens League (SYRCL, pronounced ‘circle’) started the Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival to promote community building within the Yuba Watershed on the west side of the Sierra Nevada mountains of northern California. SYRCL is a watershed advocacy group that was started in 1983 by a small group of concerned citizens who banded together to fight against several proposed dams. The festival’s namesake is in celebration of achieving Wild & Scenic status in 1999 for 39 miles of the South Yuba River. After twenty-five years, 7,000 supporters and 600 active volunteers later, SYRCL is one of the largest single-river organizations in the nation and the Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival is now the largest film festival of its kind in the United States. January’s annual 3-day event features over 125 award-winning films, plus speakers, celebrities, and activists who bring a human face to the environmental movement.
The tour allows SYRCL to share their success with other environmental groups nationwide. It is building a network of grassroots organizations connected by a common goal, to use film to inspire activism. The festival’s national partners have joined together to support this campaign. By showing the Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival to diverse audiences across the country, we collectively want to inspire more individuals to take environmental action.