Fri 3/8 @ 6:30PM
The annual Wild & Scenic Film Festival, organized by the South Yuba River Citizens League, just held its 22nd annual festival in Nevada City, California in February. Its films have a dual focus: outdoor adventuring and environmental activism, reflected in showcasing the beauty of unspoiled natural areas. As they share in their vision statement: “SYRCL’s Wild & Scenic Film Festival is a call to action. Our audiences are inspired, educated, and moved to join a growing groundswell for environmental protection and justice.”
After the festival the South Yuba River Citizens League send the films on the road, so that audiences across the country can be similarly inspired and educated by the mostly shorter films, which cover topics ranging from farming to animals to wildfires to underwater exploration to renewal energy projects — from environmental catastrophe to environmental restoration. There’s even a film called Toxic Art, about an Ohio University art professor who worked with an engineer to turn toxic runoff from abandoned coalmines in southeast Ohio into paint and create artwork from it.
Toxic Art will be among the ten films screened at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History when it hosts a selection of films from the Wild & Scenic Film Festival, which will include films chosen from WSFF’s 2023 and 2024 offerings. The one-night event in its Murch Auditorium will also include an hour before the 6:30pm screening where you can meet with local environmental activists from groups such as Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District, Organic Connects, and Citizens Climate Education and learn what they’re doing in this area. There’ll also be a small selection of vegetarian and vegan foods, as well as beer and wine, available for purchase before the screening and during intermission.
In addition, ticketholders will get on-demand access to the films online for five days after the screening. Go here for tickets.
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