11th Annual Gila River Festival: On-line Registration NOW AVAILABLE
REGISTRATION NOW AVAILABLE!
11th Annual Gila River Festival
Finding Balance in a Changing World
September 24 – 27, 2015
Daily Schedule: Thursday / Friday / Saturday / Sunday
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The 11th annual Gila River Festival will explore the escalating tension between nature, man and rapid technological innovations. What does this mean for the future of the Gila River and its watershed?
Several events, beginning with film maker Godfrey Reggio’s keynote address about the relationships between man and his surroundings, will speak to the imbalance between society and nature. The Gila Time-Lapse Film Festival will feature films that compress or extend time, allowing us to perceive nature and technology in new ways.
In keeping with the theme of exploring ways to live in balance with nature, bio-regional aural historian Jack Loeffler will lead his panel discussion, “Thinking Like a Watershed,” featuring voices from different cultural perspectives.
As in previous years, the Gila River Festival will have expert-guided field trips, a Gila River kayak trip, a family-oriented puppet parade, and many more activities.
THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS WHO MAKE THE GILA RIVER FESTIVAL POSSIBLE!
Center for Biological Diversity ~ Dennis Weller Photography ~ Fort Sill Apache Tribe ~ Gila Haven ~ Gila/Mimbres Community Radio – KURU ~ Gila Native Plant Society ~ Heartpath – Meyoni ~ Heartwoods ~ KUNM ~ McCune Charitable Foundation ~ Murray Hotel ~ New Mexico Humanities Council & the National Endowment for the Humanities ~ New Mexico Wilderness Alliance ~ Pitchfork Ranch ~ Sandra & Glenn Griffin/Gila Tree Thinners ~ Stream Dynamics, Inc. ~ T & E, Inc. ~ Western New Mexico University New Media iDEA Lab
Sponsors
Ann McMahon Photography – www.AnnMcMahon.com ~ Axle Canyon Ecological Preserve – www.axlecanyon.com ~ Bob Garrett & Mary Hotvedt ~ Bob Wilson & Lisa Houston ~ Carol Morrison & Larry McLaud ~ Far Flung Adventures ~ Gila Wild Defense Fund ~ High ~ Shelby Hallmark & Lindee Lennox ~ Sierra Club Southern New Mexico Group ~ Single Socks – A Community Thrift Store ~ Southwestern New Mexico Audubon Society ~ Vicki Allen, LISW, Individual, Child and Couples Therapist ~ Western Institute for Lifelong Learning
Friends
Bob O’Keefe ~ Conservation Voters New Mexico Education Fund ~ Curious Kumquat ~ Desert Woman Botanicals ~ First New Mexico Bank ~ Gila Wild Defense Fund ~ Guadalupe’s ~ Mary Burton Riseley ~ Melvyn Gelb & Mary Ann Finn ~ Pauline & Richard Matthews ~ Prudential Silver City Properties ~ Regalos de la Tierra Pottery Co. ~ Richard Mahler, Relham LLC ~ Robert Pittman & Kathleen Wigley ~ Ron Henry ~ Ronald Parry ~ Silver City Food Co-op ~ Syzygy Tileworks ~ TheraSpeech ~ W. Jay Garard DDS