Pacific Wild invites you to participate in this year's
Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival
www.banffmountainfestival.ca
We are pleased to announce that images from the Great Bear Wild Exhibit and the award-winning documentary spOIL will have a presence at the Banff Mountain Festival. These are two of the creative outcomes from last year's GREAT BEAR RAVE that continue to travel across North America and showcase our work to expose the threats to the Great Bear Rainforest.
PHOTOGRAPHY ON FOOT
Saturday, October 29th
5-6pm
Meet in Professional Development Centre Lobby
Celebrate mountain photography and art with a gallery walk through the Banff Centre campus, including a stop at the Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Building for “Sacred Headwaters - Sacred Journey” and “spOILed - from the Tar Sands to the Great Bear Rainforest”. The walk concludes downtown with a complimentary reception at the Wild Flour: Banff’s Artisan Bakery Café from 6:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Sunday, October 30th Exhibition Opening
Sacred Headwaters-Sacred Journey
and spOIL-From the Tar Sands to the Great Bear Rainforest
5-6 PM at the Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Building
These exhibits, the result of photographic RAVE expeditions by the International League of Conservation Photographers (iLCP), highlight threats to the headwaters of the Skeena, Nash, and Stikine Rivers and to the Great Bear Rainforest. Join Wade Davis, author, National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence and iLCP Fellow, along with iLCP photographer Paul Colangelo and representatives of the groups supporting the conservation efforts of the Great Bear Rainforest, to learn more about the need to conserve these unique ecosystems. www.ilcp.com
spOIL
produced by EP Films and iLCP
Saturday Nov. 5th @ 2 pm
Max Bell Auditorium
and
Sunday Nov. 6th @ 2pm
Eric Harvie Theatre
The Gitga’at First Nation of British Columbia lead a team of renowned photographers in an attempt to photograph the elusive all-white spirit bear. Respect for their local guide, who is deeply connected to the bear and its environment, heightens the drive to protect a place threatened by a proposed oil pipeline.
Watch the trailer here.
You may also find of interest:
Searching for the Spirit Bear Exhibition
Laszlo Funtek Building, Theatre Complex
In September 2010, photographer Paul Nicklen, a Founding Fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers (iLCP), entered British Columbia’s Great Bear Rainforest in search of an elusive and revered creature – what the Gitga’at call mooksgm’ol; the spirit bear; Kermode bear; a walking contradiction – a white black bear. Marvel at Paul’s striking images in a unique outdoor exhibition.
Download Exhibitions poster (pdf)
Go to Pacific Wild's schedule of events for other events involving spOIL and the GREAT BEAR WILD exhibition.
To learn more about Pacific Wild's conservation efforts please visit www.pacificwild.org