Film premiere: Watershed Revolution
from the Ojai Valley Green Coalition...
WATERSHED REVOLUTION DOCUMENTARY
New Film Answers the Question “What Is a Watershed?”
Stunning high–definition cinematography will be featured in the film premiere of Watershed Revolution on June 24 at Ojai’s Chaparral High School Auditorium.
The 30-minute documentary film, which is being shown by the Ojai Valley Green Coalition, profiles our Ventura River watershed and the community members and organizations working to protect and restore it. It highlights the unique challenges faced by a river that is this community’s main source of water. The film emphasizes the need for floodplain protection, sustainable agriculture, and community awareness of local water resources.
After the film there will be a discussion along with a question and answer period, featuring local watershed activists such as Paul Jenkin of the Surfrider Foundation; Steve Svete of the Ventura Hillsides Conservancy; Rick Bisaccia, Preserve Manager for the Ojai Valley Land Conservancy; Steve Sprinkel, organic farmer; Sara Benjamin, “Once Upon a Wetland” educator; Shawn Kelly of the State Coastal Conservancy Wetlands Recovery Project; and Ben Pitterle, with the Ventura Stream Team of Santa Barbara Channelkeeper.
For a preview, log on to watershedrevolution.com/trailer.html. World-class outdoor photographer Rich Reid is the documentary filmmaker. Reid is a resident of the Ojai Valley and a photography instructor at the Brooks Institute. His photographs have been featured by National Geographic Books, Backroads, the New York Times, The Territory Ahead, and the Trust for Public Land. Reid also conducts photo tours and workshops in Alaska.
Watershed Revolution promises to change forever your definition of a watershed. It will be shown at 7:00 p.m. on June 24 at the Chaparral High School Auditorium, 414 E. Ojai Avenue.
For further information on the event or the Ojai Valley Green Coalition, visit www.ojaivalleygreencoalition.org or call (805) 653-8445.
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Comments (1)
there is no sustainable agriculture ...
there is no ventura river, or ventura river watershed ...
this valley, ahi, goddess moon, is the watershed, was largely wetlands, forests, wildlife.
to come together, to honor our sacred relations (stone, river, forest, animals, birds ...) means we will honor the local cultural ancestry -- the Chumash -- those who honor our mother earth, and speak the language of returning to her infinite bounty.
it is not about county, state, federal or corporate monies and chem-industry violence against our people and our valley.
it is about the way of life, the ONLY way of life, which returns the rivers and the forests, the birds and animals, and creates a permaculture in between nature and society ... a permaculture which RETURNS the aquafir, the underground water, forests which PULL the moisture from the skies and channel them into the earth, permaculture which builds the UNDERGROUND life of roots and fungi and worms and bugs uncountable megatons of ferment ... upon which ALL above-ground life is 100 percent dependent upon.
it is NOT a distant relationship of cause and effect, as the movie suggests, it is IMMEDIATE.
when we practice roadbuilding, agriculture, clearing the land for the Fire dept ... this creates YANG land, dead land, exposed to the Sun and dieing.
only when we return the YIN, the leaves, the mulch, the brush, the baby oaks, keep the dead trees, keep the dead brush ... only then does is the water brought down from the skies, only then does the microbial and larger life return under the ground, only then do the trees and forests rise up ...
only then does the aquafir, underground water, rise ...
the creeks flow ...
the Matilija River roar.
a people shout in laughter,
and weep for true joy ...
Comment #1 Posted by: millennium | May 20, 2009 02:38 PM