Join Northland College visiting professor Doug Pray on Saturday evening for a sneak preview of his newest documentary film, “Louder Than Guns” at the Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute. The screening will kick off Doug’s three-day documentary film-making course (IDS 150 01), but the screening itself is open to all Northland…
…Our word for the giveaway minidewak means “they give from the heart.” At its center lives the word min. Min is a root word for gift, but it is also the word for berry. In the poetry of our language, might speaking of minidewak, remind us to be as the…
Northland College Filmmaker in Residence Paulette Moore will be screening and discussing The Spirit of Standing Rock, her documentary featuring activists known as Water Protectors, this week in Washington D.C., Baltimore, Maryland, and Buffalo, New York Water Protectors have stood with Standing Rock Sioux leaders in North Dakota to defend…
…College students to create a thirty-minute documentary, called “From Wisconsin with Love,” celebrating the Lake Superior region’s bountiful harvest, including wild rice, and traditional life ways. The documentary will portray all aspects of the harvest season including the spiritual, economic, physical and legal aspects, while incorporating the flavor and faces…
…and writer with Discovery Channel, National Geographic, PBS, ABC and other national and international media outlets. Moore collaborated with YES! Magazine co-founder and editor-at-large Sarah van Gelder to create this documentary from their footage and reporting from Standing Rock camps gathered in the fall of 2016. They chronicled activists known…
…films under the direction of visiting lecturer Paulette Moore. Marissa continues to work with Moore outside the classroom on a documentary premiering in April. “By presenting images that the audience can relate to, film can draw on people’s emotions to create change and action,” Marissa explains. Marissa is looking forward…
…Saturday, May 14, with the 7 p.m. film screening of From Wisconsin With Love at the Minnesota Street Market. The film provides the perspective of the northern Wisconsin community that in 2014 beat back what would have been the world’s largest open-pit taconite mine in pristine forest on the shores…
…cofounder and senior fellow of the Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature, and the Written Word. Its mission is to bring together the practical wisdom of the environmental sciences, the analytic clarity of philosophy, and the emotional power of the written word to re-imagine our relation to the natural world….
…potential threats to the nest site. In fall, data is sent to LoonWatch where it is entered into their database and shared with the WI DNR for management decision-making. Loon Rangers also help protect loons by spreading the word to their neighbors and other lake users to steer clear of…
