MARCH 18, 2010 ISSUE
Banff Mountain Film Festival Tickets Going Fast
Roughly 700 Tickets Still Available for Each Night, 2,000 Total Sold
If you haven’t purchased your tickets to this year’s Banff Mountain Film Festival, right now might be the ideal time to head downtown and pick some up. More than half of the available tickets to the 2010 Banff Mountain Film Festival in Boone have been sold, according to ASU Outdoor Programs. Of the 1,700 available tickets for each night, more than 1,000 have been purchased so far, and with sales expected to increase as the date of the event draws near, tickets are expected to sell out once again.
Tickets to the Banff Mountain Film Festival, which takes place in Boone on Friday and Saturday, March 26 and 27, are available at the Farthing Auditorium Box Office on the campus of ASU and at Footsloggers in downtown Boone. Tickets to the event are $7 for students and $9 for general admission.
Expedition Cycling Workshop at Footsloggers March 27
In conjunction with the Banff Mountain Film Festival, Magic Cycles and Footsloggers are teaming up to host an Expedition Cycling Workshop with adventure athlete and filmmaker Dominic Gill. The event is free and will take place in the courtyard at Footsloggers on Saturday, March 27, from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m.
Gill rode his tandem bike from the tip of North America to the tip of South America on a journey that covered 32,000 kilometers over the course of two years. Along the way Gill documented his extraordinary journey with a video camera and produced a documentary about the experience. The film of the journey, Take A Seat, will be one of the feature films screened at this year’s Banff Mountain Film Festival.
Rich Campbell of ASU Outdoor Programs believes the Expedition Cycling Workshop will be a great opportunity for people in the community to meet one of the filmmakers, to ask him questions about his journey and to get a real idea of what it takes to make a journey of that magnitude.
“It will be fairly loosely structured,” Campbell explained, “so that people can ask him questions and he can talk about what he encountered along his journey, some things to consider when planning an expedition and, basically, it will be a great time to just hang out and learn more about expedition cycling.”
Eric Heistand’s photo Splash or Trash received the 2009 Best in Show and 2009 People’s Choice Adventure awards during the 6th annual Appalachian Mountain Photography Competition. Image courtesy of the artist and the ASU Office of Outdoor Programs
Appalachian Mountain Photography Competition on Display at Turchin
The 7th annual Appalachian Mountain Photography Competition (AMPC) is currently on display in the Mezzanine Gallery of the Turchin Center in downtown Boone. The exhibit will remain on display until June 5.
The AMPC is a program of ASU Outdoor Programs in partnership with the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation and the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts. The AMPC has grown to become a prominent regional competition attracting the work of amateur and professional photographers from across the country allowing them the opportunity to celebrate the unique people, places and pursuits that distinguish the Southern Appalachians.
The operating hours of the Turchin Center are from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday, and from noon to 8:00 p.m. on Friday. The Turchin Center is closed on Sunday and Monday.
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