Tickets for the 2016 SHIFT Festival in Jackson, Wyo., are now available. SHIFT is an organization “dedicated to leveraging outdoor recreation for conservation gains.”
Outdoor Industry Association members are eligible for a 25% discount on the SHIFT Summit (daytime events) with the code ‘PUBLICLANDS’ in Eventbrite.
All evening events at the Center for the Arts in Jackson, Wyo.
Thursday, 10/13, 7 PM: Terry Tempest Williams,Our Public Lands. $10
Williams, like her writing, cannot be categorized. She has testified before Congress on women’s health issues, been a guest at the White House, has camped in the remote regions of Utah and Alaska wildernesses and worked as “a barefoot artist” in Rwanda.
Williams’ forthcoming book, The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks, to be published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in May, is an ode to the complexity and continuity of our public lands, as exemplified in our national parks and monuments.
Williams was recently in the news for her purchase, with her husband, Brooke Williams, of leasing rights to 1,120 acres of federal public lands near their home in Utah. The purchase was made, she wrote in a March 29 essay in The New York Times, “to shine a light on the auctioning away of America’s public lands to extract the very fossil fuels that are warming our planet and pushing us toward climate disaster.”
Friday, 10/14, 7 PM: Adventure, Inspired with Stacy Bare. $15
Stacy Bare, Director of the award-winning Sierra Club Outdoors and recipient of the 2015 SHIFT Adventure Athlete award, will keynote the Adventure, Inspired film program.
The film program, which will take place on Friday, October 14, at Jackson Hole’s premier, 525-seat performing arts center, The Center for the Arts, will explore the topic of engagement by outdoor recreationists whose exploits are chronicled in the evening’s films.
Bare is a 2014 National Geographic Adventure of the Year, a brand ambassador for The North Face and Keen Footwear, and a recipient of the Bronze Star for Merit for a year in Iraq as a Captain in the United States Army from 2006-07. His programmatic work with the Sierra Club Outdoors engages 265,000 people a year in various outings from picnics to major mountaineering and riverine expeditions. The program—the heart and soul of the Sierra Club—includes Military Outdoors, which connects about 13,000 of our service members, veterans, and their families to the great outdoors each year, and Inspiring Connections Outdoors (ICO), which works in more than 50 towns and cities nationwide to connect people and youth to the outdoors who may not otherwise have the opportunities.
Saturday, 10/15, 5 PM: The People’s Banquet with Steven Rinella. $45
SHIFT’s popular celebration of the local food system, The People’s Banquet, pairs local chefs with local farmers, cheese makers, bakers and brewers to create small plates sourced from local ingredients to create Jackson’s “foodie event of the year.”After his presentation at The People’s Banquet, Mr. Rinella will be interviewed by Whit Fosburgh, President and CEO of The Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership.
In his career, Mr. Rinella has spoken to a wide range of audiences about his life as a modern-day hunter-gatherer. With humor and irreverence, he discusses the hunting lifestyle, wild game, the ethics of hunting, and the spiritual need for wilderness.His talks are punctuated with stories of amazing and sometimes absurd adventures, such as getting poisoned by wild mushrooms, charged by a grizzly, bowled over by a moose, and nearly crushed by a wild boar that fell from the sky under very strange circumstances in the central highlands of the Philippines’ Luzon Island.
Mr. Rinella’s numerous books have been awarded the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award and the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award. American Buffalo was named one of the best fifty non-fiction books of 2008 by the San Francisco Chronicle.
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