We are finalizing the list of events for the 2012 festival. It will be posted shortly.

LIVING GREEN KRV FESTIVAL

The all-volunteer nonprofit organization Kern River Valley Revitalization has organized a Living Green Kern River Valley Festival LivingGreenKRV.org every March since 2009. KRVR VP Richard Rowe & Board Member Jenny Hanley have led a group of volunteers in organizing & putting on the festival.

IDEA/INFO: Richard Rowe (760) 333-4561 livinggreen@mchsi.com or Jenny Hanley (760) 376-4384 jhanley999@msn.com.

PROPOSED Living Green 2012 Events

We're working on the list of films to be shown as part of the March 2012 Festival.

We've shown 55 films since we began showing FREE GREEN FILMS -- List of Films Shown

2011 Living Green Film Festival:

5 green films for adults; 3 for children

Central & Southern California Premiere:

Green Fire: Aldo Leopold & a Land Ethic for Our Time 10am & 3pm, Saturday, March 26

Links to more information on the films we're planning on showing below

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2011 Living Green Kern River Valley Festival

Remaining Events

From Thursday, March 24 through Sunday, March 27 there are 17 remaining events
All but one (the 1k/4k/10k Run on April 2) are FREE. 10 are Kids Friendly & FREE

Schedule of Events

42 events; 33 are FREE; 27 are Family Friendly events.

2011 Living Green Kern River Valley Festival

Family Friendly Events

Of the 42 events in the whole Festival; 29 are Family Friendly events (24 of which are FREE!)

NOTE: Main festival will be held March 17 through 27, 2011, but there are events before/after too.

Kern County’s longest-running Green Festival

Escape to California’s Southern Sierra Nevada to see Wildflowers, experience Nature and share Living Green ideas around Lake Isabella, 3 hours N of L.A.

Most Events are FREE & family-friendly:
5K Run for Living Green, Arts & Crafts, Community Faire, Farmers Market, Food, Gardening talks, Green Fashion Show/High Tea, Green Films, Green Cars, Green EXPO, Keyesville Classic Mtn. Bike Race, Native Plant Sale, Solar & Wind tours...

Printable List of Proposed Events

Where to stay in the Kern River Valley

Kern County Attractions

More INFO below

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Since our first Living Green KRV Festival in March 2009, we've shown 44 films.

• List of the 44 Green Films we've shown since March 2009 (through March 2010).

Like all of our events, volunteers make things happen.

2010/11 Green Films Committee:

• Valerie Cassity, acting-chair & kids’ films chair
• Joy Tessman
• Kari Maki Julian
• Katie Olivares
• Martine C. McGuire
• Tysun McMullan

The 2010/11 Green Films Committee is working on proposals for this coming year, including showing a green film the 1^st Wednesday of every month throughout the year. Tentatively planned is a Kid’s Green Film Day on Sunday, March 20, 2011 and Green Film Festival on Saturday, March 26, 2011 during our main festival.

Among the films we are likely to show this Fall:

These, and many other films are available for purchase through our LivingGreenKRV Amazon.com store:

• Age of Stupid DVD
• Fuel DVD
• Tapped DVD
• What Would Jesus Buy? DVD
  Which we plan to show in conjunction with the First Baptist Church of Kernville & Kernville United Methodist Church followed by a panel discussion moderated by former KRVR president Chuck White, a retired minister.

We get small share of your purchase & you don't spend a dime over the regular Amazon.com discounted prize for films, books (and other things) available through our store.

IF you have suggestions of films we should consider showing (full length and short subjects), e-mail Katie Olivares, chair or post to Green FilmFest.

Green Film Festival MISSION:

"To provide free access to fresh and diverse environmental films
that highlight urgent contemporary issues
and offer accessible solutions."

“We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.”

—Mary Catherine Bateson, writer, cultural anthropologist, daughter of Margaret Mead & Gregory Bateson

Our Dream: To elevate our Film Festival to become one like the excellent Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival in Nevada City, California.

We make most of the films we show available to Kern Valley after-school programs.

And once a year, we donate most of the DVDs to the Kern County Library, so that anyone with a library card can view them anywhere throughout Kern County.

Kern County Librarian Diane Duquette accepting 2009 Green Films from Jenny Hanly & Richard Rowe while KRV branch librarian Peggy Hickey watches.

The Kern County Library is one of our participating organizations and is already planning Living Green events for March 2011.

Check the Kern County Library's informative Living Green page from time to time.