Information: BOOKING.COM is the European market leader in online hotel reservations, with more than 15 million unique visitors per month. We offer hotel rooms through the Internet to both leisure and business travellers worldwide. www.booking.com is translated into 17 different languages.
Pow Wow 08: MUTUAL REQ. with Jean-Charles. Started company in 1996; priceline.com is their parent company but they are operated separately. They are the #1 booking agent in Europe. Have offices in USA; feature 2000 hotels in USA but need more, demand is high. Work on a 12% commission on realized bookings, if no bookings properties still get free marketing exposure. Translate info on properties into 17 languages. Would like the CVB's to circulate info on company to their members; Booking.com also does sales seminars and are available to come to MT to present if there is enough interest.
24 Jul 2008 by Missoula CVB
Wild In Focus
Welcome from the Executive Director!
With this premier issue, we're proud to announce the debut of Wild in Focus, our first online newsletter and now the official newsletter of the International Wildlife Media Center & Film Festival. Our goal --- to keep you current on our two annual film festivals - IWFF and Montana CINE as well as the many events going on throughout the year at our international headquarters at the Roxy Theater.
We'll feature news from the film and television industries as well as updates from the wildlife, conservation and science fields. Wild In Focus will also keep you up to date on our year round workshops, special programs and screening events as well as our newly established Montana Film Academy, along with industry job postings as they become available and so much more! Plus, don't forget to send us your "news;" we'd love to hear from you!
Warmest Regards, Janet Rose Executive Director/Festival Director
One Night Only Benefit Concert for IWFF/MC On August 21, 2008 at the Wilma Theater, Michael Martin Murphey ("Wildfire"), will perform "Up Close & Personal" with Special Guest Rob Quist and Opening Act Shane Clouse for the International Wildlife Film Festival & Media Center.
Tickets range from $20 and up and are available online at www.wildlifefilms.org. VIP Tickets for $125 include a Meet & Mingle Reception of wine & appetizers before the show with a chance to meet the artists! Call (406) 728-9380 to learn more or to purchase tickets.
Thanks to our Sponsors: The Missoulian, Eagle 93, Holiday Inn and Quality Supply!
News from the International Wildlife Film Festival A very special thank you to the thousands of supporters of the 31st International Wildlife Film Festival held in Missoula in May! The dates for the 32nd IWFF are May 9-16, 2009. The theme for IWFF 2009 is Global Vision: Wild In Focus.
The historic Roxy Theater is one of the first theaters in Montana to now showcase HD. Thanks Missoula for voting the Roxy as one of the Best Theaters in the Missoula Independent!
Our popular IWFF & CINE Tour program extends internationally every year. If you are interested in hosting the magic of IWFF or CINE in your town or for your organization, please contact (406) 728-9380 and learn more at www.wildlifefilms.org. Just some of our 2008 Tour sites include: Unity, Maine Denver, Colorado
Taipei, Taiwan Erie, Pennsylvania Ukiah, California
Edmonds, Washington
News from the Montana Film Academy $2 Tuesdays Summer Matinees at the Roxy! Wildlife films for families and young audiences on July 29, August 5, 12, and 19 at noon. Only $2 each!
Summer 2008 Filmmaking Workshops in session! Limited spaces for ages 10-17 available. Learn more at www.wildlifefilms.org.
Sponsored Filmmaking Workshop Complete A special thank you to our sponsors of an inaugural sponsored workshop for six teenage students who produced a professisonal fly fishing film as part of the Extravanganza 2008 supported and made possibly by Ron & Kathy Clausen. "Journey to the Soul" will now premier at the Roxy Theater in September.
September 12 Premier Night at the Roxy Theater Free & Open to the Public. All Summer 2008 Films will be showcased with students, friends, families, and participating agencies. Films begin at 6:30 pm.
Notes from the Industry at large... In coming issues we'll also feature news updates from the film and television industries as well as wildlife, conservation and science fields. If you have something newsworthy or an item that you think your colleagues would be interested in learning more about, please send them to our attention at iwff@wildlifefilms.org and mark it attention: Wild In Focus. News from Montana CINE International Film Festival --- The Last Best Film Fest
5th Anniversary Cultural & Environmental Film Festival October 6-12, 2008 at the Roxy Theater Grand Re-Opening of the restored historic Roxy Theater! Learn more at www.wildlifefilms.org
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21 Jul 2008 by Missoula CVB
Missoula Cultural Council Calendar of Events
News and Events for the week of July 21, 2008 In Missoula...
Garden City Harvest and The Clay Studio of Missoula present their annual Field to Plate Dinner, Sunday, July 27 at the PEAS Farm. Biga Pizza Chef Bob Marshall, with the assistance of Doug Smith of The Good Food Store, is cooking up an evening of culinary delight using local foods. This elegant event is run in partnership with the wonderful folks at The Clay Studio who will provide ceramic plates and cups that event patrons may keep at the end of the evening. For more information and to request an invitation, call 523-FOOD or visit Clay Studio of Missoula or Garden City Harvest.
Former Missoulian, Moira Keefe, presents Life with a Teenager: I'm Having a Hot Flashback, a comedy about a former teenage burnout who becomes a suburban mom raising a daughter nothing like herself. Fri, July 25, 8:00 pm at the Crystal Theater. Tickets are $15 at door. Call 829-0782 for more information.
Rocky Mountain Ballet Theater has returned from their very successful diplomatic tour of China and will offer a summer intensive workshop for intermediate and advanced dancers August 4-8 and 11-15 from 9 :30 am until 4 :30 pm every day . Ballet, pointe, jazz and hip hop, kickline, yoga, ballroom and repertory classes . $300 per week tuition. It is also the beginning of our 10th anniversary celebration season here in Missoula. We will begin the creation of new work to premiere in Missoula in 2008 and 2009 during the workshop! RMBT has plans to return to china in 2010 for another diplomatic tour performing at the world expo in Shanghai. Tours to Russia, Bahrain, Austria and Italy are also planned for future years. Our program can also be valuable for young people interested in pursuing a career in Diplomacy. Call 406-549-5155 or visit www.rmbt.org.
The Missoula Downtown Association presents Out to Lunch this week featuring Salsa Loca and Zeppo MT on Wednesday from 11:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m.; and on Thursday evening from 5:30-8:30 p.m. Downtown Tonight features Full Grown Men. Call 543-4238.
Missoula City Band performs each Wednesday evening through the summer in Bonner Park at 8:00 p.m. Special Performance on July 23 is Local Vocal Duo Karen Callen & Ken Colson. Call 728-2400 ext 7041.
Amy Martin and the Missoula Coyote Choir open for Ani DiFranco, Thursday, July 24, at 8 PM, at the Wilma Theater. www.thewilma.com $40/$36 advance. Tickets for this event are available at Rockin' Rudy's and online at PorterhouseProductions.com.
Howling for Humanity: Kids' eco-friendly Coyote Choir opens for Ani DiFranco Missoula Independent, 7/17/08
When Bryony Schwan, executive director of The Biomimicry Institute (TBI), told local folk singer Amy Martin about her organization's goal to educate young people about biomimicry, a light went on in Martin's head. . . Within a year, she had assembled a chorus of young Missoulians ages 8-10, recorded a full-length album with them about biomimicry, and accepted an offer on behalf of the choir-who call themselves the Missoula Coyote Choir-to open for political folk singer Ani DiFranco at the Wilma Theater.
Catch the Reading Bug this summer with Missoula Public Library's Family Reading Program. Take part in the library's summer program and celebrate insects, spiders and creepy-crawlies with books, activities, and special events for all ages. Children entering grades 1 and older can creep over to the library for these special events on Tuesday afternoons at 2:00 p.m. Call 721-BOOK (2665).
Bozeman/Missoula Arts Space is accepting submissions for a One Act Festival that will be held in Spring of 2009 in Missoula, Montana. There are no special criteria for submission. The entry fee is only $15. For more information contact us at www.bozemanartsspace.com or call 406-580-2982.
Three host families needed! The Japan America Student Conference is being held at the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center in the UM Campus this August 8-10. In our previous JASCs, the delegates have constantly voiced that the host family program was one of the most memorable and enriching experiences of the Conference We are looking for 32 families in Missoula to each host 2 students or more. At this moment, we only need 3 more host families. The basic responsibilities of a host family will include:
picking up the students at the University of Montana on August 8th providing meals for two nights and two days dropping off the students at the University of Montana on August 10th To become a host family, contact Hidemi Tanaka at 713.858.7897 or htanaka.jasc60@gmail.com
Abigail Washburn & The Sparrow Quartet featuring Bela Fleck with Casey Driessen and Ben Sollee at the Wilma Theater,Tuesday, July 29th at 8PM (7 PM doors) $25 Adv $28 DOS. Watch Video. Tickets for this event are available at Rockin' Rudy's and online at PorterhouseProductions.com.
For more information about arts events in the Missoula area, visit www.missoulacultural.org Talk Missoula
Brooklyn Museum hosts visitor-curated exhibit Is the collective judgment of all visitors to a major art museum better than that of the experts with Ph.D.s, the curators or the professional critics? Chime in.
First Night 2009
First Night Missoula 2009 Artist Selection is complete. MCC wishes to thank our wonderful First Night selection panels for their hard work in reviewing nearly 100 applications for our 15th Anniversary New Year's Eve celebration. This year's panels included: John Arvish, Tom Bensen, Sara Bruya, Darko Butorac, Terry Conrad, Pom Fountain, Steve Robertson, Dan Stromme and Andy Wells.
First Night applicants will receive notification by mail before the end of August.
CALL FOR ARTWORK MCC invites Missoula's community of visual artists and designers to submit proposals for the 15th Anniversary First Night Missoula button, poster and program cover artwork. Designs should include the words "First Night® Missoula 2009" and "15th Anniversary."
The deadline for ARTWORK proposals is August 31st, 2008.
Missoula Public Library will show “Choking Man,” an American film, on Friday, Aug. 8, at 7 p.m. as part of its World-Wide Cinema series. The film, about a shy Ecuadorian dishwasher in New York, is set in the most culturally diverse neighborhood in the world and captures the feeling of claustrophobia and almost literal asphyxiation newcomers to America experience. Stay after the feature for the short film, “The Boy with No Name.”
World-Wide Cinema comes to the library every second Friday of the month. Film screenings are free and open to the public, and are intended for the mature audience due to adult themes, language and sexual content. Doors at the lower level open at 6:45 p.m.
If anyone attending the movie needs special assistance, please provide advance notice by calling 721-BOOK (2665). For a complete listing of library events, visit the library’s website at www.missoulapubliclibrary.org or call 721-2665.
21 Jul 2008 by Missoula CVB
New book club for kids at library
Children can join in a chat about “A Wrinkle in Time,” by Madeleine L’Engle at Missoula Public Library’s new Kids Book Club on Thursday, Aug. 7, at 2 p.m. Copies of the book can be picked up at the Children’s Desk. You must be at least 10 years old to participate. Snacks provided.
For more information on the Kids Book Club and other children’s events at the library, visit our webpage at www.missoulapubliclibrary.org or call 721-2665. If anyone attending the meeting needs special assistance, please provide advance notice by calling 721-BOOK (2665).
21 Jul 2008 by Missoula CVB
Learn to write & draw comics at the library
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a comic book! Have you always wanted to learn the basics of putting together a comic book? Kids can join publisher Darren G. Davis in a workshop designed to teach everything from creating characters to scripting, storyboarding and lettering at Missoula Public Library on Friday, Aug. 8. Ages 10-12 will meet with Davis for a morning workshop from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.; then ages 13-18 get their turn from 2-5 p.m. Davis has worked for DC Comics and has a movie deal with Paramount Pictures, so this is an event you won’t want to miss. This is not a how-to-draw course, but a creative class teaching the basics of comic books.
For more information, visit www.missoulapubliclibrary.org. If anyone attending the program needs special assistance, please provide advance notice by calling 721-BOOK (2665).
21 Jul 2008 by Missoula CVB
Teen Readers Club at Library
What are you reading? Teens ages 13-18, share what you’re reading and get some good recommendations, too. Join Missoula Public Library’s teen Readers Club and always know what to read next. The Readers Club meets every Wednesday at 4 p.m. through Aug. 13.
Members of the Readers Club can talk about any book/magazine/webpage they’ve been reading lately – so get reading, and talking about it (even if you didn’t like it)! Free snacks. Can’t make every meeting this summer? That’s OK, come to what you can fit in.
If anyone attending the program needs special assistance, please provide advance notice by calling the library at 721-2665. The library is located at 301 East Main.
21 Jul 2008 by Missoula CVB
News from High Plains Films - July 20, 2008
LIBBY, MONTANA Nominated for National News & Documentary Emmy Award
LIBBY, MONTANA, which was broadcast nationally in 2007 on the PBS Series, POV/The American Documentary, has received a News & Documentary Emmy nomination in the category, "Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story -- Long Form." The nominees were announced on July 15 by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS). Four other television documentaries (including two more from POV) are nominated in the category. The News and Documentary Emmy Awards will be presented on Monday, Sept. 22 at a ceremony in Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, in New York's Time Warner Center.
P.O.V., public television's premier showcase for independent point-of-view films, received six total nominations in the 29th Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards. "P.O.V. celebrated its 20th season on PBS last year with a diverse slate of films by established and emerging filmmakers," said Simon Kilmurry, P.O.V.'s Executive Director. "From the struggles of refugees, immigrants and working Americans to stories of personal transformations, the nominated films introduce us to people whose lives, we hope, will enrich our own."
About LIBBY, MONTANA: Produced, Directed & Edited by Drury Gunn Carr & Doug Hawes-Davis
Nestled below the rugged peaks of the Northern Rockies in Montana's iconic a representation of America's "purple mountain majesties" as one can find--lies the worst case of community-wide exposure to a toxic substance in U.S. history. In the small town of Libby, many hundreds of people are sick or have already died from asbestos exposure. Libby, Montana takes a long working day's journey into a blue-collar community, and finds a different reality--one where the American Dream exacts a terrible price.
"If the political pressure to prosecute Grace's executives to the full extent of the law persists, it will be due in part to this deeply moving film. At its root is the recognition that LIBBY, MONTANA isn't a red-state or blue-state story. It is a story about American democracy and American capitalism, and the battle that must constantly be waged to keep the latter from consuming the former." San Antonio Current
"As the patient, perceptive LIBBY, MONTANA opens, the town seems set off in a nostalgic haze, a natural splendor indicated by snowy vistas, gamboling dogs, and big blue skies. Though it tracks a horrific and extended saga, LIBBY, MONTANA maintains a sense of intimacy... with focus on diurnal details and conceptual ambiguities, probing questions rather than reductionist oppositions of good and evil." PopMatters.com
"Equal parts mystery, horror film, black comedy, corporate indictment and human tragedy Libby, Montana is expertly compiled and genuinely compassionate when addressing the people involved. The film pulsates with urgency and commitment, and manages splendidly without the abrasive finger-pointing and knee-jerk aggression that has marred reportage in our age of so-called reality television." flickhead.com
Contact: Cynthia Lopez, Cathy Fisher or Karen Reynolds at P.O.V.: 212-989-7425, clopez@pov.org, cfisher@pov.org or kreynolds@pov.org for interviews with the filmmakers and more information about the issues explored in their films.
21 Jul 2008 by Missoula CVB
Montana Natural History Center
Saturday Discovery Day – Beneficial Insects Join naturalist and teacher Byron Weber aka The Bug Man for an up close look at the amazing world of insects. Learn fascinating facts about how these tiny, abundant creatures are beneficial to humans and other animals. Fun activity for families!
Date: Saturday, July 26th Time: 10am – 12 pm Target Age: All (Children under 18 need to be accompanied by an adult) Cost: $10 MNHC members, $15 non-members and family rates are available. Meet at MNHC, 120 Hickory St., Missoula, MT Space is limited, registration required – call 327-0405. OPI credits available.
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