Maclean Festival

09/28/2024

Rosalyn LaPier is always a hit - thank you for delivering an incredible talk on TEK and the historic land management practices of Indigenous women.

09/28/2024

Amazing opening. Thank you Bill McKibben. Join us at all day today and tonight for the Black Ram Guitar Fest.

09/28/2024

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A memorable tradition. See you bright and early at ! 9:30 opening remarks followed by a day of great conversations and thought provoking presentations. Maclean Festival wraps at 5 and we welcome the Black Ram Guitar Fest! Doors at 7. Tickets here: https://logjampresents.com/event/black-ram-guitar-festival-62213/

09/27/2024

See the weekend’s schedule here:

https://www.macleanfootsteps.com/schedule

Join us as many of the leading authors of the natural world address the festival theme: Finding Our Place in Nature: The Power of Story and challenge us to rethink our relationship with the natural world.

In the words of Barry Lopez: “Everything is held together with stories, that is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion. Sometimes a person needs a story more than they need food to stay alive.”

This festival is dedicated to the award-winning nature writer Barry Lopez (1945-2000).

View our festival schedule and register today at macleanfootsteps.com!

09/27/2024

See you tonight!

View the paintings of award-winning artist John Potter and meet festival authors at the Maclean Festival cocktail reception, Friday, September 27, 6-8 p.m., at the Dana Gallery. Potter's painting, Home’s Embrace, is the signature image of the upcoming In the Footsteps of Norman Maclean Festival. Live music provided by the Black Ram Guitar. Tickets are $25 at the door and include one drink and heavy hors d'oeuvres.

09/27/2024

Tonight from 6-8 at the always welcoming Dana Gallery.

The theme of the three-day festival, Finding Our Place in Nature, The Power of Story, September 27-29, in Missoula, MT, examines man’s critical relationship to nature through literature, art, and music. Mingle with the authors and artists at a reception at Dana Gallery. Live music provided by the Black Ram Guitar. Tickets are $25 at the door and include one drink and heavy hors d'oeuvres.

09/26/2024

This September 28th, let’s gather in fellowship with The Montana Project for a weekend like no other – The Black Ram Guitar Festival. It’s more than just music; it’s a powerful movement to protect one of Montana’s most ancient and precious forests.

09/26/2024

The theme of the three-day festival, Finding Our Place in Nature, The Power of Story, September 27-29, in Missoula, MT, examines man’s critical relationship to nature through literature, art, and music. Mingle with the authors and artists at a reception at Dana Gallery. Live music provided by the Black Ram Guitar. Tickets are $25 at the door and include one drink and heavy hors d'oeuvres.

09/24/2024

“Montana is untamed, wild and natural,” claims our Visit Montana website, as it seeks to attract tourists to our state. It features full-color photographs of “wild” scenes with mountains, animals, plants, rivers and lakes. Yet each of these photographs is of Indigenous lands, used for thousands of years by Indigenous people. These photographs do not reflect the “untamed” natural world, but instead the exact opposite, places that Indigenous people have managed and cultivated in sustainable ways to continue to be utilized for generations.

09/23/2024

For 100 years, Milltown Dam blocked the confluence of the Clark Fork and Blackfoot Rivers near Missoula, trapping toxic sediments that washed down from mines in Butte and contaminating local drinking water wells. Now, the dam is out, the mining waste is gone, fish can swim back upstream, and two mighty rivers flow free once more.

09/21/2024

Happening next weekend is The 5th Annual Norman Maclean Literary Festival!

This 3 day event features esteemed author, environmentalist, and journalist Bill McKibben, former ENST professor Roslyn LaPier, author Liz Carlisle, the youth plaintiffs from Held v. State of Montana, and many more!

The event is free but register today at macleanfootsteps.com!