Ellen keynote precedes annual Raptor showcase at Bridger t’s back! The annual Bridger Tropical regions are famous for being Unfortunately, traditional shade manage- people of all ages. A highlight every year, Raptor Festival returns for its biodiversity hotspots, but they also face ment has given way to intensive “sun Saturday will feature an Oktober Fest event annual event, Friday through widespread deforestation, land degradation, coffee” monocultures. In her talk, Dr. from 3–6pm with live music, food, and beer Sunday, October 5th–7th. Events are and poverty. As such, there is urgent need Rodewald will discuss how shade-coffee and in the Jim Bridger Lodge. Get the full FREE and open to the public. to identify creative ways to sustain biodiver- other agroforestry practices can support schedule of weekend events at Raptor Fest centers on the largest sity, protect ecosystem services, and support bird conservation, healthy ecosystems, and www.bridgerraptorfest.org. Skiers and known Golden Eagle migration in human health and well-being. Shade-grown human communities in Latin America. snowboarders, please note: Bridger Bowl’s the United States. A raptor migra- coffee farms are well-suited to simultane- Rodewald is the Garvin Professor and Season Pass Sale will unfold on Saturday and tion count takes place every fall at the top ously meet economic, social, and ecological Senior Director of Conservation Science at Sunday from 10am–3pm each day in of the Ridge. needs. When coffee is grown under trees, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the Saddle Peak Lodge during the festival. The weekend festival will be preceded farms can supply a variety of products (e.g., Department of Natural Resources at Lesson program sign-ups and rental fittings Iby a kick-off keynote presentation by coffee, fruits, firewood, lumber, and Cornell University. She directs an interdis- will also be offered. speaker Amanda Rodewald entitled medicines), while at the same time provide ciplinary, international research program in The Bridger Raptor Festival is “Coffee, Communities & Conservation: How Your forest cover, support biodiversity, and ecological and sustainability sciences that sponsored by GCC and Bridger Bowl. It is Cup Can Make a Difference.” The event will reduce erosion and chemical use compared seeks to identify conservation strategies that hosted by the Sacajawea Audubon Society, take place at The Ellen Theatre on Friday to other intensive agricultural systems. support both people and the environment. Museum of the Rockies, the Bridger Bowl evening, Oct. 5th beginning at 6:30pm in Perhaps no other group better highlights Following the Friday night presentation, Foundation, Custer Gallatin National Downtown Bozeman. Sponsored by the positive role that shade-coffee can play Raptor Festival activities will include two Forest, the Montana Raptor Conservation Yellowstone Forever, there is no charge for in conservation than Neotropical Migratory days of live bird talks, nature walks, educa- Center, Montana Outdoor Science School, admission. Birds, which heavily use shade-coffee farms. tional programs, and entertainment for Yellowstone Forever, and Yellowstone Contents Community . .2A ARTs . .3A Community Calendar .4-5A Theatre . .6A Film . .7A Community . .8A EcoZone . .1-3B Bi$Zone . .4B RollingZone . .C EndZone . .D The Fossils Laney Lou & The Bird Dogs The Ahn Trio Chico Hot Springs The Attic - Lv Rialto Bobcat Schedule . .2-3D October 5th & 6th October 5th • 7:30pm October 14th • 7pm ­Page 2a­•­The BoZone •­ocToBer 1,­2018 ‘Life of Galileo’: an epic theater battle of science & reason vs. fear Just 18 months ago in Bozeman, company’s production of the play Over the course of the play’s 14 said. “Science vs. religion, reason vs. in the audience can finally accept hundreds of people spent a sunny opens at the Museum of the Rockies artfully structured scenes, an already emotion, personal vs. political that one,” she added. afternoon walking across town as on Friday, October 12th. famous Galileo engages in a Life of Galileo is part of the March for Science, billed Whether it be climate change, brutal struggle for freedom from the first play in as an event to “encourage the free evolution, immunization, or even authoritarian dogma. Unable to Bozeman Actors exchange of scientific knowledge.” the shape of the Earth amid a resist an appetite for scientific Theatre’s 2018-19 Among the crowd, one young resurgence of flat Earth societies, investigation, yet afraid of the season, its 10th, woman held up an immaculately scientific evidence and a “sooner Church’s grave threats, Galileo dedicated to its late printed sign that read, “Facts are or later” acceptance haven’t publicly recants but continues to co-founder Dee stubborn things.” completely embraced in our society, work in secrecy. In the Bozeman Dee Van Zyl, who In Life of Galileo, the 20th- Carpenter said. Actors Theatre production, a cast passed away earlier century masterpiece by playwright And yet, facts are stubborn of seven plays more than a dozen this year. The Bertolt Brecht, the famous things. characters, each espousing play features Renaissance scientist is obsessed with “Brecht first wrote this play as a arguments with overtones of life actors Aaron the view of the heavens by telescope reaction to Nazi oppression in his or death, heaven or hell. Scheurr, Alex – the first ever – and what it means native Germany, and then revised it This particular presentation of Miller, Colton for a 2,000-year-old concept of during the hysteria of the Red Scare the play in the Museum of the Swibold, Emily the universe with the Earth at its in America,” Carpenter said. “Now Rockies, with a multimedia Jones, Hugh center. Galileo believes everyone, look where we are today, when black display of sight and sound and Burroughs, Kalen including the all-powerful Church, is white and up is down and fear of unique casting, would’ve pleased Watson, and will understand that facts are facts. the truth is rampant. We’re holding Brecht himself, said Gretchen Sydney Madill. “I believe in the human race,” marches for science. Even 80 years Minton of MSU’s Department of Shows in the Hager Galileo says. “If anybody were to after Brecht first wrote it, this play is English. Minton, the production’s Auditorium at the drop a stone and tell them that it still so relevant to our own time. It dramaturg, explained that Brecht Museum of the didn’t fall, do you think they would won’t go away.” was a founder of the “epic Rockies will run keep quiet? The evidence of your It’s no coincidence that Bozeman theater” movement in which a play motivations, theory vs. practice, the October 12th–14th and 19th–21st, own eyes is a very seductive thing. Actors Theatre will stage the play in strives not for realism in story, set, state vs. the individual. We have to beginning at 7:30pm on Fridays and Sooner or later everyone must a museum dedicated to science, and props, but instead presents consider hard questions about these Saturdays and 2pm on Sundays. succumb to it.” Carpenter said. And to further loosely connected scenes of opposing forces, but there certainly Tickets are $20 or $10 for students Not in Galileo’s lifetime. promote the exchange of ideas, on- argumentation and analysis. aren’t any easy answers.” (with ID) and are available in And in the 400 years since the stage conversations with Montana “Brecht loved to think Except, perhaps, for the stubborn advance at www.bozemanac- Church silenced Galileo, it’s clear State University scholars will follow dialectically, so what we get in this fact that the Earth revolves around torstheatre.org/tickets or at that science, religion, and politics are each performance. “We hope to play is a series of binaries,” Minton the Sun. “I think just about everyone the door. • still grappling with questions that are raise questions and create discus- far from resolved in the eyes of sions after the audience leaves the many, said Gordon Carpenter, theater,” he added. “Why did these director of Life of Galileo for people think this way, and how have Bozeman Actors Theatre. 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