ENVIRONMENTAL Poem: Today The World Is Cold and Ethereal, by Arabella Wong
https://youtu.be/YiHj1QUsyP8 Performed by Val Cole — POEM: Today the world is cold and ethereal under a white curtain of snow that seems to laugh in a gentle, aloof voice, you don’t know The mist twirls and slinks above the water like a ghost of the frozen spray It is a wonder that anything so warm,…
LIFE Poem: Gray, by Luke Paranjpe
https://youtu.be/az1ugojJF-A Peformed by Val Cole POEM: Gray is my favorite color, So unbelievably pristine, So much emotion behind its blank facade, A limbo between white and black, Between love and pain, Between joy and sadness. Gray is balance. The color so often seen as plain or boring, That some people call the color without life,…
LIFE Poem: Sticks and Stones, by Ricky Jude Barker
https://youtu.be/3OYYUmqOke4 Peformed by Val Cole
HIGHLIGHTS: February 2026 ENVIRONMENTAL Film Festival
Showcase of the best films in the world today. Audience Awards (from FEEDBACK Festival): Best Feature Film: GUARDIANS OF YELLOWSTONE, THE YELLOWSTONE COUGAR PROJECT Best Short Film: SCALES – THE TIPPING POINT Best Micro-Short Film: WHAT WINE OWES TO THE NIGHT Best Direction: SOAP&SKIN – GIRL LOVES ME SCALES – THE TIPPING POINT, 40min., South…
NATURE Poetry Reading: Demoiselle, by James Ross Kelly
https://youtu.be/tA420TWmaHU Performed by Val Cole POEM: Demoiselle, by James Ross Kelly In the last part of that time of dusk when shadows meet the first departure of light. over three fingers of the river a Great Blue Heron performed an aerial pirouette. Down with wisped blue gray feathers braking air and into one side of…
NATURE Poetry Reading: Together on the shore, we ache for something, by Leah Fleischer
https://youtu.be/IvvLxXnw5wY Performed by Val Cole Together on the shore, we ache for something Together on the shore, we ache for something What? Is the question, like contests of Will One ever know the shape of two other Questions why? Why? Is one we ask at the gate Two questions, one answer is existence Do I…
HIGHLIGHTS: January 2026 ENVIRONMENTAL Film Festival
Showcase of the best films in the world today. Audience Awards:Best Feature Film: NEVER TOO LATEBest Direction: COSMIC RHAPSODY: A Symphony for our PlanetBest Micro-Short Film: THE SEA TURTLE’S TOMORROWBest Short Film: NATIVE TO THE KLAMATH Cosmic Rhapsody : A Symphony for our Planet, 5min., USADirected by susan Mey Lee Lim, Manu Martin, Christina Teenz…
ENVIRONMENTAL Short Story: Monarch for a Day, by Vanessa Watters
https://youtu.be/qbouuBH8JGs Performed by Val Cole
POETRY Reading: FOOTSTEPS, by J. Amber Griffin
https://youtu.be/aNBAdZFmzqM Performed by Val Cole —- POEM: FOOTSTEPS, by J. Amber Griffin Footsteps beneath the branches lead to a descension into deepness A haze of heaviness clears revealing contemplative consciousness Sensations of fervor writing the beginning of the story Noting the colors, textures, shapes inviting all of us are welcomed Curiosity and admiration adorning the…
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