In addition to the 14 FREE workshops at the Activist Centers, check out these five great workshops below.

California’s Epicenter
Saturday @ 10:10am
Native American Retrospective, 106 Union Street
Tribal leaders from throughout the region reflect on calamity, recognition, and cultural resurgence seven generations after the “Gold Rush” turned Sierra mountains, rivers and lifeways upside down. MUST HAVE WEEKEND PASS OR SAT MON/AFT PASS

Intro to Digital Filmmaking - Youth Workshop
Saturday @ 1pm-2:30pm
Downstairs, Vets Hall, 415 N. Pine St.
Taught by Synergia Learning Ventures film crew & staff
In our digital world, it seems everyone is a filmmaker. But filmmaking is far more than pointing your IPhone at a subject and pushing the record button. Your movies can be powerful and effective, if you use a few key elements. This workshop will cover: the story, the equipment, and the resources to get you started. Combined with a little practice and the most powerful tool of all–the voice of youth–you can tell stories that influence change and actually make a difference. Recommended for age 12 and up, and also for teachers and youth leaders.
FREE TO THE PUBLIC

Organic Farming Retrospective
Saturday @ 2pm-3pm
A.P.P.L.E. Center, 412 Commercial St.
An interview with the legendary Amigo Bob
Join local farmer, Seth Rosmarin, as he interviews Amigo Bob, an internationally recognized pioneer in the modern organic farming revolution. Together they will look back over 40 years of activism and social change, while inspiring you to be a part of the paradigm shift to a sustainable food system. Learn about co-op buying, supporting farmers, producing and preserving your own food, political activism and more. This will be an interesting discussion between the local godfather of organics and a young ‘greenhorn.’
FREE TO THE PUBLIC

Indigenous Displacement & Rebound
Saturday @ 2:50pm
Native American Retrospective, 106 Union Street
Within our bioregion there is a teaching that recognizes that as the salmon go, so do the people. Yet calling back the salmon to their ancestral waters of the Shasta/Northern Sierra region can take on surprising dimensions. Moderated by Bill Jacobson, co-founder of Calling Back the Salmon. With honored guests: Caleen Sisk-Franco, Spiritual Leader and Tribal Chief of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe, and Mark Franco, Headman of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe. MUST HAVE WEEKEND PASS OR SAT MON/AFT PASS

Shine Your Fierce Light - The Power of Spirit in Action
Sunday @ 1:30pm - 4pm
Shuniaa, 212 Church St.
Taught by filmmaker Velcrow Ripper
Spiritual activist and award-winning filmmaker Velcrow Ripper explores the power that is released when spirituality is combined with action. Featuring dynamic “engaged spirituality” practices and meditations, visualizations and exercises, the workshop will offer key tools to take action from a spiritual perspective. Learn how to integrate the head and the heart, “doing” and “being,” compassion and action, in order to be of the highest service both to yourself, and the world around you. Become part of “The Great Turning,” helping to make the shift from the industrial growth society, to the life-sustaining civilization. Discover your own Fierce Light, and let it loose on the world.

Velcrow’s film, Fierce Light will be screened before the workshop on Sunday at Shuniaa, 10am, with a gong meditation to follow.

Film included in festival weekend or Sunday pass      Workshop + Film  $29

PLEASE NOTE: You can purchase a special ticket for just the film and workshop for $29 online or at Shuniaa on Sunday. Otherwise, with a weekend pass or Sunday pass you can see JUST the film. Entrance into the workshop is a separate cost of $29 payable at Shuniaa on Sunday or online in advance.

Homegrown Revolution - The Path to Sustainable Living in the City
Sunday@12-1:30pm
City Hall, 317 Broad Street
Jules Dervaes is the founder of the urban homestead movement and subject of the documentary, HomeGrown (showing Saturday, 7:13pm in Nevada Theater and Sunday 3:53pm in Stone Hall, Miners Foundry). He will be presenting an informal discussion about his and his family's adventures in growing their own food (as much as 3 tons a year from 1/10 of an acre garden!), generating their own solar electricity, making their own biodiesel fuel from waste vegetable oil, and raising 'citified' farm animals. See the popular, award-winning short documentary, Homegrown Revolution (16 min), that was shown at Wild & Scenic last year and is currently part of the festival's national tour. And have the opportunity to interact with Mr. Dervaes and his three adult children, Justin, Anais and Jordanne, who have developed an impressive range of self-sufficient living skills on their urban homestead, Path to Freedom. Free to the public. Donations requested and appreciated. www.urbanhomestead.org

Dispatches From Copenhagen ... What Now?
Sunday @ 2-4pm 
City Hall, 317 Broad Street
Nevada City resident and host of KVMR’s Conversations, Michael Stone attended the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. Michael, along with festival filmmakers, Mark Terry (The Antarctica Challenge) and Lynne Cherry (Young Voices on Climate Change) who also attended, will share their experiences, and ask you the question - what happens now?
This is a free and open discussion (no festival pass needed).