Boulder Environmental Nature Outdoors Film Festival 2026: Opening Night Reception & Film
July 16 @ 5:30 pm
$23 – $82.50
RECEPTION + FILM TICKETS
FILM ONLY TICKETS
Thursday, July 16 — 5:30PM to 9:00PM
Start at the Hilton Garden Inn and End at the Dairy Arts Center
Reception at Hilton Garden Inn Boulder on Canyon. Outdoor Courtyard
Buffet, Passed Appetizers, & Libations (cocktails, wine, beer, or soft drink).
Live Music by The Atom Collective, a jazz band making people happy on Colorado’s front range since 2019.
Kyle Banker at Piano, Tobin Munsat on Drums, Adisa Nickerson on Trumpet, & Todd Van Selus on Bass. Click here for short clip
Film at 7:30PM at Dairy Arts Center — THE KEEPER
We suggest you park free at the DAC and walk 2 blocks to the Garden Inn
Opening Night Film – THE KEEPER with Director Jon Bowermaster and Cindy Medina, Colorado WaterKeepers
Dairy Arts Center — Gordon Gamm Theater
Thursday Opener at 7:30 pm
Cantankerous, charismatic and passionately committed, this river keeper — John Lipscomb — reflects on his 25 years patrolling the Hudson River, traveling more than 80,000 miles, by wooden boat.
Like rivers around the world, the Hudson — America’s First River and the Birthplace of the American Environmental Movement — boomed as a growing human population used it for transportation, sustenance and for many years a dumping ground.
The river paid a price for all this use and abuse, struggling against its share of contamination. For the past nearly three decades the river’s poet laureate and literal “eyes on the river,” Captain John, has been at the forefront of each of those fights, taking on industrial and human pollution, suffering the losses and celebrating victories.
While he has had successes on the Hudson, committing a life to protecting a river is a never- ending fight. Today he is one of more than 300 “keepers” around the globe, looking out for their respective rivers.
Directed by Jon Bowermaster
Runtime: 80 minutes