BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:NingEventWidget-v1 VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Denver X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Denver BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2021996:Event:270984 DTSTAMP:20260508T122906Z SUMMARY:Film Premier of A Land Made from Water DESCRIPTION:New video celebrates Boulder’s ditches as vital infrastr ucture\n“Infrastructure” is a word that conjures up images of road s, electric wires, sewers and other human-built accoutrements underlyi ng the superstructure of buildings, houses, and businesses that consti tutes a community. But we don’t often think of the “natural” bea uty of a place as also having a human-built infrastructure. Boulder au thor and retired water manager Robert Crifasi would have us think more deeply about the beauty of the Lower Boulder Creek Valley, and the hu man-built infrastructure of that beauty – the valley’s system of i rrigation ditches.\nCrifasi wrote a book, A Land Made from Water, abou t that human-made infrastructure of the valley’s beauty – and also of a diversified set of healthy ecological systems on what had been c alled by early explorers “The Great American Desert.” \nNow Bould er filmmaker Len Aitken has made Crifasi’s book the basis for a half -hour video of the same name. The new film will be shown at the Dairy Arts Center Monday evening July 24, at 6:00- p.m., with Crifasi, Aitke n, and scriptwriter George Sibley present. \nMany Boulderites are not aware of the system of irrigation ditches that flow through city neig hborhoods. Yet there are many miles of ditches in the city serving far ms downstream and some serving the growing crop of Boulder “urban fa rmers” who supply the farmers' markets and CSAs (Community Supported Agriculture.) Other ditches flow into the city’s water treatment pl ants, providing around 30 percent of the drinking water. Raw water fro m the ditches irrigates many of the parks and all of the Open Space ar ound the city.\nCrifasi, in the book and on the film, points out that most of the estimated 650,000 trees in Boulder’s urban forest would not be here were it not for the ditches; instead the valley would look much like the Rocky Flats area just south of the city. He wonders, in the book, why the creators of the ditches back in the 19th century ch ose to call them by such a pedestrian name – why not ‘canals’ or a word comparable to the Spanish acequia, with its “mental connotat ions of villages having deep community roots that one sees across New Mexico.” \nLen Aitken's new film to be shown July 24, like Crifasi s book, celebrates the vital infrastructure of the Boulder Valley’ s “land made from water.”\n\n***\n\nFor more information visit htt ps://www.mytowncolorado.com/events/film-premier-of-a-land-made-from-wa ter DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20230724T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20230724T200000 CATEGORIES:film, premier LOCATION:Dairy Arts Center WEBSITE: URL: CONTACT: ORGANIZER;CN="Len Aitken":https://www.mytowncolorado.com/profile/LenAi tken ATTACH;FMTTYPE="image/jpeg": ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Len Aitk en":https://www.mytowncolorado.com/profile/LenAitken END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR