{"id":280427,"date":"2026-04-22T15:53:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/280427\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T15:53:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:53:18","slug":"the-wild-scenic-film-festival-in-berkeley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/280427\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8216;Wild &#038; Scenic Film Festival&#8217; in Berkeley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/tag\/events\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Earth Day<\/a>, is there a more appropriate way to celebrate than hanging out with endangered red wolves, a chef who harvests edible plants and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2024\/05\/14\/when-bees-swarm-in-the-bay-area-who-you-gonna-call-these-heroes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">imperiled honeybees<\/a>? It\u2019s all possible (in virtual form) at the Wild &amp; Scenic Film Festival, showing April 25 at Berkeley\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/browercenter.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">David Brower Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dubbed an event that\u2019s \u201cby activists for activists,\u201d the nationally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/tag\/film\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">touring festival<\/a> raises money for local chapters of the Citizens\u2019 Climate Lobby. There are six films in the 2026 lineup, among them the tale of a Brooklyn resident who swapped \u201cthe weight of a gun\u201d for Everglades wildlife photography, and who is now a National Geographic Explorer.<\/p>\n<p>Other entries follow an expert forager and fermenter in Southern California, adaptive mountain bikers challenging their disabilities in Vermont and native bees in California, which are seeing their populations drastically dwindle.<\/p>\n<p>Before the main event, running from 2-5 p.m., the center is holding a free Home Electrification Fair. Drop in early if you\u2019d like to know what financial incentives are available to make your abode more carbon-neutral.<\/p>\n<p>Details: Fest takes place 7-10 p.m. April 25 (doors open at 6:30 p.m.) at 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley; $25 general admission, with donations encouraged, <a href=\"https:\/\/cclalameda.org\/wsff-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">cclalameda.org\/wsff-2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For Earth Day, is there a more appropriate way to celebrate than hanging out with endangered red wolves,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[120738,143,145,144],"class_list":["post-280427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-bay-area-what-to-do-for-earth-day-2026-when-april-25-berkeley-wild-scenic-film-festival-climate-action-denial-skeptic-trump-presidio-honeybees-california","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}