Connecting Nature, Culture, and Community
Re•Generation
September 13-14, 2024
The theme of this year’s festival is Re•Generation, which celebrates our communal
resilience, renewal, and restoration. All events are free and open to the public!
Friday, September 13, 2024
Re•Generation Opening Night
Time: 5-9pm
Location: Temple Art Lofts Gallery, 348 Virginia St., Vallejo
Celebrate the launch of Visions of the Wild’s 9th annual festival with an art exhibit, community photography project, and more!
Experience a juried exhibit on the theme of Re•Generation featuring award-winning artists from Solano County: Sarah Barsness, Helen Cates, Steve Davis, Lou Fitzsimmons, Deanna Forbes, Diana Krevsky, Larryian-Marie, Carol Levin, Jeanne Lorenz, Alex LaRoche, Sally Mack, Penny Olson, Susan Schneider, and Chris Thorson.
Explore a striking journey through time with our community photography project, featuring contributions from Solano County residents capturing the evolving beauty and changes in the natural and human-made landscapes, homes, and businesses over the decades.
Participate in art activities! Paint a community mural (we provide the outline, you fill in the color) and decorate a mare sculpture with “plarn” and learn about reuse and recycling!
Saturday, September 14, 2024
Family Discovery Zone
Time: 10am-1pm
Location: Vallejo Farmers Market, 332 Georgia St., Vallejo
Bring the whole family and learn about local wildlife, how to grow your own food, and more. Bay Area Cinema, a free pop-up microcinema, will be presenting How Water Makes Climate on the hour and every half hour. Other Family Discovery Zone participants include: American Canyon High School, Cal Maritime, Camp Fire Golden Empire, Friends of Loma Vista Farm, Greater Vallejo Recreation District, International Bird Rescue, Solano County Library, Solano Land Trust, U.S. Forest Service, Vallejo City Unified School District Visual and Performing Arts, AstroBotanicals, Vallejo Poet Laureates, and Vallejo Watershed Alliance.
Wild & Scenic Wild Child Film Selections
Time: 1-3pm
Location: Riverbank, 332 Georgia St., Vallejo
Curated for families, this selection of short films (3- to 15-minutes each) centers the younger generation, teaching them about ecosystems and how young people can make a difference in the world. Films: Danny Macaskill: Do a Wheelie, Brave Girl, JoJo - A Toad Musical, Mel Fell, Biopixels, Valley of the Turkeys, Up and At ‘Em, Flowing - My Dream of More Freedom, Pond, Kind of Fishy, Return of the Manatees, Turtle Trackers, Bridging Fragments, and You Are Not Small.
Re•Generation Vallejo Then & Now Panel/Art Exhibit
Time: 11am-2pm
Location: Temple Art Lofts Gallery, 348 Virginia St., Vallejo
Join us for a panel on Vallejo Then & Now with Marian Argonza Hopwood, Marisela Barbosa, and Sharon McGriff-Payne, moderated by Brendan Riley. The panel will be followed by readings by 2024 Vallejo poets laureate Jacalyn Eyvonne and Kathleen Herrmann.
The panel takes place against the backdrop of a curated art exhibit featuring Solano County artists whose work speak to our theme of Re•Generation.
Outdoor Expo
Time: 10am-1pm
Location: Virginia St. between Marin and Sacramento, Vallejo
Connect to the outdoors with Solano County community groups! Confirmed groups at press time include Bike Vallejo, Monarch Milkweed Project, Our Children's Earth, Safe Routes to Schools, Sustainable Solano, Vallejo Citizen Air Monitoring Network, Vallejo People’s Garden, and Vallejo Run Club.
Wild & Scenic Film Festival On Tour
Time: 7pm
Location: Vallejo Naval & Historical Museum, 734 Marin St., Vallejo
Join us for a selection of short films from the prestigious Wild & Scenic Film Festival: Toxic Art; Mount St. Helens: A Fire Within; Groundwork: A Family Journey into Regenerative Cotton; African Voices for Africa's Forests - Gender, Indigenous Rights, and Restoration; School of Fish, Dante’s Paradise; and Paddle Tribal Waters.
This year’s films combine stellar filmmaking, beautiful cinematography, and first-rate storytelling to inform, inspire and ignite solutions and possibilities to restore the earth and human communities while creating a positive future for the next generation.