{"id":45116,"date":"2021-08-19T23:11:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T05:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/durango-devo-film-fest-to-show-a-bikers-ballad\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:23:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:23:36","slug":"durango-devo-film-fest-to-show-a-bikers-ballad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/durango-devo-film-fest-to-show-a-bikers-ballad\/","title":{"rendered":"Durango Devo Film Fest to show \u2018A Biker\u2019s Ballad\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=8c94947f-b1e9-452d-b94e-16b052de93ce&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" alt=\"After a winter off, Durango Devo athletes are eager to get back to work with their coaches, but Durango Devo has had to cancel spring programming until at least May 10. Still, Devo is there for its community and still needs support, too.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">After a winter off, Durango Devo athletes are eager to get back to work with their coaches, but Durango Devo has had to cancel spring programming until at least May 10. Still, Devo is there for its community and still needs support, too.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of Grady James<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The Durango Devo Film Fest will take place Aug. 27 at the Durango Powerhouse Science Museum, 1333 Camino Del Rio. The event is the annual fundraiser for local mountain bike teams from Animas High School and Durango High School.<\/p>\n<p>There will be two showings on Friday. The matinee will feature local films only, which were submitted by Devo\u2019s own riders and alumni, local artists and filmmakers, as well as renowned production houses.<\/p>\n<p>The main showing of the film fest will include the local films and also feature a premier of Matchstick Productions\u2019 \u201cA Biker\u2019s Ballad.\u201d Matchstick has long been known for its ski movies, but \u201cA Biker\u2019s Ballad\u201d is its first foray into mountain biking films.<\/p>\n<p>Devo will also be raffling off over $1,000 in prizes from local sponsors, including Osprey Packs and Purgatory Resort.<\/p>\n<p>Doors open for the matinee at 4 p.m., and for the main showing at 5:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Food, drinks and ice cream will be available for purchase from Grassburger, Ska Brewing and Cream Bean Berry.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers are needed for the event. People can sign up to volunteer, get free admission and a drink voucher, at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.signupgenius.com\/go\/30e0448a5ae2ca6fd0-durango2\" id=\"link-5673f0fcd41d193387cb2d0281424ed0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.signupgenius.com\/go\/30e0448a5ae2ca6fd0-durango2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fewer than 40 tickets are left for the main showing. Tickets and more information are available at <a href=\"https:\/\/durangodevo.com\/film-fest\/\" id=\"link-c24a049a4db822f6ab05090b8689e71f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/durangodevo.com\/film-fest\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>fundraiser supports Durango and Animas high schools\u2019 mountain bike teams<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4125,977],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-45116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-durango-devo","tag-mountain-biking"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86358,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45116\/revisions\/86358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45116"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=45116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}