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area, and she encouraged aspiring playwrights from the first festival to create works that talked about peaceful conflict resolution. The festival was a hit and last year the theme was ecological. “We invited people to submit plays that addressed our current environmental problems. We had plays coming in from other countries. A writer from Canada sent us a piece about the honeybee population disappearing,” she said. Clark’s goal is to bring social issues into the community spotlight to address problems in an entertaining way that captures a person’s interest and inspires dialogue. She believes Pine Mountain Club is the perfect backdrop to inspire social change as it pertains to the environment and our own human relations, “The Chumash believe that Mt. Pinos is the point where the relationships between human kind, nature, the gods and the heavens are brought into balance.”
The Hollywood Hills are a far cry from Kern County, but the artists that fuel the film industry just can’t seem to stay away from our side of the Grapevine. Case in point: Frazier Park’s Michelle Nosco. Nosco is an artist and community activist who first heard about Frazier Park while working on a film with scenes shot at The Tait Ranch. She visited the town and realized it was a haven for a small group of Hollywood hipsters who were looking to live close enough to the industry to work, but far enough to truly escape at the end of the day. “A lot of actors and filmmakers live up here and commute to Hollywood. It’s funny, on your way home when you hit Castaic, you feel
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Michelle Nosco, Frazier Park
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Bakersfield Life
August 2011