CONCERTS

The Cresta Alta Film Tour is engaging audiences throughout the US with arts councils, colleges, high schools and museums at events produced by The Risan Project. The 2025 tour features Risan Media's expedition-based climate change documentary film titled, Cresta Alta, that chronicles a journey to Alaska, Iceland, Chile and Peru to document glaciological research expeditions and sustainability. The screenings are followed by a Risan Studies Q&A with environmental filmmaker and socially-conscious musician, Todd Anders Johnson, who studied development issues at the University of Washington. With a foundational perspective that more sustainable policies are imperative and that there are effective renewable and sustainable options to employ regionally, nationally and globally, Todd has dedicated himself to the arts in creating entertaining and educational film, music and events.

As students across the nation face an uncertain future in educational opportunities with reduced funding resources paired with the deconstruction of environmental and climate science organizations, the Cresta Alta Film Tour is a timely forum of entertainment and education focused on the practical applications of climate change scientific research, renewable energy, and sustainability initiatives. 

The film features Danish glaciologist, Dr. Sebastian Mernild, sharing how his research in the Andes was funded by the Chilean National Science Foundation and also showcases how a USAID-funded program in Huaraz, Peru, aims to use bio-remediation to clean river water of heavy metals that is occurring due to deglaciation. These expeditions and their findings highlight the efficacy of scientific organizational programs and the need for continued research funding. These salient discussion topics are now being explored in our post-film screening Q&As with students who are trying to find gravity in this changing educational environment. 

The Risan Project produces multi-media events featuring environmental and action sports films paired with concerts that allows for integration of on-screen content and on-site experiential marketing with our environmental, outdoor and cannabis industry partners. In this age of digital overload, the Risan Project provides an experiential alternative for brands with our national events.

The Risan Project connects organizations and brands with mountain and urban communities composed of environmentally-conscious and outdoor enthusiasts.  With the inclusion of our educational and environmentally-conscious elements in our tour, we elevate community with engaging content.

The Risan Project’s house-band, Salem, performs Todd Anders Johnson’s socially-conscious compositions blending alternative rock, world, hip-hop, jazz and neo-soul. The band is comprised of snowboarders and skiers and the group has been touring the powder highways of the Lower 48, Canada and Alaska performing at concert venues, festivals, colleges and competitive snow-sports events like the Winter X Games, the US Freeskiing Open and at snow-sports conventions like SIA and Outdoor Retailer.

“Salem unites seemingly disparate topics: global peace and powder shots. Blending jazz, funk, spoken word and some Afro-Cuban beats, it makes crowds dance and think.” Katy Niner, Jackson Hole News and Guide

Our in-house world jazz band, Boureas, has been performing Afro-Cuban and Flamenco-inflected jazz throughout Colorado, Nantucket and Utah at a variety of venues with arts organizations and outdoor industry conventions like the Nantucket Land Council, Breck Create and Outdoor Retailer. Boureas performs on the Cresta Alta Film Tour with The Risan Project at key venues.

Risan Project events feature Risan Media's climate change and sustainability documentary film, Cresta Alta, and Northward: The Salem Story. Our 2025 events have included action sports films and content from Absinthe Films, Field Productions, Standard Films, Salomon, Line Skis, Sweetgrass Productions, Inspired Media, Vantage Cinema, Stellar Media, the Snowboarder’s Journal, Ivresse Films, Xtreme Video and Your Big Stories, Almo Films, Picture Organic Clothing and Local Rolli.