HERE WE COME AGAIN!!!
Summer 2022 filming with the amazing Trish Jones. Here we come again for summer 2023. Bridge Lake Rodeo. See you there. July 1. Check it out: https://www.facebook.com/BridgeLakeRodeo/
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RELAY RACING WOMEN
An early involvement of women in rodeo (before it was even called rodeo) along with exhibition bronc riding was relay racing. Check out this new film. I’m going to see it this Wednesday at HotDocs. Maybe Rodeo Women will make it there one day!! Here’s the url for the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmorZGT31HY
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kaila Mussell
https://www.redbull.com/ie-en/episodes/saddle-bronc-rider-breaking-the-day-s01-e05 Here is a rodeo woman who transformed professional saddle bronc riding because she always believed she could and never considered otherwise.
Riding in the foothills of the andes
And also found a little horse to ride. Caballeras became our new word!!
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Mendosa
Found our way to Argentina this winter. Didn’t find a rodeo but here are our companions from the vineyard.
Rodeo Women, and all the Women Doing the Work
Reposted with gratitude from The Native Cowgirl on Facebook. – Susan Here’s To The Girls The chore girls. The feedlot girls. The ranch girls. And the cowgirls. Here’s to the doers. The hustlers. The ones getting their hands dirty. The women who worked outside all day and the ones who fall asleep as soon as their heads
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Rodeo Halls of Fame
In the rodeo world, a Hall of Fame is an industry and donor-funded institution that celebrates members of the rodeo community who are nominated as representative of the best, the most, or the longest participants in the sport. Generally, Halls of Fame in the US and Canada (there are a bunch) induct especially pathbreaking or
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The Charm of Old Photos
Photographs are some of the most wonderful historical sources, for friends and family, certainly, but also for historians. They don’t represent the truth of the past, but a moment frozen in time that might have been candid, might have been posed or carefully crafted. Regardless, photos give us a sense of what people looked like
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Falkland Stampede May 2022
Falkland Stampede was one of our first stops for gathering material for the film. Four generations of Churchill relatives working behind the scenes to make this rodeo a success for the spectators and the community.
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How Do We Document Everyday Rodeos?
This is what the vast majority of Canadian rodeos have looked like over time. Small affairs run by local volunteers in temporary buildings and grounds, these rodeos did not generate the mountains of paperwork and bank of professionally-shot photographs, and newspaper coverage that the big, professional circuit shows did. Most of the rare and valuable
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