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April 5, 2013
 As
mentioned in the last update, Peter was feted in
absentia at the American Film Festival. He received the
"Making a Difference, One Film at a Time" award for his
contributions to documentary film. Festival director
Teddy Grouya said, "Peter, of course, thought it was a
unique award and was extremely flattered, especially
that we are acknowledging him specifically within this
genre. In this genre, Peter Coyote tops them all!"
Check out this link to see a video of Peter
accepting the award.
March 21, 2013
  The
2013 American Documentary Film Festival in Palm Springs
will be honoring Peter with their "Making a
Difference, One Film at a Time" award. Having
narrated more than 170 documentaries over his career, he
has earned a special place in filmmaking. His most
recent documentaries include Ken Burns’ “The Dust Bowl”,
which aired on PBS in November, and “1962 U.S. Open:
Jack’s First Major”, which aired last summer.The award
will be announced at this year's Opening Night but,
unfortunately, scheduling conflicts prevent him from
attending in person. Peter previously won a news and
documentary Emmy in 1992
for his narration of the PBS series "Pacific Century".
 Last
year Peter joined the filmmaking team as narrator for
Rick Beyer's documentary "The Ghost Army". The
film made its world premiere earlier this month during
the Opening Night of the 6th Annual Salem Film Festival
in Massachusetts. The 68-minute documentary chronicles
the astonishing true story of the 23rd HQ Special Troops
during World War II. A handpicked group of American GI’s
undertook a bizarre mission: create a traveling road
show of deception on the battlefields of Europe, with
the German Army as their audience. They were officially
known as the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops, but
became known as The Ghost Army. From June 1944 to March
1945, the unit of artists and soldiers staged 20
battlefield deceptions, beginning in Normandy and ending
along the Rhine River. The deceivers used inflatable
rubber tanks, sound trucks, and dazzling performance art
to bluff the enemy again and again, often right along
the front line. In their spare time, they painted and
sketched their way across Europe, creating a unique and
moving visual record of their war, one that would be
kept secret for 50 years. The film will be shown on
PBS on May 21, 2013.
Besides
being an actor, writer and film narrator, Peter is also
a countercultural visionary whose ordination as a Zen
Buddhist priest has led him to an examination of the
limits of human intelligence. Though our applied
intelligence has resulted in incredible innovations
(tools, technology, science), Peter is concerned with
the unintended consequences of advancement: violence,
war and destruction. He will be discussing the power of
intelligence to address social ills on May 21st at the
Lafayette Library in Lafayette, CA.
March 5, 2013
 Shout
Factory has officially announced and detailed its
upcoming Blu-ray release of director William Dear's "Timerider:
The Adventure of Lyle Swann" (1982), starring Fred
Ward, Belinda Bauer, and Peter Coyote. The release will
be available for purchase online and in stores across
the nation on March 19th. Lyle Swann (Fred Ward) is a
champion off-road racer who accidentally gets zapped
into a time-travel experiment and sent 100 years into
the past. Later he runs afoul of American outlaws Porter
Reese (Peter Coyote) and his henchmen, Carl (Tracey
Walter) and Claude (Richard Mauser), who steal his
motorcycle. Swann must outsmart the local cowboys and
submit to the desires of a beautiful outlaw woman
(Belinda Bauer). Armed with only his wits and a map from
an Exxon station, Lyle Swann must survive the Wild West
and get back to his future.
February 23, 2013
On
February 20th, Peter and his wife attended the SF
screening of "Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel".
Captured through the lens of her granddaughter in-law,
Lisa Immortado Vreeland, the film chronicles Diana
Vreeland’s fantastical life, which revolved around
fashion, big ideas and unbridled imagination.The
screening, hosted by Mark Rhoades and sponsored by
Banana Republic, brought A-list style aficionados. The
evening began with a festival cocktail party. The first
photo shows Peter and his wife with Lisa Immortado
Vreeland.
January 9, 2013
 Last
month a new poster book was published called "Art of
the Dead" by Phil Cushway. The coffee table book
tells the story of poster art through the Grateful Dead,
which frequently partnered with artists, and offers a
chronological evolution of the art from the band's
beginning in 1965 through Jerry Garcia's death in 1995.
The book includes interviews and profiles of the
decade's biggest artists, including Rick Griffin,
Stanley "Mouse" Miller, Alton Kelley, Wes Wilson and
Victor Moscoso. It also offers essays, including one
by Peter. The book is in four-color throughout,
featuring iconic and rare images as well as extensive
“process” material, including sketches, original art,
blue lines, film, and printing plates that show how the
art was created. Ultimately, the book makes the case
that poster art is truly an original form of American
fine art.
The
Houston Zen Center has invited Peter to participate
in two upcoming events on February 1 & 2, 2013. The
Friday night gathering will include brief dharma words
and an informal reception. On Saturday, he will conduct
a Mask Workshop as a benefit for the Center. Since the
workshop is limited to 20 participants, tickets are no
longer available.
December 14, 2012
Here
are a couple photos of Peter attending the screening of
Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained" at the
Ziegfield Theater in New York City on Tuesday evening.
The right photo shows Peter with actor Richard Belzer.
Tonight
Peter will be attending the "Bring Leonard
Peltier Home" Concert at the NYC's Beacon
Theatre. Hosted by Harry Belafonte and Pete Seeger,
the concert will feature performances by Jackson
Browne, Bruce Cockburn, Jennifer Kreisberg, Bill
Miller, Margo Thunderbird. Besides, Peter, guest
speakers will include Author Peter Matthiesson,
Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, and Former Amnesty
International President Jack Healey. Leonard Peltier
is a Native American activist imprisoned since the
mid Seventies for his involvement with controversial
incidents at Wounded Knee and Oglala, South Dakota,
including the shooting deaths of two FBI agents. If
you click on the photo below, it'll take you to
Peter's interview yesterday with Democracy Now!
November 18, 2012
 THE
DUST BOWL, narrated by Peter, will be shown
in a two-part program airing tonight and tomorrow night.
Filmmaker Ken Burns chronicles the worst
man-made ecological disaster in American history. The
four-hour documentary chronicles this critical moment in
American history in all its complexities and profound
human drama. It is part oral history, using compelling
interviews of 26 survivors of those hard times - what
will probably be the last recorded testimony of the
generation that lived through the Dust Bowl. Filled with
seldom seen movie footage, previously unpublished
photographs, the songs of Woody Guthrie, and the
observations of two remarkable women who left behind
eloquent written accounts, the film is also a historical
accounting of what happened and why during the 1930s on
the southern Plains.
October 30, 2012
There's
an article by Coyote presently online at Salon.com
called "The Progressive Case for Obama" - Drones,
the drug war and income inequality are important. But a
vote against Obama only makes other issues worse".
Check it out!
September 6, 2012
A
new link has been created in the "Archives" section for
Coyote's friends, Don and Trace Yeoman. Don is
one of the great living totem-pole carvers and his wife
is a painter. Their son Kyran, who hopes to follow in
his father's footsteps, has made a beautiful 20-minute
video. They are Haida Native people from Canada and one
of Don's creations is a 40-foot totem pole on display at
Vancouver Airport terminal. You can watch the video
at this link.
In
mid-November, PBS is planning to air the latest Ken
Burns mini-series, "The Dust Bowl". This
2-episode production is already announced for release on
DVD and Blu-ray Disc, with a street date of November
20th...the day after the show finishes airing! Peter,
Patricia Clarkson, Kevin Conway, Amy Madigan, and
Carolyn McCormick lend their presence to this
documentary, which runs approximately 160 minutes long.
On
a personal note, Coyote will be laying low for the next
six months as he undergoes a rigorous medical treatment
for Hepatitis C. We wish him well and hope he'll return
to good health soon.
August 9, 2012
 The
July edition of Vanity Fair included Peter in an
article called, "Suddenly That Summer."
Journalist Sheila Weller writes, "It was billed as 'the
Summer of Love,' a blast of glamour, ecstasy, and
Utopianism that drew some 75,000 young people to the San
Francisco streets in 1967. Who were the true movers
behind the Haight-Ashbury happening that turned America
on to a whole new age?" Most fans know that Coyote took
on a major role in that San Francisco scene if they've
read his biography, "Sleeping
Where I Fall". You can read his comments about the
Diggers at the
Vanity Fair link. Here's an old photo from those
glorious days.
California's
public TV station KQED serves as the premiere Bay
Area showcase for independent film featuring a new
season of its documentary series, "Truly CA: Our State,
Our Stories". On November 18th, it will present "Stage
Left, A Story of Theater in San Francisco". The
90-minute film by Austin Forbord begins with the
founding of The San Francisco Actor’s Workshop in 1952
and extends through 2010. Inspired by a Western history
of risk taking and exploration, a climate of political
and social activism, a particular multicultural mix, and
a geography that is seismically unstable, San Francisco
theater artists have focused on pushing the boundaries
of the form. Peter is among the artists interviewed.
July 6, 2012
 Peter
has agreed to narrate a documentary about a cycling
expedition, dubbed "The Roadmelt". Six bicyclists
will travel 500 miles to Yosemite National Park. Led by
Jacob Goff, co-founder of California conservation
organization Snowmelt, the group will ride under its own
power this month in an effort to raise water
conservation awareness before meeting with Muir's March,
a movement to restore the Hetch Hetchy Valley. "Our idea
is to do our own march on bicyles to show the landscape
of California and show how much we are dependent on
water," Goff said. Founded in 2010 with the aim of
turning adventure into conservation, The Snowmelt
modeled its philosophy on the ideas of John Muir,
founder of the Sierra Club.
June 12, 2012
"For
the Love of the Music: The Club 47 Folk Revival" is
a new documentary exploring the rich history of Club 47,
the iconic Cambridge folk music mecca from 1958 to 1968.
Narrated by Peter, it incorporates old photos, rare
footage of audio and video recordings, and personal
accounts, as it explores the influence the club had on
folk musicians from the 1960s folk revival. Featured are
interviews with Joan Baez, Taj Mahal, Judy Collins, Tom
Rush, Maria Muldaur, Geoff Muldaur, Jim Kweskin, Jackie
Washington, Jim Rooney, Peter Rowan and many more. The
film features previously unreleased audio recordings and
photographs of Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, and Eric Von
Schmidt and new performances from Club 47 stars, as well
as by today's emerging folk performers. The photos below
were taken by John Bonner.
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