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Celebrate
Writers, Nature &
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Updated
October 25, 2008
WATERSHED
Environmental
Poetry Festival
Saturday,
November 1,
2008
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Noon
to
4pm
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Free
RAIN
VENUE RAIN VENUE RAIN
VENUE
Berkeley
City College Auditorium & Atrium
2050 Center Street, downtown
Berkeley
One-half block west of Downtown Berkeley
BART
Strawberry
Creek Walk
RAIN
OR
SHINE!
10 am at Oxford &
Center*
Robert Hass
•
Jane Hirshfield
•
Brenda Hillman
Al Young with bassist Dan Robbins
•
Joseph Lease
Camille Dungy
•
Chris
Olander
•
Mike Tuggle
Avotcja with bassist Eugene Warren
The Two Graces -- Grace Faye & Grace
Tea
Student
& Youth Poets
from
River
of Words
•
Poetry Inside Out
California Poets in the
Schools
We Are
Nature open reading
Sign
up by noon on
site
Environmental
Updates
Ecology Center presents Climatologist
Eugene Cordero
co-author
of
Cool Cuisine: Taking the Bite Out of
Global
Warming
EcoCity Builders updates Strawberry Creek
daylighting
and presents Peter Berg of Planet Drum
River
Village Literary & Environmental
Exhibits
This
years exhibitors include:
City
of Berkeley Environmental Services
California Poets in the Schools
EcoCity Builders
Ecology Center Book Store
Heyday Books
Manic D Press
Planet Drum
Poetry Flash
Poetry Inside Out
River of Words
Sixteen Rivers Press
Tea Party Magazine
Book Signing
by Featured
Readers
Ecology
Center Bookstore Tent
*
Strawberry
Creek Walk
Led
by Chris Olander with readings by
participating poets and talks by creek
restoration experts.
Meet on the UC Berkeley Campus, Oxford
and Center
Streets.
SPECIAL
EVENT
A
symposium moderated by Robert
Hass
~
Creativity
in the Face of Climate
Change
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The
Role of Humanities in Awakening Societal
Change
Thursday,
October 30, 2008
•
2pm to 5:30pm
•
Free
Maude Fife Room -- Wheeler Hall
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UC Berkeley
A
presebtation of the Berkeley Institute of
the Environment
Watershed
Environmental Poetry Festival
is a collaboration
of
Robert
Hass, US Poet Laureate 1995-97
Poetry Flash • EcoCity
Builders
Ecology Center/Berkeley Farmers'
Market
with
support
from
The
Watershed Keepers - our individual donors
& volunteers
UC Berkeley Chancellor's Community
Partnership Fund
Zellerbach Family Fund • East Bay
Municipal Utility District
Civic Arts Program, City of
Berkeley
This
event is supported by Poets & Writers,
Inc. through
a grant received from The James Irvine
Foundation.
Acme
Bread Company • Berkeley
Horticultural Nursery
Berkeley Bowl Produce • Cheese Board
• Monterey Market
Peet's Coffee & Tea • Semifeddies
Bakery • Voila the Juice
Company
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MLK, Jr.,
Civic Center Park is Wheelchair
Accessible.
Spoken Word Performances Sign
Language Interpreted on
request.
ASL interpreters for the deaf and
hearing impaired
can be provided with notice by
October 25
Email:
mbb@poetryflash.org
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