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Celebrate
Writers, Nature &
Community
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Updated
July 11, 2010
WATERSHED
Environmental
Poetry Festival
Saturday
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October
2, 2010
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Noon
to 4:30
pm
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Free
Martin
Luther King, Jr. Civic Center Park
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Berkeley
One block west of Downtown Berkeley
BART
Strawberry
Creek Walk
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10 am
at Oxford & Center
Alison
Hawthorne Deming
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Brenda Hillman
David Meltzer
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Al Young
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Robert Hass
Camille T. Dungy poet & editor of
Black
Nature:
Four Centuries of African American
Nature
Poetry
John Felstiner --
Can
Poetry Save the Earth?
A Field Guide to Nature
Poems
Contributors to
The
Place That Inhabits Us:
Poems of the SF Bay
Watershed
Student & Youth Poets
from
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River of Words
California Poets in the Schools
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Poetry Inside Out
Barry
Finnerty's Jazz Roots
Trio
We Are
Nature open reading
Sign
up by noon on site
Plus
Environmental Presenters
Julia
Whitty -- Deep Blue Home:
An Intimate Ecology of Our Wild Ocean
Annie Leonard -- The Book of
Stuff
presented
by the Ecology
Center
Strawberry
Creek Daylighting Update
from
Ecocity Builders
River Village
Literary & Environmental Exhibits
THIS
YEAR,
SHADE!!!
Click
here to
Register
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.
Check
back for program
updates!
Watershed
Environmental Poetry Festival
is a collaboration
of
Robert
Hass, US Poet Laureate 1995-97
Poetry Flash • EcoCity
Builders
Ecology Center/Berkeley Farmers'
Market
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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
September 24
Email:
mbb@poetryflash.org
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The 2009
festival was made possible with support
from
The
Watershed Keepers - our individual donors
& volunteers
Civic Arts Program, City of
Berkeley
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Zellerbach
Family Fund
East Bay Municipal Utility District
This event is supported by Poets &
Writers, Inc. through
a grant received from The James Irvine
Foundation
Acme
Bread
Company
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Berkeley
Horticultural Nursery
Berkeley Bowl
Marketplace
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Bette's-To-Go
Cheese
Board
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Semifreddi's
Bakery
Trader Joe's,
Emeryville
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Voila
the Juice
Company
Watershed
Logo by Shane Eagleton
