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Celebrate
Writers, Nature &
Community
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2003 Program
Schedule
WATERSHED
Environmental
Poetry Festival
Saturday,
September 6, 2003
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Noon to 5:00pm
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Free
Martin Luther King, Jr., Civic Center Park
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Berkeley
MLK
Jr. Way at Center • One Block West
from Downtown Berkeley BART
Strawberry
Creek Walk
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10 am at Oxford & Center
10:00
Strawberry Creek
Walk
Begins
at Center and Oxford Streets.
The public is invited to join our featured
readers, local poets
and restoration advocates for a short hike
up Strawberry Creek
through the UC Campus and back through
downtown Berkeley,
tracing the route of the creek as it
tunnels beneath the heart of the city
to the site of the
festival.
11:30
Music by Smooth Toad:
Andy Dinsmoor, G.P. Skratz, and Bob
Ernst.
at Civic Center
Park
12:00
Welcome
Voices
of the Watershed Readings No.
1:
An orchestrated performance introduced by
Chris Olander
Robyn Martin
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Nila Northsun
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Dan Roberts
Adam David Miller
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Linda Noel
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Bill Gainer
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Chris Olander
"We
Are Nature" Open
Reading
(sign up by noon)
EcoCity
Builders
presents
"The Unusual Anatomy of Strawberry
Creek"
with Kirstin Miller/EcoCity Builders,
Stephanie Manning/Ocean View
historian and shellmound researcher,
and an expert form UC
Berkeley.
1:00
Maya Khosla/poet and naturalist
with musicians Andy Dinsmoor & G.P.
Skratz.
Voices
of the Watershed Readings No. 2:
Robyn
Martin
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Rita
Flores Bogaert
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Dan Roberts
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Linda Noel
Nila Northsun
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Kirk Lumpkin
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Chris Olander
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G.P. Skratz
Summer Benner with musician Andy
Dinsmoor.
Robert
Hass presents student poets
from
River of Words and California Poets in the
Schools
2:00
Ecology
Center/Berkley Farmers' Market
presents
"30 Years of Curbside Recycling"
with Dave Williamson/Ecology Center
"Environmentalists Against War"
with Phil Klasky/Bay Area Nuclear Waste
Coalition.
Voices
of the Watershed Readings No.
3:
Robyn Martin
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Nila Northsun
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Rita Flores Bogaert
Adam David Miller
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Bill Gainer
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Chris Olander
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Linda Noel
Anima
Mundi Dance Company
dancers Kathryn Roszak and Terese
Hoibye
and actor Earll Kingston perform Gary
Snyder's
"Mountains and Rivers Without
End."
3:00
Gray Brechin.
Sharon
Doubiago.
B.H.
Fairchild.
4:00
Robert Hass
Sherman
Alexie, due to illness, did not read.
Jane Hirshfield, read
instead.
5:00
Closing with Robert Hass and Smooth
Toad.
Watershed
Environmental Poetry Festival
is a collaboration of
Robert
Hass, US Poet Laureate 1995-97
Poetry Flash
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EcoCity Builders
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Save The Bay
Ecology Center/Berkeley Farmers'
Market
This
year's festival is made possible with
support from
The
Watershed Keepers
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our individual donors & volunteers
Zellerbach Family Fund
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William & Flora Hewlett Foundation
W. A. Gerbode Foundation
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Civic Arts Program, City of Berkeley
California Arts Council Arts and
Accessibility
Technical Assistance Program
East Bay Municipal Utility District
(EDMUD)
Travel provided by Southwest Airlines.
This event is supported by Poets &
Writers, Inc. through
a grant received from The James Irvine
Foundation.
Acme Bread Co.
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Andronico's Markets
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Art Store, Oakland
Berkeley Bowl Produce
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Berkeley Horticultural Nursery
Cheese Board
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Kermit Lynch Wine Merchant
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Monterey Market
Noah's Bagels, Telegraph
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Peaberry's Coffee
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Semifreddi's Bakery
Trader Joe's, Emmeryville
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Voila the Juice Company
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MLK, Jr.,
Civic Center Park is Wheelchair
Accessible.
Spoken Word Performances Sign
Language
Interpreted.
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