Celebrate Writers, Nature & Community

2005 Program Schedule

WATERSHED
Environmental Poetry Festival

Saturday, September 24, 2005 Noon to 5 pm Free
This year's festival is in a new location
Valley Life Sciences Lawn, UC Berkeley Campus
on the North Fork of Strawberry Creek

West Entrance, Oxford St. btwn University Ave. & Center St.
one block east of downtown Berkeley BART

10 A.M.
Strawberry Creek Walk & Poetry Workshop
(meet at Martin Luther King Jr. Way & Center Street)
Robert Hass & Chris Olander
Voices of the Watershed
Daryl Chinn, James Downs, Charles and Gail Rudd Entrekin
Terri Glass, Rusty Morrison, Carlos Ramirez, Julie Valin.
Environmental Speakers:
Helen Burke, Steve Maranzana, Glen Schneider.
 

11:30 A.M.
Music by Smooth Toad
G.P. Skratz, Andy Dinsmoor, Bob Ernst.
 

NOON
Welcome
Voices of the Watershed

Carlos Ramirez, Rusty Morrison, Daryl Chinn
James Downs, Terri Glass, Julie Valin
Gail Rudd Entrekin, Charles Entrekin
"We Are Nature" Open reading
(sign up by noon)
Ecology Center/Berkeley Farmers Market's
Kirk Lumkin presents
Raquel Rivera Pinderhughes
Alternative Urban Futures.

1 P.M.
Robert Hass presents
student poets from

Poetry Inside Out
California Poets in the Schools
River of Words.
UC Berkeley Poets
Jessica Fisher, Tanya Brolaski
Hillary Gravendyk Burrill, Margaret Ronda.
Poet Brenda Hillman.

2 P.M.
Poet Joanne Kyger.
Voices of the Watershed
Carlos Ramirez, Rusty Morrison, Daryl Chinn
Julie Valin, Gail Rudd Entrekin, Charles Entrekin
Terri Glass, Chris Olander.
Ecocity Builders'
Kirstin Miller presents
Huey D. Johnson
UN Sasakawa Environment Prize Winner.

3 P.M.
Berkeley Poetry Slam Team
Jaylee Alde, Jason Bayani
Charles Ellik, Liz Green, Lucky 7.
Robert Hass & Smooth Toad
Poet Alison Hawthorne Deming

4 P.M.
Poet Kamau Daáood
with jazz bassist
Marcus Shelby
Poet Kay Ryan
Poet Robert Hass

5 P.M.
Encore performance
Robert Hass, featured poets, Smooth Toad.

 

 

VLSB Lawn is Wheelchair Accessible.
Spoken Word Performances Sign Language Interpreted.