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Celebrate
Writers, Nature &
Community
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Updated
June 8, 2009
WATERSHED
Environmental
Poetry Festival
Saturday
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September
26, 2009
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Noon
to
4pm
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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
Robert Hass
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David Mas Masumoto
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Kim Addonizio
Arthur Sze
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Marilyn Chin
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Carol Moldaw
Joseph Stroud
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Chris Olander
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Richard Silberg
Dancer Patricia Bulitt performs The
Cloud Maiden
Special Tribute to artist & teacher
Arthur Okamura
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
Environmental
Updates
Ecology Center & EcoCity Builders
River
Village Literary & Environmental
Exhibits
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 18
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
