Celebrate Writers, Nature & Community 2002 Program Schedule WATERSHED Environmental Poetry Festival Saturday, September 7, 2002 • Noon to 5:30 pm • Free Martin Luther King, Jr. Park Civic Center Park • Berkeley MLK Jr. Way at Center • One Block West from Downtown Berkeley BART Strawberry Creek Walk • 10 am at Oxford & Center 10:00 Strawberry Creek Walk Begins at Center and Oxford Streets Route: Center to Shattuck to Addison to Milvia to Center to Park 11:30 Daylight Strawberry Creek Ceremony at Civic Center Park 12:00 River Totem #1: orchestrated poetry performance Introduced by Chris Olander with Duane Big Eagle • Maria Melendez Kirk Lumpkin • Jean Stewart • Thekla Clemons "We Are Nature" Open Reading (sign up by noon) EcoCity Builders presents Strawberry Creek Update Introduced by Kirk Lumpkin with Sylvia McLaughlin - founder of Save the Bay Janet Byron - Friends of Strawberry Creek Neal Fishman - Coastal Conservancy Ann Riley - SF Regional Water Quality Control Board 1:00 Poet Patti Trimble with jazz guitarist Bill Horvitz River Totem #2: Susan Wooldridge • Arthur Dawson, Duane Big Eagle • Maria Melendez • Chris Olander Robert Hass presents student poets from River of Words and California Poets in the Schools 2:00 Ecology Center Environmental Update Introduced by Kirk Lumpkin with Kevin Danaher - Global Exchange Drew Dellinger - Poets for Global Justice Joy Moore - Fresh Farm Choice River Totem #3: Chris Olander • Russell Gonzaga • Jean Stewart Susan Wooldridge • Thekla Clemons • Arthur Dawson Homero Aridjis 3:00 Linda Hogan and Brenda Peterson Jarid Manos, Great Plains Restoration Council 4:00 Robert Hass Jerome Rothenberg Michael McClure with flutist Larry Kassin 5:00 Closing with Robert Hass and Homero Aridjis Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival is a collaboration of Robert Hass, US Poet Laureate 1995-97 Poetry Flash • EcoCity Builders Ecology Center/Berkeley Farmers' Market This year's festival is made possible with support from The Watershed Keepers - our individual donors & volunteers Zellerbach Family Fund • William & Flora Hewlett Foundation W. A. Gerbode Foundation • National Endowment for the Arts Civic Arts Program, City of Berkeley • Bay Nature Magazine California Arts Council Arts and Accessibility Technical Assistance Program • East Bay Municipal Utility District (EDMUD) This event is supported by Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant received from The James Irvine Foundation. Acme Bread Co. • Andronico's Market • Art Store • Berkeley Bowl Produce Berkeley Horticultural Nursery • Bette's-To-Go • Cheese Board Fetzer Vineyards • Golden Pacific Brewing • Grace Baking Kermit Lynch Wine Merchant • Monterey Market Semifreddi's Bakery • Voila the Juice Company Whole Foods MLK, Jr., Civic Center Park is Wheelchair Accessible. Spoken Word Performances Sign Language Interpreted.