Celebrate Writers, Nature & Community 2004 Program Schedule WATERSHED Environmental Poetry Festival Saturday, October 2, 2004 • Noon to 5:00pm • 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. The public is invited to join Robert Hass, our featured readers, Voices of Place poets, and restoration advocates for a short hike from UC Campus through downtown Berkeley, tracing the route of Strawberry Creek as it tunnels beneath the heart of the city to the site of the festival. 11:30 Music by Bekka's Frogland Orchestra at Civic Center Park 12:00 Welcome Voices of Place Reading: An orchestrated performance introduced by Chris Olander. Lorenzo Baca • Dennis Fritzinger • Susan Sibbet blake more • Susan Kelly-DeWitt • Claire Blotter "We Are Nature" Open Reading (sign up by noon) Environmental Update EcoCity Builders and friends will talk about a proposed bioregional transition model for the SF Bay Area/Delta bioregion that will link with local projects in the works featuring ecological development and watershed restoration. Speakers: Kirstin Miller (EcoCity Builders), Jan C. Lundberg (Sustainable Energy Institute), and David Room (Post Carbon Institute). 1:00 Lucille Lang Day reads from her current poetry including Wild One and Infinities. George Keithley reads from his current poetry including The Starry Messenger. Robert Hass presents student poets from River of Words, California Poets in the Schools, and Poetry Inside Out. 2:00 Environmental Update Ecology Center/Berkeley Farmers Market's Kirk Lumpkin presents Sibella Kraus (Sustainable Agriculture Education) Monica Wilson (Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives) Bekka's Frogland Orchestra Voices of Place Reading Dennis Fritzinger • Lorenzo Baca • blake more Susan Kelly-DeWitt • Kirk Lumpkin Claire Blotter • Chris Olander Peter Warshall Environmental wrtier editor ofWhole Earth Review discusses Watersheds. 3:00 Kathryn Roszak's Anima Mundi Dance Company performs selections from The Fifth Book of Peace by Maxine Hong Kingston. Bekka's Frogland Orchestra Lawrence Ferlinghetti reads from his current poetry including Americus, Book I. Marc Bamuthi Joseph performs his current poetry. 4:00 Bekka's Frogland Orchestra Pattiann Rodgers reads from her current poetry including generations. Robert Hass U.S. Poet Laureate, 1995-1997 reads from his current work. 5:00 Encore performance with Robert Hass, featured poets, and Bekka's Frogland Orchestra.   MLK, Jr., Civic Center Park is Wheelchair Accessible. Spoken Word Performances Sign Language Interpreted.