Celebrate Writers, Nature & Community   Everyone Welcome! Walk & Learn the Ecology of Strawberry Creek WATERSHED Environmental Poetry Festival presents Strawberry Creek Walk & Workshop "Writing the Watershed into Our Lives" Saturday, October 28, 2006 Begins on the UC Berkeley Campus Meet at Oxford and Center Streets A Pre-Festival Creek Walk and Poetry Workshop, open to all, will begin the celebration at 10 a.m. Starting on the UC Berkeley Campus at Oxford and Center Streets, the Walk will visit various creek-side sites for presentations by poet/percussionist Avotcja, dancer Patricia Bulitt, and Native American poet/activist Kim Shuck. This walking/writing meditation on place will also trace the route of Strawberry Creek as it tunnels beneath downtown Berkeley. Besides poets responding to the creek's condition, restoration advocates will discuss the why and how of "daylighting." The writing-workshop portion of the Walk will resume mid-afternoon at Berkeley City College where poets will refine their creek poems for a finale reading to close the festival. Strawberry Creek Walk Itinerary 9:45 a.m. Gather at Oxford and Center Streets on the UC Campus. Poet/percussionist Avotcja performs. 10:20 a.m. Dancer Patricia Bullit will perform in hte Eucalyptus Grove. 10:35 a.m. On the Valley Life Sciences Lawn, the site of the 2005 Watershed Frestival, Lewis MacAdams will talk about his efforts with Friends of the LA River. 11:05 a.m. At the Sather Gate bridge poet Kim Shuck will read. 11:25 a.m. At the Bay Tree Bridge Kirk Lumpkin will speak and read poems concerning our ecological relationshipsto other lifeforms. 11:45 a.m. As the walk returns to Oxford and Center Kirstin Millers will discuss the progress toward daylighting Strawberry Creek through downtown. Noon The Watershed Poetry program begins at Berkeley City College This year's festival is made possible with support from The Watershed Keepers - our individual donors & volunteers Zellerbach Family Fund Civic Arts Program, City of Berkeley J