Celebrate Writers, Nature & Community Updated September 29, 2006 WATERSHED Environmental Poetry Festival Saturday, October 28 • Noon to 6 pm • Free NEW LOCATION FOR THIS YEAR'S FESTIVAL Berkeley City College 2050Center Street, Berkeley One-half block west of Downtown Berkeley BART featured poets California Poet Laureate Al Young eco-feminist writer Susan Griffin LA Rvier activist Lewis MacAdams eco-educator Chris Olander visual artist Albert Flynn DeSilver translator and educator John Oliver Simon translator and editor Richard Silberg percussionist Avotcja Kim Shuck & More Student and youth poets from California Poets in the Schools Poetry Inside Out • River of Words Music by Smooth Toad with poet G.P. Skratz Andy Dinsmore and Bob Ernst. Special Guests dancer Patricia Bulitt creator of our Watershed banners and River of Flowers Arthur Okamura renowned natural history photographer Winner of the Biodiversity Leadership Award David Liittschwager program includes "Strawberry Creek Walk Poetry Workshop and Open Reading" with poets, artists and naturalists beginning Oxford and Center Streets, 10:00 a.m. resuming mid afternoon at Berkeley City College where poets will refine their creek poems for a finale reading to close the festival "Nature Through Artists' Eyes" panel with featured artists to be announced "Ecological Design and the Poetry of Place --Strawberry Creek Downtown" with Kirstin Miller and Richard Register of EcoCity Builders Gus Yates of Citizens for a Strawberry Creek Plaza "Sustainable Living" led by Kirk Lumpkin of the Ecology Center River Village features literary, art, and environmental exhibitors. For information on exhibiting click on the EXHIBIT botton on the left or contact Mark Baldridge at (510) 526-9105 or mbb@poetryflash.org Check back for updates and festival schedule. This year's festival is made possible with support from The Watershed Keepers - our individual donors & volunteers Zellerbach Family Fund East Bay Municipal Utility District (EDMUD) Civic Arts Program, City of Berkeley This event is supported by Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant received from The James Irvine Foundation. Acme Bread Company • Berkeley Bowl Produce Berkeley Horticultural Nursery • Cheese Board Monterey Market • Peaberry's Coffee & Tea Semifreddi's Bakery • Voila the Juice Company Berkeley City College is Wheelchair Accessible. Spoken Word Performances Sign Language Interpreted.