Strawberry Creek Walk: Chris Olander, Mk Chavez, Theresa Whitehill, more

26 SEPTEMBER 2015 — saturday

Strawberry Creek Walk, part of the Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival, a gentle walk led by Nevada City poet/eco-educator Chris Olander, winds along Strawberry Creek through the University of California campus to downtown Berkeley to the Watershed Festival site, readings by poet, naturalist, and filmmaker Maya Khosla, Keel Bone; Oakland poet Mk Chavez, Virgin Eyes; Seattle poet, writer, climate activist Emily Johnston debuts Her Animals, her new poetry collection; poet/physicist J. David Cummings, Tancho; poet, artist, letterpress printer Theresa Whitehill; Chris Olander; with natural history commentary by Tim Pine, Director of the UC Berkeley Environmental Health and Safety Department; A 100 Thousand Poets for Change event presented by Poetry Flash and Ecology Center/Berkeley Farmers' Market, the Strawberry Creek Walk meets in (and leaves from) the Redwood Grove at the southeast corner of Oxford at Center, near the sculpture of the World Globe as you enter the UC campus, Oxford and Center Streets, University of California at Berkeley, free, 10:00 a.m. (510/525-5476, info@poetryflash.org)