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Schedule
 
Friday, April 25th

1:15pm—Film screening: Atacama, The Flowering Desert; Amherst Cinema Arts Center

2:30pm—Keynote Address: David Gessner, editor of Ecotone, author of Soaring with Fidel; Sick of Nature; and Return of the Osprey; Amherst Cinema Arts Center

4:15pm—Roundtable: Local Solutions, Intentional Living; Emily Dickinson Homestead

8:00pm—Mini Readings by Many: from Pliny to Barry Lopez, Poetry & Prose; Unitarian Church of Amherst

 

 
Saturday, April 26th

12:30pm—Performance: Seachange: Science, Poetry, & Whale Song: Roger Payne, whale biologist, and Lisa Harrow, actress;  Amherst Cinema Arts Center

1:30 pm—Magazine & Book Fair Opens, Memorial Hall, University of Massachusetts

2:00pm—Roundtable: Activism & Art, Science & the Soul; Memorial Hall, University of Massachusetts

3:30pm—Roundtable: Eco-literacy & Environmental Publishing; Memorial Hall, University of Massachusetts

5:00pm—Reading: Derrick Jensen, author of A Language Older than Words, and Listening to the Land: Conversations about Nature, Culture, and Eros; Memorial Hall, University of Massachusetts

8:00pm—Reading: Gretel Ehrlich, author of The Solace of Open Spaces; Questions of Heaven; John Muir, a biography; and The Future of Ice; Memorial Hall, University of Massachusetts