(Tweeters: Note that Lyanda Lynn Haupt, bird author, will be presenting.)

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Environmental Writing: Inspire, Observe, Inhabit

Saturday, April 11, 2009, 9 AM - 5 PM

Burke Museum, 17th Ave. NE at NE 45th St. (UW campus)

$75 registration fee; scholarships available

Lunch provided


Join award-winning writers Lyanda Haupt, Jourdan Keith, and Coll Thrush in a
workshop devoted to writing about the environment. ?Starting at the Burke
Museum and ending at the Center for Urban Horticulture, this one-day long
program will include classroom and field-based sessions. ?Coll, Jourdan, and
Lyanda bring unique and complementary perspectives as naturalists, social
activists, and historians who have written deeply and provocatively about
the urban landscape.

A new generation of writers has begun to explore the relationship between
people and place in the urban landscape.? Their writing weaves in not only
plants and animals but also the human inhabitants, past and present, who
make up an integral part of the city.? In doing so, they are forging a new
way to look at nature and a new way to develop deeper connections to place.

Lyanda Lynn Haupt is the author of Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds and
Pilgrim on the Great Bird Continent:? The Importance of Everything and Other
Lessons from Darwin?s Lost Notebooks.? Her third book, Crow Planet, is
forthcoming from Little, Brown in 2009.? She is a winner of the Washington
State Book Award and is a Washington Arts Commission Fellow.

Jourdan Imani Keith is Seattle Poet Populist Emeritus and Seattle Public
Library?s first Naturalist-in-Residence. She is the author of Coyote Autumn:
A Memoir and the play The Uterine Files: Episode I. Her poetry and essays
blend the textures of political, personal, and natural landscapes. She is
the founder and director of Urban Wilderness Project.

Coll Thrush, a native of Puget Sound country, teaches Indigenous history at
the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Native Seattle:
Histories from the Crossing-Over Place and writes about the ways we have
understood place and home in the context of cultural and environmental
change.?

To register call Burke Education at 206-543-9681 or email
burked at u.washington.edu



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Tim Stetter
Environmental Education Program Manager
Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture
stetter at u.washington.edu
(206) 543-5591


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a better understanding of the world and our place in it.

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