Sunday, 08 Feb 2009
Family Event: Valentine Sunday
Celebrate Valentine's Day early at Reiman Gardens with live music, family events and activities. Discounts and samples available at the gift shop.
Readings: Flyaway "Home Voices" Award
Writers in the MFA Program in Creative Writing and Environment will read from their creative work featuring themes of environmental imagination. The readers were selected from a competitive pool of submissions by the staff of Flyway, a journal of writing and environment in which the top winner's work will also be published in 2009. Part of the Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness, and the Creative Imagination.
Gallery Talk: "Waste Land"
"Waste Land: Meditations on a Ravaged Landscape," David Hanson, photographer. He will discuss his "Waste Land" series, while exploring the relationship between humans and nature in America. Several of Hanson's photos are featured in the Brunnier exhibition, "Imaging a Shattered Earth: Contemporary Photography and the Environmental Debate."
Performance: The Peking Acrobats
The Peking Acrobats, a troupe of China's most gifted tumblers, contortionists, jugglers, cyclists and gymnasts, bring their 2,000-year-old traditional arts to Stephens Auditorium.
Lecture: Who owns the American West?
"Who Owns the American West?" A reading and conversation with author William Kittredge. Kittredge has been a prominent voice in the literature of the American West, with writings that explore the theme of sustainability and its relationship to culture, history, and human nature. The conversation will be moderated by Benjamin Percy, ISU English. Part of the Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness, and the Creative Imagination.