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New Ways to Welcome Spring: Climate Change and You
March 13, 2015 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Free
Celebrate the changing seasons with an evening of enlightening and entertaining works from the journalist Elizabeth Royte and John KixMiller, the author of The Protectors of The Wood, a series of illustrated adventure novels about a group of misfit teenagers saving the world from climate change. KixMiller will be joined by the four-piece Protectors of the Wood Band.
Elizabeth Royte will read from her recent work, including a piece about collecting
condoms in Prospect Park, and then will talk about her career in environmental journalism.
Elizabeth Royte is the author of Bottlemania: How Water Went On Sale and Why We Bought It;
Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash; and TheTapir’s Morning Bath: Solving the Mysteries of the Tropical Rain Forest. Her writing on science and the environment has appeared in
Harper’s, National Geographic, Outside, The New York Times Magazine, and other national publications.
John KixMiller will present passages from The Protectors of the Wood, which is written and illustrated (by Carlos Uribe) for people of all ages, but will be best understood by readers of middle school age and older. He will be accompanied by the Protectors of the Wood Band. He worked for 30 years for the Center for Family Life in Sunset Park. Over the past five years he developed a gardening program for children as a part of the after-school program. He is the
author of A Schoolyard in Brooklyn (The New School, Institute for Urban Affairs),
and coauthor of A Community Center Model for Current Urban Needs(included in
Group Work Practice in a Troubled Society). He is working on volume three of the Protectors of the Wood Book Series, The Ghost Girl.
Refreshments will be served.
All Wordsprout participants are Coop members.
Bookings: John Donohue, wordsproutspsfc@gmail.com
Views expressed by the presenters do not necessarily represent the Park Slope Food Coop.
This event is free and open to the public.