The historic Newtown Theatre and Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve will screen a pre-recorded virtual talk by noted plant ecologist, educator and writer Robin Wall Kimmerer on Tuesday, September 26 at 7:30 PM at the theatre.
Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of the widely acclaimed “Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants.”
During her virtual talk at the theatre, Kimmerer will discuss the dominant themes of the book, which include the cultivation of the reciprocal relationship with the living world. Attendees are invited to consider what we might learn if we understood plants as our teachers, from both a scientific and an indigenous perspective. The talk will include a look at the stories and experiences that shaped the author.
Online tickets are $20 per person or $15 for members of the theatre and Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve. The first 50 people to purchase tickets will receive autographed (printed) bookplates.
Any remaining tickets will be sold for $30 at the door for everyone on the night of the event (if available).
About the SPEAKER
Kimmerer’s first book, “Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses,” was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing, and her other work has appeared in Orion, Whole Terrain, and numerous scientific journals.
In 2022, “Braiding Sweetgrass” was adapted for young adults by Monique Gray Smith. This new education reinforces how wider ecological understanding stems from listening to the earth’s oldest teachers: the plants around us.
Kimmerer has been featured on NPR’s On Being and in 2015 addressed the UN General Assembly on the topic of “Healing Our Relationship with Nature.” Kimmerer is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment, whose mission is to create programs which draw on the wisdom of both indigenous and scientific knowledge for our shared goals of sustainability. In 2022, she was named a MacArthur Fellow.
DETAILS
Doors open at 6:30 PM and the lecture starts at 7:30 PM.
All tickets are general admission.
Members of the Newtown Theatre and Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve, please be prepared to present your membership card at the door.
Please bring your tickets! Electronic or hard copy is fine. We recommend printing them out (or saving them to your phone) as soon as soon as you buy them.
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All ticket sales are final. Refunds/exchanges will not be offered for any reason. If you can't attend, you're welcome to give your tickets to someone else. The name on the ticket does not have to match the person using it.