This five-hour live celebration of our winged friends (both in-person and online) will feature bird poetry, bird stories, bird art, bird sounds, and bird conservation lectures from local writers, artists, naturalists and bird enthusiasts. Join us in person or online via Zoom (Zoom information below).
Live: Drop in for 15 minutes or stay for the whole afternoon! There will be 40 socially distanced seats available in the second-floor Tamalpais Room. If the event is full when you arrive, seats are likely to open up soon. Please sign the waiting list at the festival information table in the lobby.
Location: David Brower Center (Tamalpais Room), Allston Way Berkeley, CA
Registration is not required (First come, first served)
Zoom Event Information:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85243145424
Schedule
12:00 Welcome/Land Acknowledgement—Claire Greensfelder
12:10 Introduction—Pamela Michael
12:15 Poetry with Wings—Steven Rood
12:35 California Birds in Contemporary Pomo Art—Meyo Maruffo
12:55 Magnificent Migrations with BirdCast—Lia Keener
1:15 Let’s Draw Birds!—John Muir Laws
1:35 Saving What You Love: The Birds of Point Molate—Jeffrey Peterson
2:00 Bringing Nature Home to California—Kay Charter
2:20 Realization of a Dream: Condor Flies in Yurok Skies Again—Tiana Williams-Claussen
2:40 Connecting Youth Poets to Nature and Their Imaginations—River of Words
3:05 Words and Wings, Poets and Birds—Robert Hass
3:30 Feeling Birds—Kerry Tremain
3:55 Raptors Are The Solution—Vishal Subramanyan
4:20 Cal Falcon Cam—Sean Peterson/Lynn Schofield
4:40 Birds in Music—Guillermo Galindo
5:00 Thank yous and good-bye