UPCOMING EVENTS
Featuring Montana Author Rick Bass
Sunday, March 27th
Emerson Theatre 12pm - 4pm
followed by a bioregional networking social until 6:30
$10 suggested donation
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
12:00 - 2:00
Opening Performance: Montana Taiko
Recorded Plenary Speakers
Michael Pollan ~ Winnona LaDuke ~ Jessica Rimington
2:00 - 3:30
Recorded Plenary Speaker ~ John Francis
Gardens From Garbage
Listen to local Great Falls residence who engaged their city to start a
city-wide composting program — inspired from Bioneers years ago
Keynote Presentation: 3:30pm
Montana Author Rick Bass
Bass will be speaking on his experiences with community involvement as they relate to regional environmental issues, providing a unique perspective evolved from his residency in the remote Yaak valley of Northwest Montana.
The Country Bookshelf will host a book signing immediately
following his presentation in the Emerson Ballroom
4:30 - 6:30
Bioregional Social-Networking Gathering
Over 15 Local organizations, and community movers and shakers will be on hand to let you and the community know what they have been working on and how you can get involved.
- no host food & drink
Rick Bass is recognized as one of the foremost nature writers in America today.
He is celebrated as both a skillful storyteller
and outspoken advocate of wilderness preservation.
Bass has established himself as a regional fiction and nonfiction writer of the American South, Southwest, and Pacific Northwest, setting his stories in the mountains, rivers, forests, swamps, and valleys of these areas. His stories express an admiration for nature, alarm at the forces of development that are altering America's landscape, and nostalgia for memories of wilderness and wildlife.
Bass is a Texas native who lived in Arkansas and Mississippi before moving to northwest Montana’s Yaak Valley, where he lives with his wife and daughters. A former petroleum geologist and wildlife biologist, he is the author of twenty other books, including a short story collection, The Hermit’s Story, and a memoir, Why I Came West. An active environmentalist, Bass is a member of the Yaak Valley Forest Council, working to protect as wilderness the last roadless lands in the Yaak Valley.
His most recent work The Heart of the Monster: Why the Pacific Northwest & Northern Rockies Must Not Become an ExxonMobil Conduit to the Alberta Tar Sands
is a collaboration with Montana Author David James Duncan
The Heart of the Monster, a half fiction/half non-fiction advocacy book
whose proceeds go to All Against the Haul.
The Heart of The Monster isn't just about Idaho and Montana. It's about corporate power in America, about salmon and grizzlies, and species extintion, about A.B. Guthrie's and Ivan Doig's Big Sky, about a quality of life. It's a story that pits irreversible global warming versus the integrity of wilderness, the Columbis River Gorge versus ExxonMobil, community intergrity versus corporate power, and the politics of money versus those of heart and will.
Featured Bioneers recorded speakers include:
Michael Pollan:a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine and the recipient of numerous journalistic awards, served for many years as executive editor of Harper’s Magazine and is now a professor of Science and Environmental Journalism at UC Berkeley. He is also the nation’s most influential and important thinker and writer on food and agriculture, the author of many seminal, award-winning, bestselling books, including, most recently In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto, and previously: The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals; The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World; A Place of My Own; and Second Nature.
Winona LaDuke: from the White Earth reservation in Minnesota, is a two time Green Party U.S. vice-presidential candidate, the mother of five, and program director of Honor the Earth, a Native American foundation working on environmental and energy issues. Founding director of the White Earth Land Recovery Project, Winona has worked for more than 20 years on indigenous land issues and is the recipient of a wide array of prestigious awards, including, most recently, the International Slow Food Award. She has written extensively on Native American and environmental issues and is the author of five books, including: Last Standing Woman, All Our Relations, and Recovering the Sacred.
Jessica Rimington: a social entrepreneur, spoken word artist and activist, is the founder and Executive Director of One World Youth Project, an innovative education start-up connecting schools worldwide to transform students into empowered global citizens. Named as a 'Rising Talent' by the Women's Forum for the Economy and Society in 2008, Jess has also received Earth Island Institute's Brower Youth Award and Do Something's BRICK Award for her activism and is the principal author of the 2006 UN Millennium Development Goal Curriculum for Secondary School. Jess has traveled throughout the world for grassroots work related to youth participation in the Millennium Development Goals. She has a degree in Foreign Service and a Certificate in International Development from Georgetown University.
John Francis: Ph.D., is known the world over as the Planetwalker. In 1971, Dr. Francis witnessed an oil spill in San Francisco Bay. The effects of the spill compelled him to stop using motorized vehicles. Several months later, to stop the arguments about the power of one person's actions, he took a vow of silence. His non-motorized lifestyle lasted twenty-two years, and his silence seventeen. Dr. Francis will speak on his journey, his unique perspective on environment, and how we can each make a difference in our world. He is the author of: Planetwalker. 22 Years of Walking. 17 Years of Silence.
Join us on Sunday, March 27th at the Emerson Cultural Center,
12pm to 6:30pm.
If you have any questions please feel free to contact
The Bioregional OutReach Network at info@bornnetwork.org.
If you are interested in volunteering or assisting in marketing the event, we'd love to have you! Contact us at info@bornnetwork.org. You rock!
WHO'S YOUR FARMER?
Now entering our third season, the Bozeman Winter Farmers' Market grew from the demand for a direct producer-to-consumer experience beyond the traditional summer market season, as well as an abundance of offerings from local farmers and producers reaching well into the winter, and replenishing in the spring.
During the months of October through April, you can find grassfed meats, goat cheese, root vegetables, greenhouse fare, farm fresh eggs, seeds & starter plants, breads & baked goods, handmade garden tools, jams & preserves, grains & oils, and more, all under one roof at the Emerson Center in Bozeman, two Saturdays per month, 9am - 12pm.
NEXT MARKET:
Saturday, April 2
Saturday, April 2
2011 winter markets: Feb 5 & 19, March 5 & 19, April 2 & 16
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!
We need helping hands setting-up (7:30 - 9am) and tearing-down (12 - 1pm).
If you have an hour before heading to the wintery mountains, we'd sure appreciate it!
PLEASE contact us at: info@bornnetwork.org. We look forward to hearing from you!
Restorative Justice News
For those interested in bringing restorative justice to life in our communities,
take note of an upcoming opportunity this April.
Joanie Kresich will be leading a training in restorative justice circles
as practiced by Dominic Barter - a pioneer practitioner in Brazil.
The training will take place in Livingston
at Community Health Partners on
Saturday April 9, 10:00 to 4:00 and Sunday April 10 from 10:00 to 1:00.
Participants will practice the three stages of the circle process and
deepen their understanding of restorative justice principles.
Registration forms will be available soon.
For questions: Call Joanie at 222-5279 or email at jkresich@yahoo.com
We hope to see you at one of these event soon!
