Wow, hard to believe that there are just five weeks left until our 2010 Environmental Writer's Workshop. The all-day seminar on Saturday, May 15 will be led by Jack Nisbet, Lynda Mapes, and Susan Zwinger. Just as last year, the workshop will include time at the museum and at the Center for Urban Horticulture.
Lynda, Jack, and Susan bring unique and complementary perspectives as naturalists, journalists, instructors, and historians who have written deeply and provocatively about landscapes wild and urban. They exemplify a growing field of writing that brings in not only plants and animals, but also the human inhabitants, past and present, who dwell on the land. In doing so, they are forging a new way to look at nature and to develop deeper connections to place. Read more about each instructor here.
The cost is $100 (10% discount for Burke Members), which includes a catered lunch and instruction materials. We have fewer than 15 spots left so sign up now!
Posted by: David B. Williams, Education
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April 06, 2010
January 19, 2010
Save the Date: Environmental Writer's Workshop
Greetings from Burke Education! This is a short save-the-date notice for our 2010 Environmental Writer's Workshop. It will be held May 15, 2010.
I am excited about the instructors who have agreed to work with us. They are Jack Nisbet, Lynda Mapes, and Susan Zwinger. They bring years of experience as writers and teachers. Each is an attentive observer who weaves together history, nature, and field time into well-crafted, thought-provoking writing about place.
As we did last year, the workshop will include time at the museum and at the Center for Urban Horticulture.
Watch the Burke events calendar for a more formal announcement with details on time and cost or contact us now and we will e-mail you more information about the workshop once the details have been set. In the meantime, read on for a short biography on each of our knowledgeable instructors.
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Lynda Mapes has been a daily newspaper reporter for 25 years, at four newspapers on both sides of the country. For the past 11 years she has been at the Seattle Times, where she specializes in coverage of Indian Country, natural history, and regional environmental news. She is also the author of two books, Washington: The Spirit of the Land, about landscapes of Washington, and Breaking Ground, published in May, 2009 about the inadvertent discovery of one of the largest, oldest Indian villages ever discovered in Washington State. She believes good writing begins with deep observation, and richly attentive presence in the moment.
Spokane author Jack Nisbet writes about the intersection of human and natural history. His books include Sources of the River, Purple Flat Top, Visible Bones, and The Mapmaker's Eye. His latest work is The Collector: David Douglas and the Natural History of the Pacific Northwest.
Susan Zwinger is a widely acclaimed writer and teacher. A poet and nonfiction writer, who keeps elaborate illustrated journals, she has written The Hanford Reach, The Last Wild Edge, Stalking the Ice Dragon, Still Wild, Always Wild, and co-authored Women in Wilderness. She is currently teaching for the Whidbey Island Writers’ Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts in creative nonfiction, Colorado College, The Nature Conservancy, and the Yellowstone National Park Institute (Poetry and Ecology).
Posted by: David Williams, Education
I am excited about the instructors who have agreed to work with us. They are Jack Nisbet, Lynda Mapes, and Susan Zwinger. They bring years of experience as writers and teachers. Each is an attentive observer who weaves together history, nature, and field time into well-crafted, thought-provoking writing about place.
As we did last year, the workshop will include time at the museum and at the Center for Urban Horticulture.
Watch the Burke events calendar for a more formal announcement with details on time and cost or contact us now and we will e-mail you more information about the workshop once the details have been set. In the meantime, read on for a short biography on each of our knowledgeable instructors.
More...
Lynda Mapes has been a daily newspaper reporter for 25 years, at four newspapers on both sides of the country. For the past 11 years she has been at the Seattle Times, where she specializes in coverage of Indian Country, natural history, and regional environmental news. She is also the author of two books, Washington: The Spirit of the Land, about landscapes of Washington, and Breaking Ground, published in May, 2009 about the inadvertent discovery of one of the largest, oldest Indian villages ever discovered in Washington State. She believes good writing begins with deep observation, and richly attentive presence in the moment.
Spokane author Jack Nisbet writes about the intersection of human and natural history. His books include Sources of the River, Purple Flat Top, Visible Bones, and The Mapmaker's Eye. His latest work is The Collector: David Douglas and the Natural History of the Pacific Northwest.
Susan Zwinger is a widely acclaimed writer and teacher. A poet and nonfiction writer, who keeps elaborate illustrated journals, she has written The Hanford Reach, The Last Wild Edge, Stalking the Ice Dragon, Still Wild, Always Wild, and co-authored Women in Wilderness. She is currently teaching for the Whidbey Island Writers’ Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts in creative nonfiction, Colorado College, The Nature Conservancy, and the Yellowstone National Park Institute (Poetry and Ecology).
Posted by: David Williams, Education
April 20, 2009
Get outside and write something every day!
Posted by: David Williams
“I am grateful and happy. The workshop blew the top off of my head,” was one comment heard at the Burke seminar called Environmental Writer’s Workshop: Inspire, Observe, Inhabit. The April 11, all-day program brought together three local writers, Lyanda Haupt, Jourdan Keith, and Coll Thrush, to discuss writing and the relationship between people and place in the urban landscape. Joining them were 42 participants from around Puget Sound.
The day began at the Burke with a discussion where the instructors shared stories about their writing and inspiration. We learned that Coll has a goal to “disorient people;” that Lyanda “witnesses stories through animal tracks and song;” and that Jourdan has “landscape tattoed inside me.” A lively, thought-provoking conversation explored the difference between environmental writing and classic nature writing, along with history, race, and making connections. Following the talk, participants worked with one instructor both in and outside of the museum.
Keeping with the goal of getting everyone out into the environment, the workshop moved to the Center for Urban Horticulture (CUH) for the afternoon. Again, the participants worked with one instructor, each of whom took a different approach. Jourdan used haiku and haibun, a combination of haiku and prose that focuses on everyday experiences. A highlight of Lyanda’s class was considering one’s quirks as a way to inform one’s writing. Coll took a longer approach, asking participants to think about writings about the CUH property by surveyors from the 1860s and from Japanese truck farmers from the 1920s. The workshop ended with several participants sharing what they had written during the day.
The program was made possible through the Rebecca S. and Robert M. Benton Endowed Fund. Planning is already underway for next year’s workshop encouraged in part by one participant’s final thought, “Get outside and write something every day!”
“I am grateful and happy. The workshop blew the top off of my head,” was one comment heard at the Burke seminar called Environmental Writer’s Workshop: Inspire, Observe, Inhabit. The April 11, all-day program brought together three local writers, Lyanda Haupt, Jourdan Keith, and Coll Thrush, to discuss writing and the relationship between people and place in the urban landscape. Joining them were 42 participants from around Puget Sound.The day began at the Burke with a discussion where the instructors shared stories about their writing and inspiration. We learned that Coll has a goal to “disorient people;” that Lyanda “witnesses stories through animal tracks and song;” and that Jourdan has “landscape tattoed inside me.” A lively, thought-provoking conversation explored the difference between environmental writing and classic nature writing, along with history, race, and making connections. Following the talk, participants worked with one instructor both in and outside of the museum.
Keeping with the goal of getting everyone out into the environment, the workshop moved to the Center for Urban Horticulture (CUH) for the afternoon. Again, the participants worked with one instructor, each of whom took a different approach. Jourdan used haiku and haibun, a combination of haiku and prose that focuses on everyday experiences. A highlight of Lyanda’s class was considering one’s quirks as a way to inform one’s writing. Coll took a longer approach, asking participants to think about writings about the CUH property by surveyors from the 1860s and from Japanese truck farmers from the 1920s. The workshop ended with several participants sharing what they had written during the day.
The program was made possible through the Rebecca S. and Robert M. Benton Endowed Fund. Planning is already underway for next year’s workshop encouraged in part by one participant’s final thought, “Get outside and write something every day!”
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