Simulcast: Giving Voice to Nature: with Richard Powers, Robin Wall Kimmerer, and William (Ned) Friedman

Date: 

Monday, March 25, 2019, 7:00pm to 8:15pm

Location: 

Hunnewell Building

SIMULCAST VIEWING: Richard PowersRobin Wall Kimmerer, and Arnold Arboretum Director William “Ned” Friedman will join voices in this guided conversation about trees. Melding readings with discussion; drawing on mystery, lore, and science; they will convey the challenges and rewards of trying to represent non-humans—speaking both for and as the trees. Register early for this animated and enriching convergence of arboreal thinkers.

Free, member-only event. Registration required

Register online or call 617-384-5277.

The live event at our Weld Hill location is filled to capacity. You are registering for a SIMULCAST that will be viewed at the Arboretum's Hunnewell Building at 125 Arborway, Jamaica Plain.

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Richard Powers is the author of twelve novels, most recently The Overstory. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the National Book Award, and he has been a Pulitzer Prize and four-time National Book Critics Circle Award finalist.

Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching of Plants, which has earned Kimmerer wide acclaim, and Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses, which was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing.