STEM Ed Announcement: MONADNOCK LITERARY & ARTS FESTIVAL

[Morton Sternheim <mort@k12s.phast.umass.edu>]

This is not a UMass program.
Contact information is below.
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MONADNOCK LITERARY & ARTS FESTIVAL

The Monadnock Literary and Arts Festival is being held in Marlborough, NH
September 18th - 20th.  This first year for this workshop features music,
art, food, film and many environmental writers including Sy Montgomery,
author of the national best seller The Good Pig, and Antioch University New
England professor, Tom Wessels, author of Reading the Forested Landscape, as
well as many other noteworthy authors.

The festival will be held at the Colonial-era Glen Brook Farm.  It has a 250
acre campus in view of Mount Monadnock, which was chosen for the focus of
this festival about the importance of a sense of place.  It includes an
active biodynamic farm, pristine forests and trails, and open hayfields.

There will be guided nature hikes, natural foods, and live entertainment. 
The fees are very reasonable.  They offer a 20% discount for teachers! 
Presenter bios, the schedule, and a registration form are available on their
website.  It promises to be a wonderful weekend!

http://glenbrook.org

Schedule  

Friday, Sept. 18:  
2:00pm: Welcome: Twain Braden, Glen Brook Director  
2:30: Howard Mansfield: The Bones of the Earth  
3:15pm: Diane Les Becquets: Three-Dimensional Prose: Subtext in Fiction and
Nonfiction  
3:15pm: Robert Begiebing: Landscape and Memory: A Berkshire Boyhood  
4:00pm: MUSIC and ART in the Barn (hors doeuvres)   
5:00pm: Sy Montgomery: The Good Good Pig  
6:00pm: Reception Supper  
7:00pm: Keynote Presentation: Tom Wessels: Local Grassroot Approaches to a
Sustainable Future  
8:00pm: Keynote Musician: Erica Wheeler:  

Saturday, Sept. 19:  
7:00am: Willow Nilsen: Yoga in the Barn  
9:00am: Tom Wessels: Reading the Forested Landscape: A morning walk around
Glen Brooks historic property  
9:00am: Greg Frux and Janet Morgan: Plein Aire demonstration  
10:30am: Kim Ponders: Getting the Sahara into the Genies Bottle  
10:30am: Rick Carey: The Philosopher Fish  

12:00: MUSICAL LUNCH: (Louise Curran and Bernie Watson)  

2:00pm: Michael Steinberg: Stalking the Ghost Bird  
3:00pm: Katherine Towler: Getting to Know You: Character and Place, Craft
Workshop  
3:00pm: Rick Carey: Their Town: A Work in Progress  
3:45pm: Subway Dreams: A Film by Anna Holtzman, Annerloo Productions  
5:00pm: Chris Camuto: Time and Tide In Acadia  
6:00: Reception Supper  
7:15pm: Lit-Crawl: A literary, musical, and liquid journey (four, 20-minute
presentations)  
8:30 pm: MUSIC: Dan Strauss, Peter Siegel  

Sunday, Sept. 20:  
7:00am: Willow Nilsen: Yoga in the Barn  
9:00am: Fred Taylor: Writing Inner and Outer Landscapes: A journaling
exploration of Glen Brooks forests and fields  
9:00am: Jon Atwood: Birdlife of Glen Brook  
10:30am: Baron Wormser: People and Place: Linking the Two in Prose and
Poetry  
10:30am: Ash Sheehan, Glen Brook Culinary Director: Biodynamic Gardening in
the 21st Century
  
12:00: MUSICAL LUNCH: (Lunatic Fringe)  

1:30pm: Janet Morgan and Greg Frux: Plein Aire workshop  
1:30pm: Ian Ramsey: Giving Voice to Your Place: a Bioregional Approach to
Poetry  
2:30pm: Artist Retrospective: Albert Quigley  
3:00pm: Twain Braden: Ghosts of the Pioneers: American Fatherhood in the Age
of the Dilbert Cubicle