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Wild at Heart
THE GRASS IS GREENER
» Thursday 25 October 2007 | 4:30pm
» Mosaic Books, 411 Bernard Avenue
An informal afternoon hour showcasing the ideas and inspirations featured in Okanagan Arts. Join us as internationally-acclaimed author Don Gayton reveals his passion for gardening and reads selections from his new book Interwoven Wild: An Ecologist Loose in the Garden
» This is a free event. Refreshments will be available at a modest cost.
» Seating is limited, please reserve yours HERE
Sponsored by the Arts Council of the Central Okanagan, Wood Lake Books, UBCO-FCCS, and in support of Project Literacy Kelowna
Award-winning Ecologist Speaks from the Heart of his Foliage.
Everyone wants to be green or get green these days - but it's the gardeners in our world who make the most important decisions about what kind of future we are going to share. At the personal level, it is they who first question the use of pesticides and fertilizers, who determine what's natural and needed, and who dare to dream of communities in balance with nature.
This is no metaphor, this is real life. Okanagan Institute presents internationally-acclaimed author Don Gayton at Mosaic Books this Thursday, October 25 as the Re:Imagine Series continues with Wild at Heart: An Ecologist's Green Reality.
Gayton will be reading from his just-published book - Interwoven Wild: An Ecologist Loose in the Garden, published by Thistledown Press. The book explores both the serious and the humourous. With his powerful and lyrical prose style, this Okanagan ecologist explores the inter-reliance of species, soil fertility, and weed invasions. He speculates on gardeners - their need to landscape, to purchase specialized tools, to use (or shun) chemicals, and the art they bring to the enterprise. Interwoven into the book are works of painters, writers and landscape architects who have each lent their particular gifts to the soil.
"I've heard Don Gayton speak many times and he has a way of pulling out the stories that make us both laugh and think," says Okanagan Institute head Robert MacDonald. "His passion for his subject is unmistakeable. We can all learn from his observations."
A grassland specialist and ecologist for FORREX in the Okanagan, Gayton is the author of The Wheatgrass Mechanism, Landscapes of the Interior and Kokanee. Winner of the Canadian Science Writers Journalism Award and the U.S. National Outdoor Book Award, his work has appeared in Canadian Geographic magazine, Equinox, and Western Living.
Wild at Heart: An Ecologist's Green Reality is a free event, and takes place at Mosaic Books, Kelowna's independent bookstore. It's presented by the Okanagan Institute in association with the magazines of Wheat King Publishing - Okanagan Arts, Okanagan Home, and Okanagan Q.
Re:Imagine is sponsored by the Arts Council of the Central Okanagan, Wood Lake Books, UBCO Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, and supports the work of Project Literacy Kelowna.
Where inquiring minds gather. Okanagan Insitute at Mosaic Books
A hearty feast of presentations, workshops and seminars that celebrate the works and ideas of leading Okanagan creative individuals, organizations and companies. Produced by the Okanagan institute in association with the magazines of Wheat King Publishing: Okanagan Arts, Okanagan Home, and Okanagan Q.
Re:IMAGINE is a cultural tonic that refreshes the mind. Join us at Mosaic Books after work on Thursdays for a free hour of stimulation that will get your synapses tingling with new ideas and fresh images. Designed for inquiring minds looking for, among other things, the wild blue yonder.
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