Join us in Hartford for a community discussion on the urgency of climate change, led by Susan Hoffman Fishman, a West Hartford-based environmental artist and writer, alongside former CTWAC Executive Director Felicity Harley. The conversation will refer to selections from American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau concerning our impact on climate change and our responsibility to our environment.
The Details
When: Wednesday, June 12th at 6:00PM
Where: Lobby at Connecticut Public | 1049 Asylum Ave, Hartford CT
Tickets: $15 for non-members | No charge for members* | Get tickets here
Dinner and refreshments will be provided. Space is limited.
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You’re invited to celebrate 100 years of the World Affairs Council of Connecticut
Throughout the year, we’re hosting a series of events with some of the key supporters, members, and partners who have made a significant impact on the history of the Council. This event is a part of this community-inspired series in honor of our 100th anniversary.
Featuring
Susan Hoffman Fishman is a mixed-media painter, environmental artist and arts writer who has exhibited widely throughout the United States. Articles, interviews and reviews of Fishman’s work have appeared in Burning Worlds: Climate Change in Art & Literature, a publication of the Chicago Review of Books; The Washington Post, Art Spiel, Sci/Art Magazine, The Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts, The Hartford Courant, Artists and Climate Change and numerous others. Read more about Susan here.
Felicity Harley is a published journalist, writer, and a poet. She has also had a long career in assisting and founding a variety of arts and educationally focused nonprofits. Until 2013 she was the Executive Director of the World Affairs Council of Connecticut and is currently President of the Board of the Community Foundation for Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Over the years Felicity has published articles and poetry in various chapbooks and publications. This year her five book science fiction series Until This Last will be published by a small UK publisher. You can find out more about her at her website.
About the Book
American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau
“’Each advance in environmental practice in our nation’s history…was preceded by a great book” – Bill McKibben, editor of American Earth.
As America and the world grapple with the consequences of global environmental change, writer and activist Bill McKibben offers this unprecedented, inspiring, and timely anthology gathering the best and most significant American environmental writing from the last two centuries.
Classics of the environmental imagination—the essays of Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, and John Burroughs; Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac; Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring—are set alongside an emerging activist movement, revealed by newly uncovered reports of pioneering campaigns for conservation, passages from landmark legal opinions and legislation, and searing protest speeches. Purchase American Earth here.
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