Celebrate Writers, Nature & Community with 100 Thousand Poets for Change, Poetry Flash, and Ecology Center/Berkeley Farmers' Market
10:00 am - Strawberry Creek Walk
Meet at Oxford and Center Streets, Berkeley, in the Redwood Grove (southeast corner of Oxford at Center, near the sculpture of the World Globe as you enter the UC campus). A walk along beautiful Strawberry Creek on the UC Berkeley campus to the Watershed festival led by poet/eco-educator Chris Olander with readings by poet/biologist Maya Khosla, Judy Halebsky, Katherine Hastings, and Bill Vartnaw, with nature commentary on Strawberry Creek by Tim Pine, UC Berkeley, Office of Environment, Health and Safety.
Noon to 4:30 pm - Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival
Festival Main Stage • Martin Luther King, Jr. Civic Center Park • Berkeley
Next to the Berkeley Farmers’ Market, MLK Jr. Way at Center Street, one block west of downtown Berkeley BART