Robin Wall Kimmerer And Alice Vincent, Live at Conway Hall

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5x15

艺术

2024-08-02

1 小时 15 分钟
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Due to phenomenal demand, 5x15 has programmed an additional London event with leading author and ecologist Robin Wall Kimmerer. Don't miss the chance to hear this extraordinary writer share her unique perspectives on plants, ecology and the natural world. She will be in conversation with Alice Vincent- author of Rootbound- at Conway Hall on May 30th. Robin Wall Kimmerer's internationally bestselling books, Braiding Sweetgrass and Gathering Moss, not only teach us about the biology of different organisms, but show us other ways of living in the world. It is through celebrating our reciprocal relationship with nature that we can awaken our ecological consciousness, and better protect our planet's gifts. Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She lives in Syracuse, New York, where she is a Professor of Environmental Biology and the founder and director of the Centre for Native Peoples and the Environment. Her current work spans traditional ecological knowledge, moss ecology, outreach to tribal communities and creative writing. Alice Vincent is a writer. Her books include Why Women Grow, Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival and Rootbound, Rewilding a Life. A columnist for The Guardian and The New Statesman, Alice writes for Vogue, The Financial Times and The Times. She is the host of the Why Women Grow and In Haste podcasts and creator of her bi-weekly newsletter, savour.
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  • Five times 15.

  • Gosh, you're all very well behaved, aren't you?

  • Good evening everyone.

  • I'm Alex Vincent and I'm a writer and an author of books including why Women Grow.

  • And I would love to welcome you all to Conway hall for this very special 5x15 event with Robin Wall Kimmerer.

  • Yes.

  • Yes, yes.

  • Five by Fifteen are delighted to host the second event with Robyn after her sellout lecture at Kew Gardens last night.

  • And I have hear word that there were no fewer than two standing ovations.

  • And I think it's fair to say that we're all pretty pleased about it too.

  • I will be speaking with her this evening about her incredible work as a botanist,

  • writer and a thinker.

  • As a person who has truly transformed how people navigate their interactions with the world around them,

  • it gives me great pleasure to introduce Robin.

  • She is a mother, a scientist,

  • a decorated professor and an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation.

  • She is a professor of the Environmental Biology and the founder and director of the center for Native Peoples and the Environment.

  • Robin's work celebrates our reciprocal relationship with nature and shows us how to awaken our ecological consciousness by learning from indigenous ways of knowing.

  • Her internationally best selling books,

  • Braiding Sweetgrass and Gathering Moss not only teach us about the biology of different organisms,