Strawberry Creek Walk at Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival/UCBerkeley

Poetry, talk, and a walk along beautiful Strawberry Creek through UC Berkeley and its underground path through downtown Berkeley to the Watershed Festival at Civic Center Park. Led by poet/eco-educator Chris Olander, with readings along the way by poets galore, natural and cultural history by Wholly H2O's Dr. Elzabeth Dougherty and Chris James, and Eco-Dance in the Eucalyptus Grove.

Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival is co-founded by Robert Hass, US Poet Laureate 1995-97, and is a collaboration of Poetry Flash and the Ecology Center/Berkeley Farmers' Market. It also provides a platform for emerging voices while raising awareness about the powerful role of ecological themes in poetry.

As part of this free festival, we’ll take a poetry/dance/and history tour of a small section of Strawberry Creek on campus.

Some highlights of the tour will include:

• What is a watershed?
• Strawberry Creek - Used and Abused
• Ohlone villages and local migration within the watershed
• Historical Ecology of the East Bay
• Early Spanish explorers and land grants
• Eucalyptus and Frank C - Havens come to Berkeley
• Birds galore
• Trash and stormwater impact

Check out the Pocketsights App for a deeper dive on a longer tour - available 24/7 for your use.

When: Saturday, October 5, 2024

Where: Meet in Cypress Grove, often called Redwood Grove (southeast corner of Oxford at Center, near the metal World Globe sculpture as you enter campus).

Time: 10 AM - 12 PM

Host or Publisher Wholly H2O