<head><style>body{font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:#ffffff;color:black;}p{margin:0px;}</style></head><body><br><blockquote style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid">From: Cambridge Forum <camforum@earthlink.net>
<br>Sent: Oct 12, 2011 3:45 PM
<br>To: "director@cambridgeforum.org" <director@cambridgeforum.org>
<br>Subject: 10/20 Wendell Berry/Bill McKibben at Cambridge Forum
<br><br><zzzhead><style>body{font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:#ffffff;color:black;}p{margin:0px;}</style></zzzhead><zzzbody><zzzhead><style>body{font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:#ffffff;color:black;}p{margin:0px;}</style></zzzhead>Cambridge Forum <br>3 Church Street ● Cambridge, MA 02138<br><blockquote style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid"><camforum@earthlink.net><director@cambridgeforum.org><zzzbody><font color="#000000"><font size="2"><font face="arial,sans-serif">617-495-2727<br>email: director@cambridgeforum.org<br>www.cambridgeforum.org<br><br>Release October 12, 2011<br><br>PEN NEW ENGLAND AND CAMBRIDGE FORUM<br><br>PRESENT <br><br>WENDELL BERRY<br> <br>On THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2011 at 7 p.m, join PEN NEW ENGLAND and CAMBRIDGE FORUM to honor poet, WENDELL BERRY, as he receives PEN NEW ENGLAND’s annual Howard Zinn “People Speak” Award. WENDELL BERRY will discuss civil disobedience in defense of the environment and read from his poetry. He will be joined by environmental activist, BILL MCKIBBEN, to talk about their recent arrests: MCKIBBEN in D.C. protesting the proposed pipe line bringing Canadian tar sands oil to a refinery on the U.S. Gulf and BERRY protesting Kentucky mountain top removal. Boston Globe op-ed columnist RENEE LOTH will moderate the public discussion that follows.<br><br>WENDELL BERRY born in Henry County, Kentucky, in 1934. He earned a bachelor’s degree in 1957 from the University of Kentucky and masters in 1958. In 1958, he received a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Sanford. The author of more than 40 works of fiction, non fiction and poetry, Wendell Berry has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (1962), the Vachel Lindsay Prize for Poetry (1962), National Institute for Writing Award (1971). His books include the novel, Hannah Coulter (2004), the essay collection, Citizenship Papers (2005), Given Poems (2005), The Way of Ignorance (2006) and The Mad Farmer Poems (2008). He lives and works with his wife, Tanya Berry, on their farm in Port Royal, Kentucky.<br><br>BILL MCKIBBEN, born in Lexington, Massachusetts, is a Harvard College graduate. Author of a dozen books about the environment, McKibben is the founder of 350.org which coordinated 15,000 grass roots rallies in 189 countries since 2009. His book, The End of Nature (1989), serialized in The New Yorker, is widely seen as the first book that successfully communicated the scientific fact of climate change to a large audience of non-scientists. He has received 3 honorary degrees, and in 2011, he was elected a fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.<br><br>RENEE LOTH is former editor of The Boston Globe editorial page, a regular op ed columnist for The Boston Globe and a Fellow the Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center for the Press and Politics.<br><br>PEN-New England is one of five regional branches of PEN America Center, which in turn is part of International PEN, the only worldwide organization of writing professionals and the world’s first human rights organization. PEN’s mission is to promote literacy and a culture of literature, and to defend free expression everywhere. For more information, contact pen-ne@lesley.edu.<br><br>Cambridge Forum is recorded and edited for public radio broadcast. Edited CDs are available to the public by contacting 617-495-2727. Select forums can be viewed in their entirety on demand by visiting our website at www.cambridgeforum.org and clicking on the Forum Network at WGBH. <br></font></font></font></zzzbody><pre>
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Cambridge Forum
3 Church Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617-495-2727
email: mailto:director@cambridgeforum.org
website: http://www.cambridgeforum.org
"Bringing People together to talk again . . ."
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