[van-announce] Necessary Voices Events September - Betty Krawczyk, Patrick Condon....

[Thomas Christopher Hicks]

Here are the Necessary Voices Society Events for September. Please forward to people you think would be interested.

There are 3 categories.
a. Necessary Voices Series at the VPL - 
b. Philosophers' Cafe at the Grind and Gallery on Main
c. Rachel's Song weekly radio programme on CiTR 101.9FM

Information on all events: rachelssong at lycos.com

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a. Necessary Voices Series – Fall 2002 Schedule

All Events are held in the Alice MacKay Room of the Central Branch of the Vancouver Public Library from 7:30 to 9:30 pm. Admission is free.

September 10, 2002 Patrick Condon – “Curbs are evil!”

Imagine a neighbourhood where houses are affordable, transit accessible, commercial services available, and the beauty of the natural world is preserved and enhanced. Patrick Condon is the driving force behind a project based on that vision. Find out what stands in the way of creating more such communities and how people can help change that.

Patrick Condon has published widely and lectured at many North American universities on topics ranging from sustainable community design to landscape perception theory. He currently holds the James Taylor Chair in Landscape and Liveable Environments at UBC.

September 24, 2002 Betty Krawcyzk – “Lock Me Up or Let Me Go: The Protests, Arrest and Trial of an Environmental Activist”

Betty will discuss her dramatic participation in the Elaho Valley struggle and her very public arrest, trial and sentencing.  Her story is also one of relationships between generations, and of one extraordinary woman's struggle to take her place as an "elder" in our society. Betty will also talk about her complex relationship with her lively mother, who ignited Betty's own desire to become an activist.  At the end of her presentation,
Betty will dedicate a tap-dance routine to all the women she met while in prison.

Betty Krawczyk was raised in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and emigrated to Canada in 1966. In bringing up her children, Betty was pulled into the battle against segregated schools in Louisiana, protested the Viet Nam War (which ultimately lead to her move to Canada), joined the battle for civil rights, women's rights, and finally, as she was ready to "retire" in peaceful Clayoquot Sound, the fight for the democratic right to protect her country's wilderness. On September 15, 2000 she was sentenced to one year in jail without parole for blockading a logging road in the Elaho River Valley. During her stay at the prison, she completed the manuscript for "Lock me Up or Let me Go" (Raincoast, 2002).

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b. Philosophers' Cafe at the Grind and Gallery 4124 Main Street, Friday Sept. 20 7-9 PM. Admission $5.00

Dirty Beauty. Does knowing that it is enhanced by smog make a sunset less beautiful? Does knowing that purple loosestrife is a alien invader make the view of pond and meadow less charming?  This eco-philosopher's cafe investigates the relevance of ecology to natural beauty.

Guest - Dominic McIver Lopes is Associate Professor of Philosophy at UBC, the author of books and papers on aesthetics, the philosophy of art, and philosophy of mind, and co-editor of the Routledge Companion to Aesthetics. For more information, visit http://www.philosophy.ubc.ca/lopes.


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c. Rachel's Song on CiTR 101.9 FM

September 4 - 5 to 6:30 PM - Roswell - The Unsolved Mystery - Hoax, Truth or Cover-up

September 11 - 5 to 6:30 PM - The Petrified Forest - A park tour and re-broadcast of the radio version of the movie with Humphrey Bogart.

September 18 - 5 to 6:30 PM - Carlsbad Caverns, White Sands and cancer research

September 25 - 5 to 6:30 PM - The Great Sand Dunes and Dark Skies Society


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Thomas Christopher Hicks
Necessary Voices Society/Rachel's Song, CiTR 101.9 FM 
www.necessaryvoices.org




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