Artists
Sandra Bierman
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Sandra Bierman, grandmother of five, was born in Brooklyn, New York, but from age 4 grew up in Oklahoma, Texas and Maryland. Her father was a Swedish immigrant and her mother a Texas farm girl. She was nurtured as a child by her part-Cherokee grandmother. Art scholarships began at age 11. Sandra is married to retired physics professor Arthur Bierman, and they have lived in Boulder, Colorado since 1988. Her oils are widely collected and are published and distributed worldwide. Influences: 16th Century Italian masters, Mexican masters, Chinese and Japanese classical art.
Future event date to be announced
Steve Phelan
Description:
Place: Quaker Meeting House on Marks St.
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Program:
7:30 Presentation: “River, City, Internet: Walt Whitman Joins Forces with Gar Alperovitz”
8:30 “Whitman, Neruda, and Cardenal,” a bilingual poetry reading with Latino musical interludes
Steve Phelan is Professor of English Emeritus at Rollins College and author of the recent book, Song of Wekiva: Florida's Wild River and Its Democratic Vista, a tribute to Walt Whitman. Drawing on three decades of teaching environmental literature, this collection of his nature writing, prose poems, and historical essays celebrates the river with the joy and optimism of the poet of Mannahatta. It has the feel of a native American presence in the swamps and uplands, springs and forests of Wekiva.
The book also demonstrates how a small number of nineteen, incorporated as The Friends of the Wekiva River, have been able to harness the energies of many citizens and groups to build a thriving river community. The Wekiva is now the text-book case of how to preserve thousands of acres in your river basin and how to create important state laws to protect and restore it all.
Professor Phelan has recently joined his local Quaker Friends in the Mayors for Peace program to abolish nuclear weapons by 2010. He is currently writing about the original internet of biochemistry, especially the nitrogen cycle. He hopes to get the new internet generation to take their biochemistry to heart and then to fathom the potential horror of a single nuclear explosion in any of the world's great urban centers.
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