CONFERENCE PROGRAM
FRIDAY, MARCH 18
11 AM Registration
Conference registration opens. Pick up Conference packet if pre-registered.
Dance Palace Community Center. After 1 PM, registration will take place at Toby’s Feed Barn.
12 – 12:30 PM Lunch
Sign in for your field trip, and have a bowl of soup. Dance Palace Community Center.
1 - 4 PM Field Trips
All must carpool from the Dance Palace to West Marin farms, wetlands, and wilderness areas. Various locations.
5 - 7 PM Artist Reception
Meet gallery & public art installation artists.
No-host bar. Music. Toby’s Feed Barn Gallery.
6 - 7:30 PM Paella Dinner
Catered by Paella del Reyes. Toby’s Feed Barn.
Dessert Visuals, Rivers of California, Tim Palmer, photographer
7:30 – 9 PM Opening Session
Welcome by Steve Costa, Point Reyes Books owner & GOH Director
Opening remarks by Brenda Hillman & Robert Hass, Conference co-chairs
Tapping the Source: Water & the Language of Life with Robert Hass, Malcolm Margolin, Tom Farber and Claire Peaslee. Conversation Moderator: Wendy Johnson, Toby’s Feed Barn.
SATURDAY, MARCH 19
8 – 9 AM Optional Early-morning Activity
Ken Otter and Taira Restar facilitate altar-building and art-making,
The Dance Palace
9 – 11 AM Saturday Morning Opening Session
Rivers & Journeys with William Least Heat-Moon, Philip Fradkin, Eddy L. Harris, Tim Palmer. Conversation Moderator: Malcolm Margolin The Dance Palace
11:15 – 12:15 PM Saturday Mid-morning Session
River of Words with Robert Hass & Pamela Michael. Readings by children from the River of Words program and local children. The Dance Palace
12:30 – 2 PM Lunch
Eat with writers in small group settings. Various locations.
2:30 - 4:00 PM Saturday Afternoon Session
Mixed Metaphors & Troubled Waters with Jonathan Skinner, Evelyn Reilly, Peter Gleick, Julia Whitty. Conversation Moderator : Brenda Hillman The Dance Palace
5 - 6 PM Artist Reception
Gallery Route One
6 – 7:30 PM Italian Dinner
Catered by Christian Caiazzo of Osteria Stellina. Toby’s Feed Barn.
Dessert Visuals, The Left Coast, California on the Edge, Alex Fradkin, photographer
8 – 9:30 PM
Water, Words & Music A unique gathering with Brenda Hillman, Robert Hass, Michael Ondaatje, Linda Spalding, William Least Heat-Moon, Eddy L. Harris.
SUNDAY, MARCH 20
8 – 9:30 AM Optional Early-morning Activity
Ken Otter and Taira Restar facilitate an intergenerational dance performance at a nearby ocean beach. Location to be announced.
10 AM – noon Gathering on the Landscape– Giacomini Wetlands Barn (across from The Dance Palace)
Storytelling by West Marin folks whose lives are inextricably connected to water.
12:15 – 1:15 PM Lunch on your own
Pick up lunch at a local eatery and take a self-guided walking tour of the GOH public art installations located throughout Point Reyes Station. Free maps available at Point Reyes Books and at the Conference.
1:30 – 3 PM Free Public Event
The Writing Life discussion with Conference authors. Moderator Brenda Hillman The Dance Palace