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Terry Tempest Williams: Rejoice! Our Times Are Intolerable
Reading and conversation with writer, educator, conservationist, and activist Terry Tempest Williams
Rejoice! Our Times Are Intolerable
* Tuesday, January 16, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Join The New School at Commonweal host Michael Lerner in person or via webinar for a reading and conversation with writer, educator, conservationist, and activist Terry Tempest Williams.
Terry Tempest Williams
Terry is a writer and educator who focuses on our relationship with the natural world, both ecologically, politically, and spiritually.
She is the author of more than 20 books, including the environmental literature classic, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place. Her most recent books include Erosion: Essays of Undoing; and The Moon Is Behind Uswith Fazal Sheikh.
She is currently writer-in-residence at the Harvard Divinity School and the 2023 recipient of the Thoreau Prize in Literature. She is also a member of the American Academy of Arts & Letters and divides her time between Utah and Massachusetts with her husband, Brooke Williams.
New School at Commonweal host Michael Lerner
Michael is the president and co-founder of Commonweal. His principal work at Commonweal is with the Cancer Help Program, CancerChoices.org, the Omega Resilience Projects, the Collaborative on Health and the Environment, and The New School at Commonweal.
He was the recipient of a MacArthur Prize Fellowship for contributions to public health in 1983 and is author of Choices in Healing: Integrating the Best of Conventional and Complementary Therapies (MIT Press).
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By donation: $20 suggested; no one turned away
Phone: (415) 690-9603
Email: thenewschool@commonweal.org
Additional time info:
11:00 am – 12:30 pm
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