Prairie Festival 30

September 26-28, 2008

“Restoration and Conservation” In honor of Strachan Donnelley
The 2008 Prairie Festival, September 26-28, 2008, will begin with a barn dance on Friday evening. The caller this year will be Jill Allen. Returning musicians Frank and Chris Martin and Ann Zimmerman will be joined by Lauralyn Bodle and Matt Kirby. Campers and other early arrivals may gather at The Land Institute’s Big Barn to visit. Following the barn dance you’re welcome to visit and make music in the Big Barn or around the bonfire — amateur or professional, bring your instruments and voices and join the fun.

The Land Institute’s scientists will give a research update and founder Wes Jackson will present his annual inspirational. You’ll enjoy the homegrown tunes of Ann Zimmerman. And you’ll not be alone in the wilderness: People who celebrate The Land Institute’s Prairie Festival share a caring about sustainable living and our land, and they say these warm people are the best thing about attending. We invite you to be part of it at The Land Institute during Prairie Festival 30, September 26-28, 2008.

We hope you’ll come and bring along friends. We want to make The Land Institute’s audience bigger and younger. It’s time to add new members to the choir.
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Open throughout Prairie Festival:

Art gallery — Photos by Terry Evans, Red Barn
Bookstore — Red Barn
Drinks & food — Prairieland Market, Red Barn
Presentations — Big Barn

Friday, September 26

4:00	Registration (office driveway). Camping setup.
6:00	Gathering, Land Institute intern alumni and current staff.
8:00	Barn dance (Big Barn)

Saturday, September 27

7:30	Registration/Bookstore open. (Red Barn)
8:30	Introduction
9:00	Staff members Cindy Cox, Lee DeHaan, Jerry Glover, Nancy Jackson – Report from The Land Institute, “Education, Public Policy and Research”
10:00	Lt. Governor Mark Parkinson, Curt Meine, Wes Jackson, “About the Festival”
11:00	Don Worster — “Donnelley Lecture on Restoration and Conservation”
12:00	Lunch
1:30	Terry Evans, art exhibit “Prairie Scrolls,” discussion; Joan Jackson, Participate in The Land Institute
2:00	Dana Beach, topic to be announced
3:00	Barbara Kingsolver and Steven Hopp
4:15	Curt Meine, Conn Nugent, Doug Tompkins, panel discussion
6:00	Dinner Catered dinner of Kansas-grown food prepared by Donna Prizgintas, chef to Hollywood celebrities, for those who pay in advance

Sunday, September 28

7:30	Bird & Prairie Walk with Jerry Glover and John Mai (assemble at Land Institute office)
8:00	Registration/Bookstore opens (Red Barn)
9:00	Ann Zimmerman sings
10:00	Angus Wright (topic to be announced)
11:00	Wes Jackson “The Fifty-year Farm Bill-Perennializing Policy and the Landscape”
12:00	Adjournment

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Presenter Bios

	Dana Beach, founder and director of the South Carolina Coastal Conservation League. The League has been a pioneer in the field of land conservation and growth management, having successfully protected the South Carolina coast from factory hog farms, rogue interstates, errant water and sewer lines and various manifestations of urban sprawl. He is the author of the Pew Ocean Commission report “Coastal Sprawl: the Effects of Urban Design on Aquatic Ecosystems.”
	Terry Evans, Chicago, Illinois. Land Institute Arts Associate. One-person shows at the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Museum of Natural History and The Field Museum, among others. Guggenheim Fellowship recipient. Her photographs are part of permanent collections at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and others. Teaches photography at Columbia College, Chicago. Several books include Disarming the Prairie and Revealing Chicago: An Aerial Portrait; an exhibition in Chicago’s Millennium Park in summer 2005. Currently working on University of Kansas Spencer Museum of Art exhibition about Greenland ice sheet.
	Steven Hopp, professor, Emory & Henry College. Steven teaches environmental studies and conducts research in bioacoustics and the natural history of vireos. He co-authored the book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle which won the 2008 James Beard Foundation Award for writing on food, with Barbara Kingsolver and Camille Kingsolver.
	Wes Jackson, president and founder of The Land Institute, is the author of several books including New Roots for Agriculture and Becoming Native to This Place. He was a 1990 Pew Conservation Scholar, in 1992 became a MacArthur Fellow, and in 2000 received the Right Livelihood Award (called the “alternative Nobel prize”).
	Barbara Kingsolver, author. Barbara Kingsolver’s twelve books of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction include the novels The Bean Trees, The Poisonwood Bible, and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, which she published with co-authors Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver. Translated into more than 20 languages, her work has won a devoted worldwide readership and many awards, including the National Humanities Medal.
	Curt Meine, Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin, is Senior Fellow with the Aldo Leopold Foundation, Director of Conservation Biology and History with the Center for Humans and Nature, and Associate Adjunct Professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology. He has authored several books, including Aldo Leopold: His Life and Work and Correction Lines: Essays on Land, Leopold, and Conservation.
	Mark Parkinson, lieutenant governor of Kansas. A successful businessman and former legislator, Mark Parkinson is a native Kansan who grew up in Wichita. He currently serves as the co-chair of the Kansas Energy Council and chair of the Kansas Wind Working Group. In 2007 he launched Volunteer Kansas to assist in connecting volunteers to service organizations and also serves on the Kansas Mentors Leadership Council in addition to leading the BEST efforts, the Governor’s budget savings initiative.
	Donna Prizgintas is a chef and spokesperson in the natural products industry. She cooks and writes in support of a tradition of family meals created from seasonally fresh, locally grown, organic ingredients. In her business, Someone’s in the Kitchen with Donna, she has been a private chef to many Hollywood celebrities.
	Doug Tompkins, businessman, athlete, and designer, environmental activist, conservationist. He has founded several businesses, of which the North Face and Esprit are best known. In the late 1980s he turned his efforts to establishing the Foundation for Deep Ecology and the Conservation Land Trust, both located in California. He and his wife, Kristine, currently live in South America, working on land conservation projects in Chile and Argentina.
	Donald Worster, Ph.D., Lawrence, Kansas. Hall Distinguished Professor of American History, Department of History, University of Kansas. Professor Worster won the Bancroft Prize for Dust Bowl — The Southern Plains in the 1930s, and authored Nature’s Economy — A History of Ecological Ideas, Rivers of Empire, Under Western Skies, and The Wealth of Nature.
	Angus Wright, Ph.D., Sacramento, California. Professor Emeritus, Environmental Studies at California State University, Sacramento. Author of To Inherit the Earth: The Brazilian Landless Movement in the Creation of a New Brazil (2003) and The Death of Ramon Gonzalez; The Modern Agricultural Dilemma (1990). He has served as Chair of Environmental Studies CSUS, president of the board of Food First! and Pesticide Action Network and member of independent citizen review panel of Inter-American Development Bank.
	Ann Zimmerman sings the prairie into universal language and carries you away on unforgettable journeys–one woman, one voice, one stage presence. Her Kansas style has taken her across the country, with songs that tell stories and paint portraits, brilliantly colored and unexpected. Her music celebrates life, especially life on the windy plains.

Registration

 
• Download 2008 Registration Form
• Click here for Visitor Information

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Visit the website for more details!

 
• Browsing at the bookstore for books, CDs, t-shirts — northeast end of the Red Barn
• Order audio tape recordings of Prairie Festival talks from Perpetual Motion Unlimited — south end of the Red Barn
• All sessions in the “Big Barn” unless otherwise noted.
• Please do not bring pets or camcorders
• Parents are responsible for the safety and behavior of children. We suggest you arrange baby-sitting co-ops.
• Sorry, no refunds on registration payments due to processing time and cost.

Items to bring:

 
• Invitation/program
• Musical instruments and songs
• All-weather footwear and jackets. Most activities are in open-air facilities and walkways may be muddy. Expect every kind of weather, often in the same day.

Camping:

 
• You are welcome to camp on our grounds Friday and Saturday nights of Prairie Festival weekend.
• Please arrive before dark (first come, first served).
• Camping area is primitive. No campers, trailers, or RVs.

Food:

 
• Saturday’s catered dinner will be vegetarian optional (but not vegan), available only with your prepaid registration..
• Food and drinks will be available from the Prairieland Market during most of the Festival at the south end of the Red Barn.
• Lunch Saturday will be available for purchase from the Prairieland Market at the south end of the Red Barn.