Your Body on the Line?

Julia Butterfly Hill with Rebecca Solnit

Monday, June 2, 2003 | 7:30 - 9:00 | Kresge Auditorium | Free and Open to All

In December 1997, Julia Butterfly Hill, then age 23, climbed up “Luna,” a thousand-year-old redwood in Humboldt County, California, and did not touch ground for two years. Her dangerous and inspiring action protected this ancient redwood and the trees around it. Would you put your body on the line for something you believe in? What might each of us do to protect and celebrate the wild world that is our home? Join us as Bay Area writer Rebecca Solnit discusses these and other questions with Julia Butterfly Hill.

JULIA BUTTERFLY HILL
Julia Butterfly Hill is a writer and activist who founded the Circle of Life Foundation. Her most recent book is One Makes the Difference: Inspiring Actions that Change our World.

REBECCA SOLNIT
Rebecca Solnit is a writer and culture critic. Among her recent books is Wanderlust: A History of Walking, she writes about putting her body on the line at the Nevada Test Site.

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Thursday, 12 November, 2009

New Art+Invention Speaker Series

The Aurora Forum is pleased to join with Stanford Lively Arts and the Stanford Institute on Creativity and the Arts to present a series of conversations on "Art+Invention" with artists who are in residence or visiting the Stanford Campus. Our guests in this series are people who contribute to and illuminate various cultures, expand awareness through new technologies, and probe philosophical questions that are at the heart of humanistic inquiry. This will be fun! Click here for an overview of this exciting new venture.

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