As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, a mother, and a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings—asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass—offer us gifts and lessons, even if we’ve forgotten how to hear their voices. 

“A journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise” – Elizabeth Gilbert

with Rae Griffiths, Teaching Creatures and Casey Beebe, Hitchcock Center
Wednesday, May 23, 7-8:30pm
FREE, Registration appreciated