Wendell Berry will deliver the 17th Annual Edward & Nancy Dodge Lecture in Baltimore, MD on December 8, 2016. The lecture will be entitled "The Thought of Limits in a Prodigal Age."
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Renowned writer Wendell Berry visited Centre College Monday night to speak for a crowd of several hundred at the Norton Center.
Berry, an 82-year-old farmer and environmental activist who has authored dozens of works over the course of more than five decades, read a pair of his works and fielded a handful of questions during the hour-long event.
Berry read one story that examined the lives of family farmers who earn a kind of freedom caring for their small plots of land, even as industrialization consumes more and more of the world around them.
Berry’s second piece was actually written prior to the first one, and focused on the frugal spending habits of the same rural farm families. It presented the idea that who people are cannot be represented by economic principles.
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James Rebanks wandered into the literary landscape in 2015 with the release of his memoir, “The Shepherd’s Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape.” A sheep farmer from Matterdale, England, Rebanks’ prose about his simple yet fulfilling lifestyle touched many people. His book received rave reviews and landed on The New York Times’ best-seller list.
Practicing a simple life also is a mantra Kentucky author, poet and farmer Wendell Berry lives by, and on Wednesday, Berry will get a chance to interview Rebanks at a free event held at the Louisville Free Public Library. Presented in partnership with Carmichael’s Bookstore, the evening should be a lively one, as two powerful writers discuss camaraderie, tradition and the poetry of rural life.
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Renowned and beloved writer and activist Wendell Berry comes to Centre College in November as a Humana/Grace Doherty Library scholar.
Berry will give a convocation address and read from his work on Monday, Nov. 14 at 7:30 p.m. in Newlin Hall in the Norton Center for the Arts. The convocation is free and open to the public with no tickets required. The following day, Berry will discuss his work in a more informal gathering in the Doherty Library’s J. David Grissom Reading Room at 11:30 a.m.
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Carmichael’s Bookstore presents New York Times bestseller James Rebanks
interviewed by Kentucky’s own Wendell Berry
Louisville Main Library, Wednesday, November 9, 7 PMIn his critically acclaimed and New York Times bestselling memoir The Shepherd’s Life, rural shepherd James Rebanks revealed a lifestyle kept alive by a few hundred farming families in the Lake District of England to readers around the globe. In the visually rich follow-up, The Shepherd’s View: Modern Photographs from an Ancient Landscape, Rebanks uses his camera lens and nimble prose to invite readers onto the land where his family has worked as shepherds for generations.
Wendell Berry, Kentucky’s own beloved author, poet, and farmer, will interview Rebanks about his books and experiences. Join us as these two powerful writers discuss camaraderie, tradition, and the poetry of rural life.
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The Circe Institute Winter Regional Conference announces:
We are excited to announce that Mr. Wendell Berry, a noted novelist, poet, farmer, and essayist (and recipient of the 2012 Russell Kirk Paideia Prize), will be joining us at our 2017 Winter Regional Conference to read an original story.
This event will take place on January 20, 2017 at 8:00 PM in the Seelbach Hotel in Louisville, KY. A limited number of tickets are available to the public.
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The Schumacher Center has announced that the October 22 conversation between Wendell Berry and Wes Jackson (The Land Institute) has been sold out. But the event will be filmed, so watch The Schumacher Center for news of that.
The Center has described the event as follows:
On Saturday October 22nd at 7:00 pm, award winning author Wendell Berry and The Land Institute's co-founder Wes Jackson will share the stage at the historic Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in the heart of Great Barrington, Massachusetts. They will hold a conversation about the 50-Year Farm Bill, their work, and their long friendship and collaboration in support of rural communities.
The occasion is the 36th Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures, a tradition that Mr. Berry and Mr. Jackson launched when they spoke to a full house in October of 1981 on the theme of People, Land, and Community. Over the years the Annual Schumacher Lectures have provided a platform for some of the most powerful voices for an economics that supports both people and planet – voices that include Jane Jacobs, Bill McKibben, Winona LaDuke, Van Jones, Judy Wicks, and Otto Scharmer.
Much has changed since the first Annual Lectures. The promise of the global economy has faded in the face of ever-greater wealth inequality and environmental degradation. There is a groundswell of interest in building a new economy that is just and recognizes planetary limits. All of us at the Schumacher Center for a New Economics are delighted that Wendell Berry and Wes Jackson have accepted our invitation to come back and share their perspectives on how far we have come, where we are, and where we believe we should go next.
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Wendell Berry doesn't think many people take farmers seriously.
"Farmers may be the last group even liberals laugh at," Berry, a nationally recognized poet, novelist, farmer and environmental activist, said Sunday morning at the Prairie Festival at The Land Institute.
"But no one, no matter how exalted, doesn't depend on farmers."
Delivering the Strachan Donnelley Lecture on Conservation and Restoration, Berry said farmers have been hindered by government subsidies and overproduction in response to market forces."Those constraints and incentives reward poor work and are a waste of resources," he said.
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Wendell Berry, sheep farmer from Kentucky, is arguably the poet laureate of agriculture. Seminal writings like “The Unsettling of America”, “The Gift of Good Land”, and “The Mad Farmer Poems” have helped shape a generation of farmers with a philosophy and practice of sustainability. The Just Us! Centre for Small Farms, in cooperation with Gaspereau Press, and The Box of Delights Bookshop look to celebrate the works of Wendell Berry.
Join Andrew Steeves, Shalan Joudry, Ed Belzer, and the folks from Conscious Catering (Roberto Guelli & Anke Kungl) as we celebrate rurality and local economies via music, culture, food and community.
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The film isn’t preachy, it’s showing you that there are people willing to do what is manageable, and what is best for the land and their families. They describe the desire for farming coming from the passion of successive generations. There are a lot of threats to this way of life, some unavoidable without a change in our culture. But if anyone can persuade us, Wendell Berry might be the one. THE SEER is a thoughtful documentary, told with the same directness as Berry’s writing, with enough hope that you want to see and know and be more.
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