To Speak for the Trees with Diana Beresford-Kroeger
Canadian botanist, biochemist and visionary Diana Beresford-Kroeger’s startling insights into the hidden life of trees have already sparked a quiet revolution in how we understand our relationship to forests. Now, in a captivating account of how her life led her to these illuminating and crucial ideas, she shows us how forests can not only heal us but save the planet.
Please join us on October 19th and be part of this heart centred event and to hear this remarkable author share her story and insights into why trees matter. Diana’s wisdom for why trees are a viable, achievable solution to climate change is inspiring and hopeful in these critical and heart-wrenching times of droughts, floods and fires. She’ll share the intricate ways in which the health and welfare of every living creature is connected to the global forest.
Diana’s talk will be followed by a book signing.
Books including Diana’s new memoir, To Speak for the Trees: My Life’s Journey from Ancient Celtic Wisdom to a Healing Vision of the Forest will be available for sale at the venue by Another Story.
About Diana Berefsford-Kroeger: Diana is a world-recognized botanist, medical biochemist and author, whose work uniquely combines western scientific knowledge and the traditional concepts of the ancient world. Her books include The Sweetness of a Simple Life, The Global Forest, Arboretum Borealis, Arboretum America, Time Will Tell, and A Garden for Life. Among many honours, Beresford-Kroeger was elected as a fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society in 2011. Her work has inspired artists and writers, as well as leading scientists. She is the author and presenter of a feature documentary, Call of the Forest, and is also at the heart of an upcoming three-part series airing on PBS called The Truth about Trees. Currently she is advocating on behalf of an ambitious global “bioplan” encouraging ordinary people to develop a new relationship with nature and join together to help restore the global forest.
Host: Leslie Fell on behalf of the non-profit Living Ways
https://livingways.org/events/
Sat October 19th, 2019
Doors open 1:15 pm
1:30 – 2:00 Live Music with Larry Nusbaum
2:00 – 3:30 Welcome, First Nations medicine elder blessing and song, introduction and key note speaker, Diane Beresford-Kroeger & Question period
Approx 3:30 or 3:45 Closing
Book signing to follow the closing
Tickets: Online Eventbrite go to: tospeakforthetrees.eventbrite.ca
General Admission Ticket + Support (e.g. a subsidy) $30.
General Admission Ticket $25.
Student &/or Requiring Subsidy $20.
or
At Another Story Bookshop, Cash $25. as of Sept 10, 315 Roncesvalles Ave., Toronto, ON M6R 2M6
At the Door: $30.00 Cash