Lecture on combining literature and wilderness
Saturday Mornings, the award-winning morning discussion and lecture series collaboration of Sierra Nevada College and Incline Village Parks & Recreation Senior Programs continue this fall.
College faculty and other knowledgeable locals present bite-size offerings of intellectually stimulating material to pique people’s interest and challenge their sensibilities.
An optional continental breakfast will be provided for $3.
Sierra Nevada College Professor Katie Zanto has been nominated as one of L.L. Bean’s top 10 Outdoor Heroes based on her work founding the Adventure Risk Challenge Program—a place-based program that integrates wilderness challenges with a rigorous literacy and leadership curriculum. Zanto is an educator, who, fueled by a great dedication to the environment, has created a variety of unusual unique opportunities for youth to discover their own passion and love for the outdoors. It is Katie’s broad interpretation of environment that is unique, which she blends into all areas of her work.
She speaks Nov. 12 from 10am-noon at Sierra Nevada College, Prim Library, Room 213, 999 Tahoe Blvd., Incline Village.
For details, contact Debi Noonan at (775) 831.1314, ext. 7420, dnoonan@sierranevada.edu.
As someone who’s committed over two years now to the recently introduced No Child Left Inside Act (Both house of Congress July 14th) on behalf of the possibility of having ‘local’ children teach others through service learning, I will be looking forward to what Ms. Zanto has to say. . .
Next generations will have to know a lot more than just Pokemon characters (as reported in the book Last Child in the Woods -focusing on Nature Deficit Disorder) to become aware of the world around us, to make the decisions we did not. . .
Is there a website for this Saturday morning lecture series?