KAW
COUNCIL EVENTS SAMPLING
(scroll down to see more on presenters)
Here
are some past events we've hosted or organized since 1982.
Please
contact us at carynken@mindspring.com if you would like to attend or
suggest an event.
Dreaming on the Prairie – a weekend gathering focused on our
conscious and unconscious dreams of living fully on the land
Writing from the
Earth – a writing workshop rooted in sense
of place
The Language of
the Prairie -- weekend gathering featuring David Abram, author of Spell
of the Sensuous
Moving with the
Earth – a Feldenkreis movement workshop
focused on self-healing and strengthening the body
The Next 25
Years: Creating a Sustainable Future – a weekend
gathering with workshops on straw bale building, living lighty,
rewilding, native habitat restoration and more.
Visions of Peace
– a weekend gathering featuring bioregional
artists and writers, sessions to envision and share visions of peace,
and celebrations
Telling Stories
of Place – a discussion and potluck in the
heart of winter to share stories of places and spaces that shape our
lives
Intimacy with the
Earth – a round circle discussion of how to
cultivate our relationship with the earth, held near
Valentine’s Day
Celebrating The
Prairie – a weekend discussion featuring
William Least Heat Moon, Wendell Berry and Wes Jackson, held jointly
with other Kansas organizations
The 9th
Continental Bioregional Congress on the Prairie – a
week-long congress bringing together farmers, activists, artists,
wilderness advocates, educators, healers and many others to further
develop and put into action a bioregional vision for the continent
Stephanie Mills
on Living Bioregionally – a reading with the
author of Epicurian
Simplicity
Books That
Changed Your Life – a mid-winter tradition of
sharing powerful books and good food
More than Saving
What’s Left – a weekend gathering
featuring “road warriors” (people fighting the
highway department to save sacred Native lands and habitats), city and
county commissioners and planners, and more.
KAW Council has featured the following KAW members and friends at
gatherings and events:
David Abram,
Author of The Spell of the Sensuous
Stephanie Mills – Author of Epicurian Simplicity
Wendell Berry – Author of many books of essays and poetry on
ecological living
Judy Goldhaft – Planet
Drum Foundation
Wes Jackson – Founder of The
Land Institute
David Haenke – Founder of the Ozark Area
Community Congress
Laura Kuri – Founder of the Bioregional Consejo in Mexico,
and author of the Mexican bioregional reader
William Least Heat Moon – Author of Prairyearth
Mary Meyer and Richard Cartwright – Straw bale building and
living lightly at home
From the Kansas Area Watershed:
Stephen Figgins – Wilderness awareness training
Ken Lassman – Author of Wild Douglas
County, and Seasons and
Cycles
Jerry Sipe – Wilderness photography
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg – Writing, literature and sense of
place (see www.writewhereyouare.org
or www.bravevoice.com
or
Field
Notes & Weather Reports)
Joy DeMaranville – Massage
therapist and Feldenkreis
practitioner
Dan Bentley – Organic gardening
Stan Slaughter – Compost toilets and recycling, and ecological troubadour
Richard Morantz – Chinese medicine and seasonal cooking
Mike Rundle – City commissioner and past mayor of Lawrence
Paul Hotvedt – Artist
Laura Jost – Artist and oral historian
Lavetta Rolfs – Consensus training, Learning for
Life Center
Denise Low – Writer
and poet, and expert on Native American
literature
Bev Worster – Conservation planning