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Start: 19:00
End: 22:00
Time: 7:00 PM
Date: 8/27/2008
Location: Jackson Theater at Sonoma Country Day School
 The Contemporary Issues Series is presented by Sonoma Country Day School to promote critical thinking about ideas of importance to the life of our community. Physicist, ecologist and activist Dr. Vandana Shiva will discuss the world food crisis and other critical issues of our day. This event is presented in partnership with Occidental Arts and Ecology Center and the International Forum on Globalization (IFG).Tickets are $20 in advance, $10 for Students and $25 at the door and include a wine reception and book signing after the talk.
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Dr.
Vandana Shiva is the winner of the alternative Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 (the Right Livelihood Award) and named by AsiaWeek as one of the top five most important people in Asia in 2001,Vandana Shiva is a dynamic, provocative thinker and commentator on the environment, women’s issues, and international affairs. She is the author of over three hundred papers in leading journals and numerous books, including Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge and Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply. Dr. Shiva is a founding board member of the International Forum on Globalization and the founder of Navdanya International, a science and policy research center based in India.
Start: 20:00
End: 23:00
Please join us for a very special evening of classical singing. Billed as “Una Canzone alla Foresta” (A Song to the Forest), this elegant, educational multi-lingual concert event will feature the timeless operatic literature and classical European art song of the greatest composers of the tradition -- Mozart, Verdi, Puccini, Bizet, Schubert, Brahms and others. | ||
Date: August 27th, 8 pm
