To launch our brand new C5 Studios Speaker Series, C5 Studios proudly presents:
The Meaning of Mountains; the past and future significance of the Sierra Nevada
A presentation by Obi Kaufmann followed by a book signing
Friday, March 25th at 5.30pm - THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT
Obi Kaufmann, best-selling author of The California Field Atlas, brings his work to the C5 Studios Community Arts Center in Bishop on Friday, March 25th for a wide-ranging, and artistic presentation that will explore a deep-time, ecological and philosophical perspective of California’s superlative mountain range, the Sierra Nevada.
It is Obi’s contention that so many challenges facing California find opportunities for successful resolution inside the story of the Sierra Nevada mountains, an overwhelmingly influential force on all of the state’s ecology in the human and the more-than-human world. By understanding the geophysical patterns evident, including the adaptive cycles of climate, fire, water, and soil, we begin to find deeper truths about ourselves and about how we can be more aligned with this place towards a resilient future.
Obi's at-once practical and yet hopeful, solution-based message is based on realistic applications of ecological theories and historical predictions and offers a welcome antidote to the despair offered so often by both the contemporary media and our current, political environment. Obi will be addressing the profound changes that California's living landscape has undergone and continues to go through and what that means for biodiversity and humanity across the Sierra Nevada and beyond. Perhaps more importantly, Obi's ideas of multidisciplinary ecology, restoration theory and geographic literacy point to a new era of conservation, one that we can usher in together.
We are delighted to confirm this new date for this re-scheduled event - Obi Kaufmann was unable to travel to us for the original date in December 2021 due to Winter storms. Friday, March 25th 2022 is the new date for this event.
Registration for this event is now open! Advance registration is highly recommended and seats will be reserved for those who register in advance. Space is limited and we cannot guarantee that seats will be available on the night.
Masks are not required, but they are welcomed!
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED - If you have already registered, we are holding the guest list from the previously scheduled event and will honor it at the rescheduled event.
Please note that this is a ticketless event and your place on the guest list will guarantee your entry.
This event is donation-based, with a suggested minimum donation of $10. Your donations support C5 Studios as we develop our new Speaker Series, bringing more inspirational speakers to you!
C5 STUDIOS MEMBERS - YOU ARE INVITED TO ATTEND FREE OF CHARGE! To show our appreciation for our members’ continued support we would like to invite you to attend this event free of charge! Please drop us an email at contact@c5studios.org and let us know you’d like to reserve a spot -we cannot guarantee seats on a drop-in basis even for members.
THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT.
We will NOT be able to accept anyone at the door unless they have pre-registered and their name is on the guest list. Apologies for any disappointment!
About Obi Kaufman:
In the field atlases of Obi Kaufmann, science and art blend to illuminate the multifaceted array of California’s natural world, forming a uniquely elemental narrative based on the shaping forces of earth, air, fire, and water, connecting systems like no other series of books has done before. For poet, painter and naturalist Obi Kaufmann, California is a magic network of living systems that connect in a grand quilt of both ecology and beauty, holding enough science, mythology and language for a hundred field atlases to come.
An avid conservationist, Obi Kaufmann regularly travels around the state, presenting his work and vision to such groups as the Klamath-Siskiyou Wildland center, the Mojave Desert Land Trust, the Mechanics Institute of San Francisco, the Anza Borrego Foundation, the Mono Lake Committee, the University of California at Berkeley Botanical Garden, the University of California at Davis Plant Sciences Department, the University of California Santa Barbara Department of Water Sciences, the Peninsula Open Space Trust, the California Native Plant Society, the Wilderness Society and the Audubon Society.
The launch of our new Speaker Series has been made possible by generous funding provided by California Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) as part of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.
