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Join us for a special evening showcasing the literary stars of tomorrow. Our featured readers -- elementary, middle, and high school students from across Seattle -- are maestros of metaphor, virtuosos of verbs. You will laugh and cry as students read original poems and stories they've written through the mentorship of writers-in-residence from the Writers in the Schools (WITS) program. Since 1994, this innovative literary arts education program has been partnering with area public schools to inspire students to pick up the pen and speak the truth. To order tickets for the WITS Student Reading and Celebration, please e-mail wits@lectures.org with subject line Student Reading or call (206) 621-2230 x10. John Waters Writer, actor, and filmmaker of such cult classics as Pink Flamingos, Polyester, and Hairspray. Tickets for this event are available through the Seattle Symphony Box Office. By phone at (206)215-4747, on-line at www.seattlesymphony.org/benaroya, or in person at 200 University Street, Seattle.
Wangari Maathai's Green Belt Movement has planted more than 30 million trees, as well as seeds of hope for women and the rural poor of Kenya. Maathai defied custom, tradition, and her own government to carry out the groundbreaking reforestation and human rights work that won her Nobel Peace Prize in 2004. The first woman in East and Central Africa to earn a PhD and to head a university department, Maathai went on to receive the Woman of the Year award twice, the Goldman Environmental Prize, and the Edinburgh Medal. Join us as environmentalist and social activist Dr. Wangari Maathai opens our 20th anniversary season and takes us on a stirring journey from a subsistence farm in Africa to her place as a visionary on the world stage.
Two-time Newbery Medal winner, for Number the Stars (1990) and The Giver (1994), Lois Lowry is the prolific author of more than 30 books for children and young adults. A future in which the past is forgotten, the death of a beloved sister, the effects of mental illness on a family - her stories illuminate history, the world of the imagination, and ordinary family life. The trials and triumphs of such characters as Anastasia and Sam Krupnik and Gooney Bird Greene have helped kids navigate their own lives since 1979. As Lowry has noted, "My books have varied in content and style. Yet it seems that all of them deal, essentially, with the same general theme: the importance of human connections."
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