Past Events | Program in Community, Culture, and Environment

We're Moving!

May 20 to Jul 1, 2008

In June 2008, The Program in Community, Culture & Environment will move to our new location in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences! Please look for us in rooms 280 and 282 in Social and Behavioral Sciences West, building 70, on the Northern Arizona University Campus.

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Brad Lancaster: Rainwater and Greywater Harvesting

Jun 5, 2008 - 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Permaculture expert Brad Lancaster will share how rainwater harvesting and greywater irrigation can help Flagstaff make the best use of one of our region’s most valuable resources.

Since 1993, Brad Lancaster has run a successful permaculture consulting, design, and education business focused on integrated and sustainable approaches to landscape design, planning, and living. As he lives in the dryland environment, rainwater harvesting and greywater irrigation have long been...

View P.A.W.S. Sculpture Proposals

May 12, 2008 - 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

You are invited to give your input on the selection of a mountain lion sculpture which will be replicated 40 times, decorated, and installed around Flagstaff. Three local sculptors have submitted their sculpture entries which will be on display. One will be chosen and its sculptor commissioned to create a life-sized sculpture for casting.

Flagstaff P.A.W.S. (Promoting Assets with Sculpture) is a project of the Assets Committee of the Coconino Coalition for Children...

2008 Northern Arizona Book Festival

Apr 24 to Apr 26, 2008

The Program in Community, Culture, and Environment is pleased to support the 2008 Northern Arizona Book Festival.

This year's authors include:

Dorothy Allison

Sylvest Allred

Monica Brown

Megan Buchanan

Sean Carswell

Peter Christensen

Jill Divine

Uncle Don Fanning

Christine Granados

Rose Houk

Jesse...

Gary Nabhan: Farewell Lecture

Apr 24, 2008 - 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Gary Paul Nabhan, Ph.D., is a writer, lecturer and world-renowned conservation scientist. He is the outgoing Director of the Center for Sustainable Environments at Northern Arizona University, where he catalyzed the Canyon Country Fresh regional food initiative on the Colorado Plateau.

After gaining degrees in agriculture and arid lands resources from the University of Arizona, Dr. Nabhan co-founded Native Seeds/ SEARCH and became a leading voice for conserving and renovating...

Benjamin Britten's War Requiem in Context

Apr 11, 2008 - 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm

The history and context behind Benjamin Britten’s celebrated “War Requiem” comes alive in a panel discussion among Northern Arizona University faculty members Julie Brown, Edith Copley, David Kitterman, Alyce Jordan, Nancy Paxton, and Todd Sullivan This event, held at NAU’s Ashurst Auditorium includes Italianate buffet. The dinner and panel discussion precedes a performance of "Britten's War Requiem" by the NAU Shrine of the Ages Choir, NAU Women's...

Elizabeth Sackler: A Museum's Work: Art, Acquisitions, and Accords

Apr 9, 2008

For more than a quarter century, arts activist and philanthropist Elizabeth A. Sackler has influenced the national and international worlds of art, collecting and museum practices.

In 1992, Sackler founded the American Indian Ritual Object Repatriation Foundation, whose mission has been to assist in the repatriation of ceremonial objects and to educate the public on the distinction between art that is appropriate for sale and those items needed for spiritual practices of...

Penny Bonda: The Design of Sustainability

Apr 8, 2008 - 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Penny Bonda, popularly referred to as the “mother” of green interiors, works in the field of environmental communications. She is the founding chair of the US Green Building Council Committee for the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Commercial Interiors and the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) Sustainable Design Council, and is currently the co-chair of the USGBC/ASID Green Residential Renovation and Interior Remodeling Program. As the Eco Editor...

Corrado Poli: Creating Livable Communities: Examples from Europe

Mar 28, 2008 - 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Poli will consider urban planning and quality of life issues including income, gender, social status, and traffic as the crucial problems of the contemporary city. He will review successful European and U.S. strategies for the creation of livable communities.

Corrado Poli is professor of Economics and Environmental Ethics at the University of Bergamom, Italy and International Faculty at the Institute for Policy Studies, Johns Hopkins. His most recent book, European Contemporary...

From Dialect to Dialogue: Exploring Jewish-Christian Encounters throughout History

Mar 6 to Mar 27, 2008

Marc Krell, a scholar of Judaic Studies from Tucson, Arizona, will present three lectures on three Thursday evenings in March:

March 6: The Second Temple Period and its Aftermath: Examining Jewish-Christian Co-Emergence March 13: Theology versus History: Destroying the Identity of the Other to Build Up the Self

March 27: From Ambivalence to Affirmation: Jewish and Christian Theologies of the Other Prior to and Following the...

	P.A.W.S. (Promoting Assets with Sculpture) Public Art Project For the past decade, the streets of an increasing number of U.S. cities have been...
	Colorado Plateau Art Institute Workshop Series, Summer 2008 Explore the natural world on the Colorado Plateau through workshops in painting,...
	Call to Artists: Night Visions III Artists are encouraged to submit work that explores or celebrates the night, the...
	CC&E Welcomes Dr. Romand Coles, New McAllister Chair in Community, Culture, & Environment The Program in CC&E is pleased to welcome Dr. Romand Coles as our new McAllister...

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