The Pillars of Heyday with John Muir Laws and Vincent Medina, Jr:
Lafayette Library and Learning Center
3491 Mt Diablo Blvd, Lafayette
Thursday, October 2nd, 2014
6:30pm – 8:00pm | $20Malcom Margolin’s Heyday Books has been publishing original California stories for the past forty years. Topics cover native peoples, newly arrived immigrants, nature, and explorations of California’s most original thinkers, poets, and visual artists. Join us for a discussion with two of Heyday’s most prolific and popular writers and collaborators: Jack Muir Laws and Vincent Medina, Jr.
Naturalist, educator and artist John (Jack) Muir Laws is trained as a wildlife biologist and is a Research Associate of the California Academy of Sciences. He is the founder and host of the Bay Area Nature Journal Club, monthly free nature sketching workshops, field trips and events, connecting people with nature through art, and has written and illustrated books about art and natural history including “The Laws Guide to Drawing Birds” (2012), “Sierra Birds: a Hiker’s Guide” (2004), “The Laws Guide to the Sierra Nevada” (2007), and “The Laws Pocket Guide Set to the San Francisco Bay Area” (2009).
Vincent Medina, Jr, a member of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe of the San Francisco Bay Area, works for Heyday Books, where he focuses on sharing the stories of the larger California Indian world. He authors the lively multimedia blog “Being Ohlone in the 21st Century” and is active in the revitalization of the Chochenyo language, the indigenous language of the eastern shores of the San Francisco Bay that many linguists had long labeled “extinct.” Using wax cylinder recordings and ethnographic notes, he has helped bring the language into modern times.
Student Tickets – $5, please call to register and you may pay at door.
Please note – there are no physical tickets for this event. Your name will be on the check-in sheet at the door. Pre-event reception at 5:30 in the Art & Science Center.
All event proceeds (ticket revenue & a portion of book sales) help to fund Library services.