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programs / detail
programs / detail

“GONZO NATURALIST” ALEX SHOUMATOFF ON HUMAN GREED, ECOCIDE AND THE PLIGHT OF THE GIRAFFE

60min | english

Prominent literary journalist Alex Shoumatoff (The Wasting of Borneo: Dispatches From a Vanishing World), the author of eleven books and more than a hundred pieces for The New Yorker, Vanity Fair and other magazines, talks about documenting and celebrating the world's fast-disappearing biocultural diversity. In conversation with Matt Zimbel.

Adult, Who’s afraid of the past ? Who’s afraid of the future ? |

participant Alex Shoumatoff
host Matt Zimbel
Saturday Apr. 29 2017 3:30 PM Salle Jardin (Hôtel 10) 60min Buy ticket

“GONZO NATURALIST” ALEX SHOUMATOFF ON HUMAN GREED, ECOCIDE AND THE PLIGHT OF THE GIRAFFE

60min | english
about
Blue Metropolis Foundation is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1997 that brings together people from different cultures to share the pleasure of reading and writing, and encourages creativity and intercultural understanding. The Foundation produces an Annual Literary Festival of international calibre and offers a wide range of educational and social programs year-round, both in classrooms and online.
program
  • adult
  • children
themes
  • Adult
  • Almemar
  • Blue - Violet Metropolis
  • CBC Blue Series
  • Children
  • Concordia Effect
  • Family and Children
  • First Novel
  • Gaming and Literature
  • God, Literature and Society
  • Hospitals and Specialised Schools
  • LGBTQ Series
  • Literary Awards
  • MAC Series
  • Poetry Here, There and Everywhere
  • Scared Stiff
  • Spanish and Portugese Literature
  • Surprising Slovenia
  • Translation: An act of Faith
  • Who’s afraid of the past ? Who’s afraid of the future ?
  • Women and Words
types
  • Author Reading
  • Author/Illustrator Meeting
  • Award Ceremony
  • Benefit Event
  • Cocktail
  • Conference
  • Exhibition
  • Homage
  • Interview
  • Launch
  • Literary Performance
  • Panel Discussion
  • Poetry Performance
  • Reading
  • Storytelling
  • Walking Tour
  • Workshop
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