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Urban Wilderness author reading and book signing

August 27, 6:30-8:00 pm

Meeting Room of the Central Library, at 814 W. Wisconsin Ave.

 

Urban Wilderness: Exploring a Metropolitan Watershed, the long-awaited book by photographer and FMR board member Eddee Daniel, has been published by the prestigious Center for American Places at Columbia College Chicago.
Urban Wilderness intertwines the arts of photography and storytelling to celebrate the joy of discovering an unexpected reality: natural beauty in an urban setting. The author spent six years combing the “backwoods” of an urban landscape, experiencing what it truly means to live in a watershed. Daniel’s camera and notebook recorded what he found, whether natural or built up, aesthetically pleasing—or polluted and ugly. Urban Wilderness guides us down waterways, examines the paradox of its title and reveals that preserving urban rivers is key to sustainable city life. Excerpts can be found on www.eddeedaniel.com.


Riverkeeper Bash 2008

September 19, 2008, 6pm

Performance Yacht Services, 520 S. Water St.

Celebrate the program that keeps our rivers clean! On Friday, September 19, Friends of Milwaukee's Rivers will be holding our Second Annual Riverkeeper Bash at Performance Yacht Services. Take in the beauty of the Milwaukee River while enjoying delicious food, music by the Garlic Mustard Pickers, and a silent auction, all for the benefit of the Milwaukee Riverkeeper® Program.

Tickets are $35 for members, $40 for non-members. Please RSVP by September 10, 2008.

RSVP form [PDF]

 

Fall River Cleanup 2008

October 11, 2008

Help us clean the Kinnickinnic River, one of 10 "Most Endangered Rivers" in the country.  More details to follow.

Arts and the Rivers contest

Submissions due December 1, 2008

To celebrate our rivers, FMR is seeking visual works that convey the beauty and importance of our waterways in an artistically meaningful way. Content of the work must connect in some way to the Kinnickinnic, Menomonee, and/or Milwaukee Rivers.

Submitted works must be drawings, paintings, prints, or photographs up to 48" x 48". Artists must submit digital images to erin_hartman@mkeriverkeeper.org by 5pm, December 1, 2008.

  More information

 

For more events in the Milwaukee River Basin check out the Milwaukee River Basin Partnerships Event Calendar

 

Friends of Milwaukee's Rivers

1845 N. Farwell Avenue, Suite 100

Milwaukee, WI 53202

(ph) 414-287-0207

(f) 414-273-7293

info@mkeriverkeeper.org