SUNDAY 9 JUNE 2024 | INSTORE EVENT
2.30pm for 3.00pm start | 60mins
Join us for a discussion with Wendy Sarkissian about her book Creeksong.
ABOUT THE BOOK
A spirited elder recounts her activist journey to confront the terrors of climate change
In 1990, the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its first Assessment Report. By then, award-winning urban planner Wendy Sarkissian had been singing the climate blues for years. Her colleagues dismiss her fears, so she abandons urban life for a solitary retreat to reconsider her professional and activist directions. With no bush living skills, this terrified novice confronts many challenges during her harsh, year-long adventure in the Australian outback. As weeks pass, however, she discovers wellsprings of courage. Later, she hears her rainforest singing as she rests in a tiny creek. She returns to city life to pursue a doctorate in environmental ethics. With her commitment and energy rekindled, she sings her Creeksong in the service of the Earth.
The healing messages flowing from this spirited elder’s soulful memoir will inspire readers from all generations. As we raise our voices to sing our climate blues, we may confront despair, unlock wellsprings of courage, and commit ourselves to the care and protection of our Earth. Inspired by this fervent elder, we may also experience the blessing of healing generational wounds.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Wendy Sarkissian is a highly awarded author, planner, and environmental ethicist whose research and writing focus on climate change. She is the lead author of the award-winning book Kitchen Table Sustainability (Earthscan Routledge, 2009). During a long career as a planner in Australia, Wendy received over 40 professional awards and was a leading community engagement practitioner and sought-after speaker on the international circuit. She focuses on taking personal responsibility for sustainability issues. In the early 1990s, Wendy lived for a year in harsh conditions in tropical northern Australia to learn firsthand about climate change, ecology and caring for Nature. Her memoir, Creeksong: One Woman Sings the Climate Blues, emerged from that experience.
