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SPECIAL EVENTS The Delicate Connection of People and the Biology of the Rainforest: Implications for Curriculum (Grades 5-8) Susan Wu is an environmental educator in the Tiorati Workshop for Environmental Learning at Bank Street College. She uses a science inquiry-based approach on field trips for children in grades K-7 to various nature sites. Susan has a background in biology and has worked in the education department of the Tech Museum of Innovation, an interactive science museum in San Jose, CA Cost: To receive further information about dates, fees, registration and other details:
The Touchstone Center in association with
The Necessity of Childhood
A series of informal conversations centered on the importance of strengthening the intuitive, imaginative and expressive capacities of childhood - and the role they play in children's learning and understanding.
Moderated by Richard Lewis, author of Living by Wonder: The Imaginative Life of Childhood and the Founder and Director of the Touchstone Center for Children
The Child as Child A conversation on the instinctive abilities of children to explore their worlds through their play and imaginative creations. The conversation will feature William Crain, author of Reclaiming Childhood and Barbara Feinberg, author of Welcome to Lizard Motel: Children, Stories and the Mystery of Making Things Up.
March 5th Bank Street College 10 to 12 PM
The Play of Imagining: A conversation based on the ideas of the eminent French philosopher, Gaston Bachelard, author of The Poetics of Reverie: Childhood, Language and the Cosmos. The conversation will feature Joanne Stroud, editor of the Gaston Bachelard Translation Series of the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, and Susan Kinsolving, poet, teacher, and author of The White Eyelash.
May 7th Bank Street College 10 to 12 PM
The Unfolding of Nature A conversation with Noah Baen, Leader of Wave Hill's Family Art Project, on the need of children to participate, imaginatively and artistically, in the natural world. Participants are welcome to observe a family art workshop in the afternoon centered around a performance by The Touchstone Center Theatre Ensemble of In the Space of the Sky, written by Richard Lewis and illustrated by Debra Frasier.
June 4th Wave Hill 10 to 12 PM
Single admission: $10 per conversation $25 for entire series Because of limited seating reservations must be made directly with The Touchstone Center 141 East 88th Street New York, NY 10128 212-831-7717 or through
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