Deep Time: Writing and Art from an Ancient Forest

You're invited to a special event on January 8 that is free and open to all.

For more than 20 years, the Spring Creek Project has been inviting creative responses to the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest through our Long-Term Ecological Reflections program. This program brings imaginative thinkers in the humanities and the written and visual arts to this ancient forest of the Blue River watershed in Oregon, where scientists have been engaged for decades in long-term study.

Now, you’re invited to join us for an evening celebrating creative projects from this program that make us think in new ways about forests, our relationship to place, and the importance of long-term inquiry. Featured presenters Riley Yuan, Tom Montgomery Fate, Nancy Floyd, and Claire Giordano will share their work from the Andrews Forest and offer reflections that branch out far beyond the place where they originated.

• Deep Time: Writing and Art from an Ancient Forest
• January 8
• Doors open at 6 p.m. for happy hour
• Event begins at 7 p.m.
• Toomey Lobby, PRAx (470 SW 15th St)
• Free and open to all

All are invited to the pre-event happy hour from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. It will include:

• A visual arts display
• A specially curated forest-themed book sale by Grass Roots Books
• Poetry from the Andrews Forest
• Tabling with materials about this storied place and many of the writers and artists who have visited
• Beer, wine and snacks available for purchase