THE GALEN AND BARBARA ROWELL LECTURE SERIES and the presentation of THE ROWELL AWARD FOR THE ART OF ADVENTURE
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Please join us for a special Rowell Lecture event, “AN EVENING WITH DAVID BREASHEARS,” a reception and program with the mountaineer and renowned film makeras he pays tribute to his friends Galen and Barbara Rowell and discusses his work in filmmaking, mountaineering and climate change.
The program will also feature the presentation of the 2009 Rowell Award for the Art of Adventure to wilderness explorer and writer Craig Childs. The Award honors that adventurer whose artistic passion illuminates the wild places of the world, and whose accomplishments significantly benefit both the environment and the peoples who inhabit these lands and regions. Please visit www.rowellaward.com for more information.
This event is presented by The Rowell Legacy Committee, NatureBridge and the Commonwealth Club of California and supported by Mountain Light Gallery.
Date & Location: June
9, 2010 at the Mark Hopkins Hotel in San Francisco. One Nob Hill
(corner of California and Mason).
5:30 – 7:15 p.m. VIP Reception with David Breashears
and Craig Childs. Includes wine, hors d’oeuvres and preferred program
seating - $150.
7:30 p.m. Program: Rowell Lecture with David
Breashears and Rowell Award presented to Craig Childs. $25 Commonwealth
Club members and $35 non-members.
TICKETS: Reservations can be made through the Commonwealth Club website, http://www.commonwealthclub.org,
and will be confirmed by email. Tickets will be sold at the door only
if space is available.
The Rowell Legacy Committee welcomes its “old” new partner, NatureBridge,
as a sponsor of the Rowell Award for the Art of Adventure.
Early in the award’s history, NatureBridge, then Yosemite National Institutes,
worked closely with the Rowell Legacy Committee to administer the Galen
and Barbara Rowell Lecture Series and the Rowell Award for the Art of Adventure. We
are delighted to once again be partnering with NatureBridge, whose work inspires
in others a love of the natural world and the desire to protect the wild and
special places that Galen and Barbara held so dear.
Presentation of the 2008 Rowell Award for the Art of Adventure:
The fifth annual Rowell Lecture featured speaker and celebrated author
Greg Mortenson as he showed and discussed his work building schools
in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Presentation of the 2007 Rowell Award for the Art of Adventure:
The fourth annual Rowell Lecture featured speaker and celebrated photographer Annie Leibovitz as she showed and discussed her work. The program also included the presentation of the 2007 Rowell Award for the Art of Adventure to photographer, adventurer, environmentalist and author James Balog.
Presentation of the 2006 Rowell Award for the Art of Adventure:
The third annual Rowell Lecture, “AN EVENING WITH TOM BROKAW,” featured a reception and program with the former NBC Evening News anchor and best-selling author as he payed tribute to long time friends Galen and Barbara Rowell and spoke on the topic of “Deleting the Virtual Life”. The program also included the presentation of the 2006Rowell Award for the Art of Adventure to exceptional photographer Beth Wald.