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Event
Central Wasatch Symposium
Join us for a conference spotlighting the four interdependent systems of economy, environment, recreation, and transportation in the Central Wasatch. Terry Tempest Williams will provide the keynote address.
When:
Thursday, January 9th, 10:00 a.m. 5:00 p.m.
Friday, January 10th, 1:00 p.m. 6:30 p.m.
Doors open 45 minutes prior to start time each day.
Where:
Millcreek City Hall, 1330 E Chambers Ave, Millcreek, UT 84106.
Free parking available on-site at Millcreek City Hall.
Cost Tiers for Entrance to Both Symposium Days:
$50, general entrance + food and drinks + access to all breakout sessions.
$10, student entrance + food and drinks + access to all breakout sessions.
$75, general entrance + tabling expo table reservation + food and drinks + access to all breakout sessions.
Free and discounted tickets available to anyone who makes the request. Please email samantha@cwc.utah.gov to purchase a tabling ticket, a student ticket, or to request free or discounted tickets.
Space at the Symposium is limited! Reserve your spot now.
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Terry Tempest Williams has been called a citizen writer, a writer who speaks and speaks out eloquently on behalf of an ethical stance toward life. A naturalist and fierce advocate for freedom of speech, she has consistently shown us how environmental issues are social issues that ultimately become matters of justice. So here is my question, she asks, what might a different kind of power look like, feel like, and can power be redistributed equitably even beyond our own species?
Williams, like her writing, cannot be categorized. She has testified before Congress on womens health issues, been a guest at the White House, has camped in the remote regions of Utah and Alaska wildernesses and worked as a barefoot artist in Rwanda.
Known for her impassioned and lyrical prose, Terry Tempest Williams is the author of the environmental literature classics Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place; An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field; Desert Quartet; Leap; Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert; The Open Space of Democracy; Finding Beauty in a Broken World; When Women Were Birds; Erosion: Essays of Undoing; The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of Americas National Parks; and The Story of My Heart by Richard Jeffries, as rediscovered by Brooke Williams and Terry Tempest Williams. She has collaborated with photographer Fazal Sheikh on The Moon Is Behind Us, with artist Mary Frank on A Burning Testament, and What My Body Knows, and she wrote the introductory essay for A Wild Promise by Allen Crawford. In 2024 she wrote text to accompany woodblock prints by Gaylord Schanilec for the fine press book Oracle Bones (Red Butte Press).
In 2006, Williams received the Robert Marshall Award from The Wilderness Society, their highest honor given to an American citizen. She also received the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Western American Literature Association and the Wallace Stegner Award given by The Center for the American West. She is the recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in creative nonfiction. In 2009, Terry Tempest Williams was featured in Ken Burns PBS series on the national parks. In 2014, on the 50th Anniversary of the Wilderness Act, Ms. Williams received the Sierra Clubs John Muir Award honoring a distinguished record of leadership in American conservation. Williams also received the 2017 Audubon New York Award for Environmental Writing. In 2019 Terry Tempest Williams was given The Robert Kirsch Award, a lifetime achievement prize given to a writer with a substantial connection to the American West and was also elected as a member into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2023 she received The Thoreau Prize given by the Thoreau Society.
Terry Tempest Williams has served as the Annie Clark Tanner Fellow in the University of Utahs Environmental Humanities Graduate Program which she co-founded in 2004; and was the Provostial Scholar at Dartmouth College, serving as a Montgomery Fellow twice. Williams is currently writer-in-residence at the Harvard Divinity School. She is co-founder of the Constellation Project which seeks to create a community of practice to promote the importance of imagination, creativity, and spirituality in Planetary Health. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Orion Magazine, The Progressive, and numerous anthologies worldwide as a crucial voice for ecological consciousness and social change. She divides her time between Castle Valley, Utah, and Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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The event will begin on January 9th, 2025 at 10:00am with a keynote address from award-winning author, environmentalist, and activist Terry Tempest Williams. Lunch will be served at 11:00am, and the remainder of the day will consist of breakout sessions until 5:00pm. There will also be a tabling expo during the lunch hour.
We pick back up on January 10th, 2025 at 1:00pm with a panel discussion with mayors from across the Central Wasatch Front and Back. The day will continue with more breakout sessions, a tabling expo in the middle of the afternoon, and will conclude with the opportunity to network with other attendees and speakers over light appetizers and live music from 5:30-6:30pm.
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LocationMillcreek City Hall (View)
1330 E Chambers Ave
Millcreek, UT 84106
United States
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