For Immediate Release

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City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com

Writer Nicole Walker to read for Wild Words with Jaimi Butler and Michael McLane: a special City Art summer event

Antelope Island State Park

Wednesday July 26th, 6:00—8:00 P.M.
 
Writer Nicole Walker will read from her work preceded by a presentation on the ecology and cultural history of the Great Salt Lake featuring Jaimi Butler and Michael McLane on Wednesday, July 26th at 6:00 p.m. at the White Rock Campground on Antelope Island as part of Wild Words: a City Art special summer event. This event is free and open to the public though there is an entry fee for the state park.  Please bring fold out chairs and plenty of beverages and snacks.  Following the reading, stick around for the sunset.   Note: there is an entrance fee for Antelope Island to help support this beautiful, unique state park. 
 
Great Salt Lake Talk: Prior to the reading, join us at 5:30 PM for a discussion of the ecology of the area as well as the environmental and literary history of the Great Salt Lake with Jaimi Butler from the Great Salt Lake Institute and Michael McLane from Utah Humanities Council. Butler and McLane have been leading daytrips to Antelope Island over the last year in order to help visitors and residents better understand the complexities of the region and to integrate both science and the humanities in an understanding of place.
 
NICOLE WALKER is the author of two forthcoming books Sustainability: A Love Story and Microcosmology. Her previous books include Egg, Micrograms, Quench Your Thirst with Salt, and This Noisy Egg. She also edited Bending Genre with Margot Singer. She’s nonfiction editor at Diagram and Associate Professor at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona where it rains like the Pacific Northwest, but only in July.
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The event is free and open to the public.  City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, X-mission, and audience donations.  Wild Words is also supported by the Utah Humanities Council. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Joel Long