[SEMCO] Falmouth Forum - November 3, 2017 at 7:30 PM

[Nancy Bridges]

For Immediate Release:
October 31, 2017

Contact: Nancy Bridges
nbridges at mbl.edu<mailto:sjoslin at mbl.edu>; 508-289-7171

Walking To Listen Talk Kicks Off
Marine Biological Laboratory Falmouth Forum Season, November 3
How would our world change if we all listened first? Where do we begin? Andrew Forsthoefel speaks to these questions in an evening of storytelling and discussion
Woods Hole, MA -- Author and adventurer Andrew Forsthoefel will present a talk on living to listen at the Marine Biological Laboratory's first Falmouth Forum<http://www.mbl.edu/falmouth-forum> of the new season, Friday November 3.  Forsthoefel's lecture, titled "Walking to Listen: 4,000 Miles Across America, One Story at a Time" will be held at 7:30 PM in the MBL's Lillie Auditorium, 7 MBL Street, Woods Hole.  The free series is presented by the MBL Associates<http://www.mbl.edu/associates>. Free parking is available in any MBL lot.

At the age of 23, Forsthoefel walked out the back door of his home in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, with a backpack, an audio recorder, his copies of Whitman and Rilke, and a sign that read "Walking to Listen." He had just graduated from Middlebury College and was ready to begin his adult life, but he didn't know how. So he decided he'd walk. And listen. It would be a cross-country quest for guidance, and everyone he met would be his guide.

Forsthoefel will speak to these questions in an evening of storytelling and discussion, drawing from his 2011 walk across America, the beginning of his apprenticeship to the discipline of listening.

Forsthoefel's narrative work has appeared on This American Life and The Moth.  He teaches walking and listening as practices in connective presence, personal transformation, and conflict resolution.  His book Walking to Listen: 4,000 Miles Across America, One Story at a Time<http://livingtolisten.com> (Bloomsbury, 2017) was recently selected for all school reads by both Berkshire and Holderness High Schools and he now devotes his time to taking this listening work into schools with programming on the discipline and art of listening.

The 2017-2018 season continues with the following presentations.  Visit mbl.edu/falmouth-forum<http://www.mbl.edu/falmouth-forum> for details and updated information.

December 1, 2017 *
Iceland, an Ambassador's Perspective
Robert Cushman Barber, (Former) U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Iceland and Partner at Price Lobel

March 2, 2018 *
Visiting Russia over Half a Century
Loren Graham, Professor Emeritus of the History of Science Program, MIT

April 6, 2018
Antarctica: Glacial History and the Future of Sea Level
Mark Kurz, Senior Scientist and NOSAMS Director, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

* This season the MBLWHOI Library will offer open houses of the MBL Rare Books Collection <http://www.mblwhoilibrary.org/collections/rare-books-and-mbl-archives> on December 1 and March 2 from 5:45 to 7:15 PM in the Grass Reference Room, Lillie Building 2nd floor, located at 7 MBL Street. The Library staff will display books and artifacts including An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the order of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, by  John Hawkesworth and Captain James Cook 1773 as well as T.H. Morgan's Nobel Prize.
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The Falmouth Forum is sponsored by the MBL Associates who provide a vital connection between the MBL and the community. MBL Associates create and host local educational and cultural programs, sponsor promising students and early career investigators, and volunteer their time to the MBL. Learn more at mbl.edu/associates<http://mbl.edu/associates>



Nancy Bridges
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