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SEPTEMBER 28

Friday evening4-6 p.m.: Registration opens. 8 p.m.: The traditional barn dance begins. Dance or just tap your toes to the tunes played by our perennial “Land Band” in the Big Barn. At dusk, weather permitting, sit by the warmth of the

bonfire in the Hedge Fire Circle and

listen to the music and

laughter drift across the darkening prairie.

General Information SEPTEMBER 29 Saturday237 a.m.: Registration & bookstore open.

7:30-8:30 a.m.: Kernza® pancake feed. (Optional event, free-will donations accepted). 8:30 a.m.: Official welcome in the Big Barn.

8:45 a.m.: Lectures begin. There will be breaks between speakers and an extended time for lunch to allow the food trucks to serve attendees. 12-1:30 p.m.: Lunch: Enjoy lunch at your leisure with local food trucks at the picnic area.

3-5 p.m.: Following the last afternoon speaker, guests can join staff-led tours of the research plots. Buses will transport participants to and from the plots. Separately, we will also be offering tours of the new greenhouse during this time. 5-6 p.m.: Prairie Festival speakers will be on hand to autograph books. 5-7:30 p.m.: Dinner: Visit one of the food trucks for a Land Institute raised bison meal or a vegetarian option. At 7:30 p.m.: Come back to the Big Barn for entertainment from "Everyday Lights."

SEPTEMBER 30

Sunday morning7:30 a.m.: Join us for one of our sunrise activities: a prairie walk led by Land Institute

staff and friends, or practice your sun

salutations with a local

yoga instructor in the Hedge Fire Circle.

8:45 a.m.: Festival

favorite Ann Zimmerman

warms the Big Barn with her witty and beautifully-performed songs. Following the music, the final lectures round out the morning.

12:30 p.m.: The festival closes.

1 p.m.: The bookstore closes.

Schedule of Events (subject to change - times are approximate)

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Meals may be purchased from a variety of on-site food trucks, or feel free to bring coolers. Most of the food trucks will offer meals featuring meat from bison pastured on our land in addition to other selections. There are also a number of restaurants within 10 minutes of The Land Institute.

Primitive camping is available; no water or electrical hook-ups. Amenities: port-a-potties, hand-washing stations, solar showers, an electronics charging station and water stations. Campfires are permitted unless there is a county-wide burn ban.

Kansas weather is unpredictable at all times of the year, so come prepared to be hot, cold, wet and/or dry. Sturdy shoes and layered clothing are always a good idea.

Children's area available Saturday 8 a.m.-12 p.m. and 1-5 p.m. Activities include: an art project, a nature walk, story telling and hay bale fun.

The bookstore sells a variety of Land Institute merchandise as well as books and CDs. New items for sale include locally crafted mugs and this year's Prairie Festival T-Shirt.

No pets are allowed at Prairie Festival.

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Everyday Lights is a group of Salina-based musicians with a love for folk and jazz rhythms. Their unique instrumentation and improvised harmony gives them a fresh, creative sound that is best realized in their original music. Their ability to combine a variety of musical styles including folk, country, rock and bluegrass always keeps the audience

guessing and looking forward to the next song.

Liz Carlisle is a lecturer in the School of Earth, Energy and Environmen-tal Sciences at Stanford University, where she teaches courses on food and agriculture, sustainability transition, and environmental commu-nication. She is author of Lentil Underground: Renegade Farmers and the

Future of Food in America.

Mary Berry is the executive director of The Berry Center. The Berry Center was started in 2011 to continue the agricultural work of John Berry, Sr. and his sons Wendell Berry and John Berry, Jr., all staunch advocates for small farmers and land-conserving economies. The Berry Center focuses on issues confronting small farm families.

Claire Pentecost is an artist and writer whose poetic and inductive drawings, sculpture, and installations test and celebrate the conditions that bound and define life itself. Her projects address the contested line between the natural and the artificial, focusing for many years on food, agriculture, bio-engineering, and anthropogenic changes in the

indivisible living entity that animates our planet.

Ceara Donnelley is vice chair and strategic counsel of the Center for Humans and Nature. Ceara is co-editor of Frog Pond Philosophy, a newly-released volume of essays by her father, the late environmental philospher Strachan Donnelley. She is also the vice chair of the board of the South Carolina Coastal Conservation League and is a board member

of the Charleston Library Society.

David Bollier, activist, scholar and blogger, is focused on the commons as a new paradigm for re-imagining economics, politics, and culture. He pursues this work as director of the Reinventing the Commons Program at the Schumacher Center for a New Economics and as co-founder of the Commons Strategies Group, an international advocacy project.

Brooke Hecht has been the president of the Center for Humans and Nature since 2008. Whether through the Center’s Questions for a Resilient Future program or other initiatives, her work explores what it means to be human and what our responsibilities are to each other and the whole community of life.

40TH ANNUAL Prairie Festival SEPTEMBER 28-30, 2018

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Loka Ashwood is an assistant professor at Auburn University in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology. She is a former award-winning journalist who now works with communities to enact proactive change through research. Ashwood is the author of For-Profit Democracy: Why the Government is Losing the Trust of Rural

America.