Colleen Morton Busch

Author of Fire Monks

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Events – Archive

Events

2013

Saturday, Jan 19
West Coast Live with Sedge Thomson
10 a.m. to noon
Yoshi’s
Oakland, CA
Listen to the show!

Saturday, March 9
Sacramento Public Library Foundation’s Authors on the Move
Hyatt Hotel
Sacramento, CA

2012

Thursday, March 29
7 pm
Reading and photo slideshow
Bring a dessert and/or wine to enjoy
Tahoe Cross County (in the yurt!)
925 Country Club Drive
Tahoe City, CA

Monday, April 16
7 pm
Village Books
Bellingham, WA

Tuesday, April 17
Keynote speaker, with David Zimmerman
3rd Human Dimensions of Wildland Fire Conference
Seattle, WA

Wednesday, April 18
7 pm
Reading & signing
Seattle University Library
Boeing Room
901 12th Avenue
Click here for a campus map

Tuesday, June 26
Paperback Launch!
Diesel Books
7pm
5433 College Avenue
Oakland, CA

Thursday, June 28
Santa Cruz Central Library
7pm Slideshow and reading
224 Church Street
Santa Cruz, CA

Monday, July 9
East West Bookshop
A special slideshow and reading for the 4-year anniversary of the final evacuation–and turnaround
7:30pm
324 Castro St.
Mountain View, CA

Saturday, July 14
Oregon Country Fair
Chez Ray Stage
4pm
Veneta, OR

Sunday, July 29
Book Passage
4pm
51 Tamal Vista Rd.
Corte Madera, CA

Monday, July 30
Ancient Dragon Zen Gate
7:15pm zazen; 7:45pm talk
1922 W. Irving Park Rd.
Chicago, IL

Wednesday, August 1
University Club of Chicago
12pm
Lunch followed by a slideshow and talk
76 East Monroe Street
Chicago, IL

Thursday, August 23
6pm
Mendocino Book Company
102 South School Street
Ukiah, CA

Friday, August 24
6:30pm
Gallery Bookshop
Corner of Main & Kasten
Mendocino, CA

Friday, September 7
6:30pm
Resort at Squaw Creek
400 Squaw Creek Road
Olympic Valley, CA
With David Zimmerman and Squaw Valley Fire Chief Pete Bansen
Sponsored by the Squaw Valley Institute & The Bookshelf

Thursday, September 20
7:30pm
Community Hall
Lafayette Library and Learning Center
3491 Mt. Diablo Blvd.
Lafayette, CA

Wednesday, September 26
7pm
Copperfield’s Sebastopol
138 N. Main Street
Sebastopol, CA

Saturday, October 6
“Fire Stories,” a fundraiser for San Juan Ridge volunteer firefighters
Nevada City, CA

Saturday, October 13
7:15 pm
Litquake – with other Squaw Valley Community of Writers alumni
Carte Blanche Gallery
973 Valencia
San Francisco, CA

Wednesday, October 31 – Halloween!
1:15 pm
Live radio interview
Living Large, KLCC Public Radio
Eugene, OR

Friday, November 2
“Words on Fire: Toward a New Language of Wildland Fire”
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR

Tuesday, December 4
Keynote presentation
Fifth International Fire Ecology and Management Congress
9:50 a.m.
Booksigning during evening poster session
Portland Oregon Convention Center
Portland, OR

Friday, December 7
6:30 pm wine reception for pre-registered guests; 7pm talk
First Friday program
Mill Valley Public Library
375 Throckmorton Ave.
Mill Valley, CA

2011

Friday, July 8
8 pm
Henry Miller Library
Big Sur, CA

Thursday, July 14
7:30-9:00 pm
San Francisco Zen Center
300 Page St. (at Laguna)
San Francisco, CA

This special kickoff event will celebrate the publication of Fire Monks with a talk by Abbot Steve Stucky, a short clip from a film documentary-in-progress, a reading by the author, and discussion with wildland firefighters and fire monks from the 2008 and previous Tassajara fires.

Book signing to follow the program.

Thursday, July 14
1-2 pm
Live radio show, along with Mako Voelkel
Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders
Wisconsin Public Radio

Sunday, July 17
11 am
Green Gulch Farm
1601 Shoreline Highway
Muir Beach, CA
Book signing after the regular Sunday program.
Click here for info on the Sunday program at Green Gulch Farm

Monday, July 18
7:30 pm
Capitola Book Cafe
1475 41st Avenue
Capitola, CA

Tuesday, July 19
7 pm
Library Foundation of Los Angeles
ALOUD series
In conversation with Stephen J. Pyne and Bill Deverell
http://www.lfla.org/aloud/

Thursday, July 21
7:30 pm
Mrs. Dalloway’s
2904 College Avenue
Berkeley, CA

Sunday, July 24
9:15 am
Interview (with David Zimmerman) on KRON4

Tuesday, July 26
7:30 pm
Boulder Bookstore
Boulder, CO

Wednesday, July 27
8:35 am
Live radio interview, KGNU Morning Magazine
KGNU-FM (PRI/Pacifica), Boulder, CO

Wednesday, July 27
7 pm
Elliott Bay Bookstore
Seattle, WA

Thursday, July 28
7:30 pm
Powell’s Books
3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
Portland, OR

Tuesday, August 2
6:30 pm
Banyen Books
Vancouver, B.C, Canada

Thursday, August 4
7 pm
Armstrong Woods Picnic Ground
Guerneville, CA
Fundraiser for the Stewards of the Coast and Redwoods
and Russian River Fire Protection District
Hosted by River Reader Bookstore

Saturday, August 6
10 am
Berkeley Zen Center
1931 Russell Street
Berkeley, CA

Presentation and discussion during Saturday program
with David Zimmerman
Book signing to follow program

Wednesday, August 10
10 am
KWMR live interview
West Marin Community Radio
90.5 FM Pt. Reyes

Thursday, August 11
7:30 pm
Readers’ Books
130 E. Napa St.
Sonoma, CA

Saturday, August 13
7 pm
Pt. Reyes Community Presbyterian Church
11445 Shoreline Highway
Point Reyes Station, CA

Tuesday, August 16
6:30 p.m.
San Francisco Public Library
100 Larkin St.
San Francisco, CA

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