Join award-winning author, scientist and ecologist, Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer for a live, virtual community conversation where you can learn the profound ways to live alongside our natural world.

Drawing from her book, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, Dr. Kimmerer will share important lessons of how we can build more respectful and sustainable relationships with nature, inspired by Indigenous wisdom and ecological science. Plus, you’ll hear new ways you can ask questions of nature using the tools of science.

This Community Conversation marks the culmination of 18 months of collaborative work between the Greater Toledo Community Foundation, Toledo Public Schools, Washington Local Schools, Toledo Zoo, Imagination Station, Toledo School for the Arts, Toledo Museum of Art, and Metroparks Toledo.

Inspired by the work of Dr. Kimmerer, this partnership led to the creation of a new high school curriculum created by Toledo School for the Arts, titled Ecology and Literature. This course engages students to explore thought-provoking ecological themes through classic and contemporary texts, personal essays, poetry and research projects.

This event will be recorded and live-streamed to a gathered audience in the KeyBank Discovery Theater.