The Art of Exploration: An Exploration of our Lands, Forests, Ancient Peoples and Wildlife

Fort Worth Community Arts Center
January 10 - 13

Public Lecture
The Green Handshake - The Global Forest
Diana Beresford-Kroeger
Fort Worth Botanic Garden - Auditorium
6:30 PM
Tickets $10

Six years ago, Imagination Celebration Fort Worth and Wings Worldquest (New York) created a special program which brings some of the world’s greatest explorers in the fields of air and space, water, earth, and humanities paired with artists and performers connected to the topics of their work, in a round robin of programs for students, which ignite young minds, making them aware of themselves as creators and explorers of the future.

Helen Thayer, was the first woman to trek solo to the Magnetic North Pole without a dogsled or snowmobile. She and her husband were the first people to walk across the Gobi Desert (more than 1,500 miles, in temperatures of more than 125 degrees), the pair also hiked above the Arctic Circle in the Canadian Yukon Territory, camping within 100-feet of a wolf den for months at a time, to document the complex family structure of these Arctic wolves. Thayer will present her experiences to inspire students to embrace integrity, demonstrate courage and assume responsibility for their actions.

Bill Oliver, singer/songwriter Bill Oliver, also known as Mr. Habitat, will perform dynamic, interactive original songs on environmental and wildlife issues. He is internationally known in schools, nature centers, museums and parks. His songs provide strong reinforcement for science and social studies.

Diana Beresford-Kroeger, a Canadian botanist, focuses on the beneficial uses of plants and trees, both as a source of medicines and other products as well as other more general uses by societies. This will help students make the connection between discovering and using various plants from around the world and determining the specific properties that make them so valuable.

Milbry Polk: Ms. Polk is the founder of Wings Worldquest. She was the last assistant to Margaret Meade, who was considered the most famous American cultural anthropologist. Milbry Polk is herself an amazing world explorer. She has traced the steps of Alexander the Great on a camel with her own team of Bedouins for National Geographic and has explored much of the ancient and current world. She is an acclaimed author and world lecturer.

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