Past Event

Don Paul [USA] Author, Poet & Peace Activist

1st Dec 2010

Presenter: Don Paul
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Event Duration: 90 minutes

ONE NIGHT ONLY! 

Join us in the historic Old Council Chambers at Trades Hall for a very special evening with Don Paul.

Don was the youngest winner of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing at Stanford University, age 20 in 1971. He held the World Best for running 50 kilometers between 1982 and 1994 and qualified for the 1980 and 1988 U. S. Men's Olympic Marathon Trial. Paul is the author of more than 20 books, including four novels and four books of poems and since 1988 has led or produced more than 20 albums.

In the year 2000 he co-founded Housing Is a Human Right to work particularly with low-income residents of San Francisco's Bay View Hunter's Point district. Since January 2006 he has lived in New Orleans and worked with the organizations Common Ground Relief and Rebuild Green toward recovery for natives in southeast Louisiana.

A man of diverse talents (novelist, poet, musician, environmentalist), Paul is also focused on presenting practical solutions for a sustainable future.

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