COMING UP
Tea importer David Lee Hoffman
"All in This Tea" Tracks Adventures
of Handcrafted Teas
Tea importer David Lee Hoffman travels throughout China in search of handcrafted premium teas in an upcoming film offered by the Sonoma Film Institute at 7 p.m. on Friday, March 7 and 4 p.m., Sunday, March 9 in Warren Auditorium. Directors Les Blank and Gina Leibrecht follow this adventurer as he discovers new teas and attempts to overcome bureaucratic obstacles to buying tea directly from farmers. Filmmakers Blank and Leibrecht and Tea Guru Hoffman will be on hand to answer questions at the Friday screening. A tea tasting beginning at 6:15 p.m on Friday, co-sponsored by Many Rivers Books and Tea in Sebastopol, is also scheduled. General admission is $5, $4.50 for non-SSU students and senior citizens, $3.50 for SFI members and children under 12. SSU students admitted free. For further information, phone 4-2606.
Water, Power & Politics with Andrew Roth
How has the relationship
between water and power shaped human life in California?
Sociology Professor Andrew
Roth discusses "Water, Power & Politics" at
7 p.m. on Monday, March 3 in the Stony Point Room, Ray
Miller Community Center, 216 E. School St. behind Cotati
City Hall. Roth teaches classes in environmental sociology,
sociological theory, language and society,
sociology of religion, and documentary film. He
will address this question by considering three different
modes of water control, and their social consequences for
California's history. This comparative,
historical perspective is offered to help citrizens better
respond to current dilemmas regarding water use in
Sonoma County. The event is part of the Cotati Creek Critters
education series.
Bell Explores Architectural Theory and Design
Roger Bell, Philosophy, presents "Building Upon Architectural Theory: Philosophy and Hammers" at noon on March 6 in Schulz 3001. Bell will discuss the relationships between his interests in architectural theory and design. The '70s into the '90s was marked by a close affiliation between architecture and philosophy with shared interests in semiotics, phenomenology of place, and post-structuralist concerns with spacing and displacement, etc. During this time and since, while actively writing on this theoretical convergence, Bell was involved in a number of design and building projects. With the use of images of these projects, Bell will comment upon how he understood the importance of theory to architecture and design. The event is part of the Art and Humanities Creative Works Forum.