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Join alumni and friends of PLAYA Residency Program for Artists and Scientists. Mingle with former residents, come for the 7 p.m. keynote by PLAYA's Executive Director, Rebecca. Learn about PLAYA's new initiatives and how to stay in touch. Wine, light eats, and conversation. Contact: Rebecca Lawton
Annie Bloom's welcomes Oregon author Rebecca Lawton to read from her book The Oasis This Time: Living and Dying with Water in the West. Water, the most critical fluid on the planet, is seen as savior, benefactor, and Holy Grail in these fifteen essays on natural and faux oases. Fluvial geologist and former Colorado River guide Rebecca Lawton follows species both human and wild to their watery roots--in warming deserts, near rising Pacific tides, on endangered, tapped-out rivers, and in growing urban ecosystems. Lawton thoroughly and eloquently explores human attitudes toward water in the West, from Twentynine Palms, California, to Sitka, Alaska. A lifelong immersion in all things water forms the author's deep thinking about living with this critical compound and sometimes dying in it,…