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Wild Zones and Escuela Popular Escuela Popular, a charter school in downtown San Jose, California, invited Wild Zones' co-founders David Hawkins and Karen Payne to engage their students in creative activities in nature. The first event was an afternoon with environmental artist Zach Pine. High school students and staff of Escuela Popular created a temporary Wild Zone in Guadalupe River Park and made wonderful sculptures using natural materials. Check out the photos: http://homepage.mac.com/zpine/child/wz2007/wz2007.html
Wild Zones is working with educational and environmental groups on potential pilot sites at schools, nature reserves and parks in Silicon Valley - from San Jose to Palo Alto.
Wild Zones in Italy During March and April 2008 we will be in Italy working with city governments and NGOs on pilot sites for Wild Zones in Siena, Florence, Rome and Genoa. Other potential Wild Zone pilots We've had requests about creating Wild Zones in a variety of other places, from Memphis, Tennessee to Long Island, New York and further afield in India and Australia.
Public Talks "Play Around the Bay: Restoring Play at Home, in School and in the Neighborhood" David Hawkins, guest on panel January 26, 2008 Children in Nature Collaborative/'No Child Left Inside' David Hawkins and Karen Payne, presentation about Wild Zones November 8, 2007
Friday Lectures, Environmental Studies Institute of Santa Clara University David Hawkins and Karen Payne, presentation about Wild Zones October 12, 2007
Grants Wild Zones is grateful for the generous support of the Foundation for Global Community and the Sacred Heart Gift Fund of the Community Foundation Serving Boulder County.
"Let the wild rumpus begin!"
Did you ever feel your heart leap at that clarion call in Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are ? "Let the wild rumpus begin! " Yes, please!
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