Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Playing with Gibbons, Dancing with Kids: Lessons Learned from a Forest Odyssey"

"Playing with Gibbons, Dancing with Kids: Lessons Learned from a Forest Odyssey"
A joint PNHS-PPS lecture by Noah Jackson Wednesday November 4 @ 8 PM Panaga club - Teratai Room Noah Jackson comes to us with a rich background in SE Asia. A former Peace Corp Volunteer in the Philippines and a US Fulbright Scholar in Malaysia, Noah now works with indigenous communities in Borneo. He is an avid photographer whose work has been featured recently in The Expat magazine, The Malayisan Edge and Action Asia. He is currently dedicating his energies to establishing a non-profit organization, "Forest Voices" that will help document and protect the fragile relationship between the people of Borneo and their environment.
His talk will feature some of his beautiful photographs. He will tell us about the rewards and follies of working with forest communities in East Malaysia. To read more about his work and preview some of his images, see http://www.hopeinlight.com/