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Nature photographer Frans Lanting will lead off this year’s Wallace Stegner Lecture Series for the Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST) on Thursday, Feb. 15, at 8 p.m., at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro St.
Mr. Lanting’s photographs have appeared in publications around the world, including the “National Geograhic,” where he has served as photographer-in residence. His awards include British Broadcasting Company’s BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year, and the Sierra Club’s Ansel Adams Award.
For the 14th year, Bill and Jean Lane of Portola Valley are sponsoring the lecture series dedicated to the memory of writer and environmentalist Wallace Stegner. Proceeds benefit POST, the nonprofit land conservancy based in Menlo Park that has preserved more than 50,000 acres on the Peninsula and Coastside.
Other lectures in the series will feature:
** Author and columnist Richard Louv, who has written about saving children from “Nature Deficit Disorder,” will speak Thursday, March 22.
** Adventure writer Tim Cahill, founding editor of “Outside” magazine, will tell nature adventures Thursday, May 24.
** For upper-level subscribers, local restaurant owner and sustainable food advocate Jesse Cool will speak Tuesday, April 24.
Tickets for the three-lecture series are $60. The Jesse Cool lecture comes with Patron tickets at $175, and Stegner Circle tickets at $325.
For series tickets, contact POST, 3000 Sand Hill Road 1-155, Menlo Park, CA 94025; call 854-7696; or go to http://www.openspacetrust.org
Single tickets at $22 each can be ordered from the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts at 903-6000.
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