Mountain Culture and Environment Speakers’ Series
Tuesday, June 24 • 7:30 p.m.
Max Bell Auditorium, The Banff Centre • Tickets $9
Mountain Culture Members and Arts Lover Passholders free
Banff Centre Box Office: 1-800-413-8368 or 762-6301
Presented as part of the 2008 Banff Summer Arts Festival
Steven Kazlowski has travelled by boat, sled, snowmobile and foot to document the Alaskan polar bear over the last eight years. He has accompanied native Inupiaq hunters on whale and sea hunts, and camped for weeks in temperatures below minus 45 degrees Celsius.
Kazlowski, a wildlife photographer, will offer a first-person account of his Arctic adventures, and provide a fresh perspective on climate change, as he presents his latest book, The Last Polar Bear: Facing the Truth of a Warming World, at The Banff Centre Tuesday, June 24.
As part of the 2008 Banff Summer Arts Festival and the Mountain Culture and Environment Speakers’ Series, Kazlowski will discuss the new hardships faced by polar bears in northern Alaska as their sea-ice habitat melts away. His book includes anecdotes of life among the bears, stories he collected from his own travels, as well as from Alaskans and Inupiaq elders. The book’s guest authors write about scientific, political and social issues that surround the effects of climate change.
Kazlowski’s photographs have been featured in Backpacking, Canadian Geographic, National Geographic For Kids, National Wildlife, Sierra and TIME magazines, and he has published several books: Alaska’s Bears of the North, Alaska’s Wildlife of the North, and Alaska Wildlife Impressions.
