Webinars & Presentations
Listening to Trees with author Holly Thompson
Join the Five College Center for East Asian Studies for a webinar with author Holly Thompson where she'll introduce her new book, "Listening to Trees: George Nakashima, Woodworker," a poetic and moving picture book biography celebrating the life and work of the visionary Japanese American woodworker George Nakashima. Growing up in the Pacific Northwest, George Nakashima began a love story with trees that grew throughout his remarkable life as an architect, designer and woodworker. Thompson narrates Nakashima’s life using haibun, a combination of haiku and prose, which twines smoothly through Toshiki Nakamura’s earthy illustrations.