Walking Walden with Wen Stephenson and Jane D. Marsching :: June 20, 2013; 1:00pm :: Walden Pond, Concord, Massachusetts (Meet at Thoreau’s House Replica near the Walden Pond parking kiosk).

A walking event that reconsiders the radical politics of Thoreau in our time. Connect observation, environmental awareness, aesthetic action, and social change to the climate crisis now. We will walk from Walden Pond to Brister’s Hill, home of one of the first freed slaves in Concord and symbol of Concord’s engagement with the abolitionist movement. As we walk we will consider what is nature, what is changing, and what is radicalism today?

Wen Stephenson is a contributing writer for The Nation which recently published Thoreau’s Radicalism and the Fight Against the Fossil-Fuel Industry (a short version of Essentially Revolutionary: Thoreau’s Radical Moment — and Ours). He has written about climate, culture, and politics for Slate, The Boston Phoenix, Grist, The Boston Globe, and The New York Times. His Slate essay “Walking Home From Walden” was featured at the Thoreau Society’s 2012 annual gathering in Concord. He is a founding member of the grassroots climate-action network 350 Massachusetts, allied with 350.org.

This event is part of WORK OUT, an outdoor exhibition of the work of Futurefarmers, Fritz Haeg, Jane D. Marsching, and Andi Sutton who have each created alternative, sustainable engagements with the landscape in deCordova’s Sculpture Park. Through October 6 at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, 51 Sandy Pond Road, Lincoln, MA.

Field Station, Marsching’s project for WORK OUT, is a platform for data collection, citizen science, handmade and digital explorations of plant and animal life, and a conversation full of questions about the vibrancy of matter and our role in the stresses and resiliences of ecosystems.