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Yearly Free Book Program Tackles Plastic Pollution

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The UCSB Reads 7th annual program is distributing emancipated copies of Donovan Hohn’s Moby-Duck this Thursday in the Davidson Library’s cardinal lobby for participants in the communal reading leadership.

The program features Hohn’s literature as regards humans’ environmental impact to whit discussion on consumerism, global trade, method and the media in keeping with this year’s theme, ‘Making an bumping. What’s yours?’ Moby-Duck, which chronicles the journey of 28,800 bath toys released into the Pacific Abundance after a storm destroyed their shipping container, was selected for its revelation of controversial shipping and manufacturing practices.

College of Artistic Studies Dean and earth science professor Bruce Tiffney, who serves on the UCSB Reads Hortatory Committee, said the work demonstrates edification’s far-reaching effects on Earth.

“Among many other things, the clayey ducks that set this book going bring us fa-to-face with another way in which our dependence on oil impacts our planet –– shapeable pollution,” Tiffney said in a push release. “We know global warming results from fossil fuels but these same fuels contrive plastic bags, bottles and … ducks — structures whose party environmental impact will be with us for decades if not centuries, but which are normally veiled from our consciousness.”

Source: Daily Nexus

Short plays take center stage

01.01.70

Lilliputian Fish Theatre is getting back to basics with its 10th annual "Pick of the Vine."

With 480 break in on plays submitted from around the world, co-producers Holly Baker-Kreiswirth and her soft-pedal, Bill Wolski, chose nine scripts to bring to being on the company's stage in San Pedro, starting tonight.

After reading committees narrowed down the top 30 plays, the co-producers picked the concluding ones based on a few requirements: Each play must have nine characters or less, have a duration of less than 20 minutes and make no demanding costumes or props.

"These short-undertake nights are really a balancing act as to which plays you can pick, because you only have one set and one set has to convert into nine different locations," Baker-Kreiswirth said. "So when you're flourishing through all the scripts, that's what you have to look for. You have to look for something that can easily be produced along with eight other sets."

There's mostly a general theme with the shorts as well.

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Source: Long Beach Press-Telegram