Welcome!
The book project Passion for Place: Community Reflections on the Carmel River Watershed is nearing completion! Currently, the project is on Kickstarter, a fundraising website that gives the public the opportunity to learn and support all kinds of creative projects.
Click here to go to the Passion for Place Kickstarter page
Passion for Place is a book and CD project for and by the community and serves as a prototype for people in other communities. The book would not be where it is without all those who wrote for the book, granted interviews (44 total) and those who are supporting it through their generosity of time, expertise, and donations. In addition, Pamela Takigawa and Anne Greene have created beautiful drawings of flora and fauna that accompany the text and paintings/photographs.
This project is about creativity and the possibility of cultural change, understanding what ecological integrity means, and knowing that we are a part of that integrity.
When we live together with a watershed consciousness, we come to understand more clearly how our actions affect the greater whole. Imagine how life and business could be different if more and more people around the world became immersed in their home watershed in this way!
My goal is to raise $4000 or more on Kickstarter by February 24, 2012. These funds will go towards the printing of 1000 books printed on the west coast of this continent (not overseas) on 100% recycled paper. The total cost for printing is approximately $36,000.
I am very grateful to the following supporters of Passion for Place have made pledges totaling $2,880. through Kickstarter:
Diane Berthoin-Hernandez
Ariane Berthoin-Antal
Peregine Whittlesey
Cynthia Johnson-George
John Dotson
Elaine Bolduc
Laura Lee Lienk
Wendy Sinclair
John Brennan
Lynn Anderson
Rachelle Antal
Courtney Childs
Laurie Meyers
Stuart Thompson
Christine Williams
S. Gilbert
Ansgar
Debra
Julie Cason
Jean
Anne Jones
Jeannie Botelho
Peter Reynolds
Hans Lehmann
Marlene Lily
Ian Berthoin Antal
Thomas Christensen
The following supporters are donating via direct check based on the Kickstarter page. Donations total $150.
Laura Bayless
Stan Barton
Anna Beck
An additional $22,670 has been raised through fundraising efforts which began in 2011.
Those who have generously made these donations and/or bought paintings to support the project are:
Sophie Debukelaer (Painting)
Darby Worth (Painting)
Patrice Vecchione (Painting)
Susan Davis
RisingLeaf Watershed Arts
Hubert and Doris Fabre
Jennifer Brook-Kothlow
Gayle Cureton
Ian Neumann
Laura Lee Leink
Rima West
Berit Andersen
Darby Worth
Shirley and Don Thomas
Neil and Dale Agron
Sherry Smith
Dennis and Debbie Sharp
Donna Lawson Leisy
Patricia Oliveira and Luis Esteves
Mary Gale
Nellie Ryder
Anonymous
Alice Gill
Pamela Takigawa
Fred Bohlander
Barbara and Steve Brooks
Sylvia Shih
Bill and Pat Eggleston
Doug Westphal
Chris Fitz
Jane Parker
Helen Rose
Edward and Beverly Sigourney
Heidi Hopkins
Rosy Luke
Katherine and Gregg Dexter
Dr John F. and Nancy Bennetts
Mibs McCarthy
Elsa Con and Bucky Jackson
Peggy and Hebard Olsen
Elizabeth Murray
Val and Mildred Price
David and Lois Epel
Paul and Lynn Schafer
Mark Sietman
Karin Strasser-Kauffman
Donna Dormody
Thank you all for your support of this project!
The creative life is not only about creating art objects, but about how we, as a culture, can bring more creativity into all our lives to solve challenges, whether they are social, environmental, or political. Being an artist is about keeping open the creative channels with which we are all born so change can happen in beautiful and constructive ways.
All images copyright, Paola Fiorelle Berthoin, 2007-2011, unless otherwise noted.
Color variations from original to website viewing may not be the same.
