PEA Sponsors an Evening with Jon Bowermaster - Writer, Filmmaker and Adventurer

Writer and filmmaker Jon Bowermaster’s recently completed high-def film, Terra Anatartica, documents a six-week long exploration of the Antarctic Peninsula by sea kayak. Though just-finished, it is already garnering awards: a finalist at the Blue Ocean Film Festival and winner of the "Ocean Issues" category. A six-time grantee of the National Geographic Expeditions Council, his 2007-2008 Antarctic expedition was the final in his OCEANS 8 project, which over the past decade has taken him and his teams around the world by sea kayak, including expeditions to the Aleutian Islands, Vietnam, French Polynesia, Chile/Argentina/Bolivia, Gabon, Croatia and Tasmania. Seeing the world from the seat of a sea kayak over the past decade has given Bowermaster a one-of-a-kind look at both the health of the world's oceans and the lives of the nearly 3 billion people around the globe who depend on them.

Mr. Bowermaster’s reporting on the relationship between man and the sea continues, with new films on the Galapagos, Louisiana and the Maldives in-production. His blog, Notes From Sea Level, gives him a daily forum for continuing the conversation with a growing audience. He is currently finishing two new films, What Would Darwin Think? about the relationship between man and the Galapagos and SoLA about Southern Louisianans and the water that surrounds them – creeks, rivers, bayous, the Gulf, the Mississippi.

Mr. Bowermaster is author of ten books, including Descending the Dragon about his travels in Vietnam, which was published in August by National Geographic Books.  He is also producer of a dozen documentary films. When not on the sea, Bowermaster lives in Stone Ridge, New York.

Mr. Bowermaster will be speaking at Annenburg Forum in Carswell Hall, Wake Forest University, on October 26, 2009, beginning at 7 p.m.  Free and open to the public.  This presentation is sponsored by PEA, Wake Forest University and Great Outdoor Provision Company.