Join us on Monday, May 6, as we welcome bestselling author Amy Tan for an intimate discussion of her new book, The Backyard Bird Chronicles. Tickets are free. Registration is highly recommended.
In this presentation, Tan will discuss how she embarked on the journey that would become The Backyard Bird Chronicles, and share some of the surprising, sometimes amusing, and often spectacular drawings she made along the way. She’ll be joined by Dr. Caitlin Colleary, Associate Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology, for a wide-ranging conversation about writing and birding, identity and diversity, observation and conservation, and the restorative power of art and nature. An audience Q&A will follow.
Space is limited; registration is highly recommended. Tickets for this event are free, but donations are requested. Proceeds will benefit the aviary in the Museum’s Ralph Perkins II Wildlife Center & Woods Garden—Presented by KeyBank.
Phone: (216) 231-4600
2024/05/06 - 2024/05/06
Additional time info:
Museum doors will open at 5pm. At 5:20pm, Librarian & Archivist Joe Tait will briefly discuss the Museum’s bound first-edition set of artist John James Audubon’s Birds of America. Amy Tan’s presentation will begin in Murch Auditorium at 6pm.
To order a signed copy of The Backyard Bird Chronicles from our bookseller partners, please visit Loganberry Books. Preordered books will be held at Loganberry Books or available for pickup the evening of the event.
Cleveland Museum of Natural History
1 Wade Oval, Cleveland, OH