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Peter Donaldson's Salmonpeople Oregon Coast Tour 2007

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Peter Donaldson as Cyrus in Salmonpeople

The Johnny Appleseed of Salmon Nation!

BANDON 
October 4, 7:30, Sprague Community Theatre, 541-347-7426

FLORENCE
October 5, 7:30, Florence Events Center, 541-997-1994

ASTORIA
October 6, 7:30, Liberty Theatre, 503-325-5922

YACHATS
October 12, 7:00, Yachats Commons, 541-547-4734

NEWPORT
October 13, 8:00, Newport Performing Arts Center, 541-265-2787

LINCOLN CITY
October 18, 7:30 Lincoln City Cultural Center, 541-994-9994

NORTH BEND
Two Shows!Oct. 20 @ 8:00, and 21 @ 2:00, Little Theatre on the Bay, 541-756-4336

What's it like?

Peter Donaldson's performance is wildly inventive, funny and deeply moving. This is fully produced professional theater and sly storytelling at its best; Garrison Keillor meets Johnny Appleseed at Robin Williams' house! A one man show with everybody in it, SALMONPEOPLE is a tour de force of lyric cartography, economic soliloquy, First Nations legend and sweeping history. At one point he grabs a fat piece of charcoal and draws a huge map of our bioregion on a massive cement wall, naming 100 rivers, from memory!

You've got to see it to believe it! With good humor, good science and audacious storytelling, Peter Donaldson's SALMONPEOPLE reaches all ages, everybody's bottom line, and one big landscape. Since 2005, the Salmonpeople Tour has reached 3,580 audience members through 27 performances in ten cities receiving standing ovations every time. Swim!

What audiences are saying!

"I was positively stunned by Peter's performance of SALMONPEOPLE. We are all salmon people." David Williams, CEO, ShoreBank Pacific

"Performance after performance, including student matinees, Peter walked onstage, sucked everyone in, and didn't let them go until after the standing ovation." Scot Whitney, Artistic Director, Harlequin Productions

"Peter's beguiling approach helps people make connections to their families, kids, and our common future. It also helps people rethink their economic assumptions and enhance their stewardship behavior. He makes those connections with humor, insight, and good storytelling. Only when he is done, and people head out to their every-day lives do they realize that he has reached them viscerally and fundamentally. He helps people think more about what they do at work and in their lives. That's good theater."  Billy Frank, Jr., Chairman, Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission

"I was delighted not only by the remarkable theatrical quality of the performance, but also in its capacity to thoughtfully explore the salmon crisis while refusing to indulge in the blame that too often divides and polarizes our communities.  No small feat… like fitting together the pieces of a puzzle without knowing what the final picture will look like, SALMONPEOPLE merges waves of compelling and often hilarious revelations into an ever-simplifying ethos that we know simply as "sustainability".  Appropriate for all ages and all walks of life, SALMONPEOPLE is a masterfully-woven and thoroughly engaging story that should be required viewing for every resident of Salmon Nation." Mark Trenholm, Executive Director, Tillamook Estuaries Partnership

"I was riveted, wanting to see where the story was heading. The story unfolds in layers like an onion skin, each layer revealing deeper and deeper meaning. Never preachy, an utterly original and intelligently crafted work of art. It was a very moving experience." Joanne Day, Fisheries & Oceans Canada

"Brilliant performance! Peter connects with an audience in a most profound and unique way - one that fills each with the feeling that he is talking directly and perhaps, only, to him or her." Toni Sar'h Petrinovich, Whidbey Island

"Marvelous. I was totally drawn in, intrigued, and curious, and touched, and inspired, and entertained, and delighted and very grateful." Jean Eisele, Professor, University of Washington at Bothell

"My daughter and I saw SALMONPEOPLE and we both just loved it! We laughed, cried, and went home feeling hopeful, indignant and very, very moved. It was just magical." Catherine Clarke, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA

More than a Show!
In addition to the show, the Salmonpeople Tour delivers school, college and community leadership programs to explore ways to advance the principles and practices of sustainable prosperity. Get your organization involved in the Salmonpeople Tour.

Background on Peter Donaldson

Known as the Johnny Appleseed of Salmon Nation, Peter's spirited campaign is based on his ancestral relationship to salmon. His grandfather, Lauren Donaldson, Professor of Fisheries at the University of Washington, was world renown as a salmon expert. His father, Jack Donaldson, directed Fish and Wildlife agencies in the State of Oregon and the Columbia River Basin for two decades. Peter is a master storyteller, educational consultant, and innovative facilitator, with 25 years experience in supporting learning communities, managing non-profits, designing curriculum, building partnerships and promoting new forms of organizational learning around sustainability issues. Peter tours the Pacific Northwest with Salmonpeople every fall, when the salmon are running, and North America, every spring, with his other one man show, The Life and Times of Leonardo da Vinci.

Visit www.peterdonaldson.net and check out his story from Salmon Nation Voices