Animals, Plants, Fun Guy!
I love animals, plants, fungi and everything else! Below is the schedule for my new theater show about animals who fly:
Fly thru Time with Leapin’ Louie Lichtenstein
And below that are links to fun movies, books and websites to get you excited about the oh-so-colorful and oh-so-weird animals, plants, fungi, protista, and bacteria that share this planet with us.
2024 Spring Schedule
Feb. 24, 2:00 Chehalem Cultural Center Newberg, OR
Feb. 25, 3:00 Birkenfeld Theater Clatskanie OR
March 2, 2:00 Liberty Theater, Ridgefield WA
March 3, 2:00 Alberta Rose Theatre, Portland, OR Tickets: here!
March 16, 2:00 Kiggins Theater, Vancouver WA
March 23 1:00 NCRD Performing Arts Center, Nehalem, OR
March 23 7:00 Festival of Illusions, LIncon City, OR
April 20, 2:00 Clinton Street Theater, Portland
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My favorite current movies celebrating biodiversity:
#1 David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet. It’s on Netflix Everybody needs to see this!
My Octopus Teacher – Netflix
Seaspiracy – Netflix
Mission Blue — Netflix https://www.netflix.com/watch/70308278/
True Facts videos by Ze Frank Youtube
My favorite books about animals, plants and fungi!
Spineless, by Susan Middleton Oh my god, I love this photography book of marine invertebrates
The Secret Lives of Bats, by Merlin Tuttle. Great adventures! You will love bats!
Moonbird, by Phillip Hoose The amazing story of the migration of Red Knots!
The Eternal Frontier, by Tim Flannery, An ecological history of North America
Lab Girl, by Hope Jahren a wonderfully written memoir with botany
Spineless, Juli Berwald memoir plus jellyfish science
Plankton, by Christian Sardet
What On earth Evolved? Christopher Lloyd has a few interesting books about everything
Origin Story, David Christian, A Big History of Everything
Cool websites about the ecosystems of Northwest coastal waters
https://themarinedetective.com/blog/
https://hakai.org/blogsandvideos/
https://www.centralcoastbiodiversity.org/
Ocean Wise videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMffQORhIPc&ab_channel=OceanWise
And infinite amazing bat photos! at https://merlintuttle.smugmug.com/