About this Event
This 42,000-kilometer walking odyssey follows the first human dispersal out of Africa during the Stone Age. Through his journalistic project Out of Eden, Salopek shares stories along the way through images, storytelling and audience Q&A, Paul connects the stories of people behind the headlines, across borders, and here at home.
42,000 Kilometers: National Geographic Explorer & Journalist Paul Salopek’s 14-Year Walk Tracing the Footsteps of Humanity
Sehome High School Theater | 6:30 PM
2700 Bill McDonald Parkway, Bellingham, WA 98229
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Paul Salopek is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and National Geographic Explorer. He began the Out of Eden Walk in Ethiopia in 2013, following the pathways of human migration toward South America. The ongoing project uses slow journalism to illuminate everyday lives and shared human experience. Its mission combines immersive storytelling with building a lasting community of storytellers of all ages. Learn more at OutofEdenWalk.org.
No pets, food or drink are allowed inside of the theater. Service animals and drinking water are permitted.
Photograph by John Stanmeyer / National Geographic
Paul Salopek wears a plastic cowboy hat in the remote Kyzyl Kum Desert of Uzbekistan.
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Sehome High School, 2700 Bill McDonald Parkway, Bellingham, United States
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