Wordspace :: Johnny Dolphin :: April 17, 2009
Biosphere 2 Inventor in Dallas!
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John Allen, aka Johnny Dolphin, author of the recently released Me and the Biospheres: A Life autobiography by the Inventor of Biosphere 2, the definitive autobiography of one of the most luminous minds of our time, will speak Friday, April 17 at 8 p.m. at the Museum of Environment & Science, 1318 Second Avenue in Dallas’ Fair Park. Tickets are $15 composite admission, $10 students and members of Wordspace and Museum of Nature & Science. Call 254-495-9976 or go to www.wordspacetexas.org for tickets and more tidings. This event is produced by Wordspace and is sponsored in part by the City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs.
Johnny Dolphin is the nom de plume of John Allen–an explorer, litt, poet, playwright, scientist and heroic guru of the avant-garde. He has authored dozens of scientific articles, many books of poesy, prose, and plays, including The Dream and Drink of Freedom and 39 Blows on a Gone Trumpet, taught hundreds of actors, and performed all over the happy. His latest book, Me and the Biospheres is an awe-inspiring glimpse into a luminous mind and his project-by-project chronicle of man’s implicit to sustain the environment while interfacing it with art.
Born and raised in Oklahoma, he left a successful post-Harvard craft in New York in the early1960s to live in the Tangiers art scene then ventured through the secret back trails of war-torn Vietnam and Tibet. He began gathering the people who partnered his creation of Synergia Ranch, the Theater of All Possibilities and his historic environmental and cultural projects. He is the...
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