Under the Dome
Celebrating the Ideas of a Lifetime

See Ron Campbell (R. Buckminster Fuller) as Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing at California Shakespeare Festival in Orinda, the Bay Area's premiere Shakespeare theatre. Attend a performance at"Cal Shakes" outdoor ampitheatre, a summertime must!

The following lectures will be held at the theater following each matinee performances. Lectures are free for audience members with tickets to the matinee or evening performances. They will begin after the matinee performance.

Wernher Krutein, Photographer

Born in Santiago, Chile, photographer Wernher Krutein trained himself under Buckminster Fuller and his godfather and namesake Wernher von Braun, the renowned space scientist. His images have been seen in publications from TIME and LIFE, to Billboard Magazine and TV Guide. He has taken more than three million photographs all over the world, and devoted the past fifteen years of his life to the cataloging and archiving of the best of these images, and those of a diverse and talented group of photographers. They can be seen at www.photovault.com.

Mr. Krutein's work can be seen of the lobby of Project Artaud Theater as a 40" x 60" mosaic, using 8,000 images which from a distance create a portrait of Bucky's face.

Jay Baldwin, Author of Bucky Works
Topic: Bucky Fuller: Ideas for Today

Jay Baldwin is a Buckminster Fuller biographer, and former student and colleague of Bucky's. He will be available to sign his book after the lecture.

Allegra Fuller Snyder (Bucky's daughter)
Topic: Experiencing Experience - and My Father

Allegra Fuller Snyder, Bucky's daughter, Professor Emerita of Dance and Dance Ethnology, UCLA, co-founder of the Buckminster Fuller Institute. People often ask Allegra, "What was it like to be the daughter of a famous man like Buckminster Fuller?" She says, "That is a very interesting question because the
answer can't be directly given. It necessitates going back into a little history. My father wasn't a famous man during most of my growing up. In fact, his 'birth' into the person that most would recognize as 'Bucky Fuller' occurred in the same year as my own birth, 1927." Image by: Wernher Krutein/photovault.com

Robert Kahn
Topic: Bucky the last Transcendentalist and the first 21st Century Man

Robert Kahn, Ed. D., strategic communications consultant and renewable energy advocate from Seattle, Washington. Kahn, a former young staffer to Bucky, explores how Fuller was simultaneously the last Transcendentalist and the first 21st Century Man. How was it that he could draw from so many eclectic sources and make infinitely more sense than the sum of them. What were the parts? Who was the man?

D.W. Jacobs , (Writer and Director of R. Buckminster Fuller: THE HISORY (and Mystery) OF THE UNIVERSE)


Mr. Jacobs is a director, writer, actor, teacher and producer. Before turning to theatre, he studied science, mathematics, literature, international relations and political geography. In spring of 1968, he took his first acting class and heard Buckminster Fuller speak. Full Biography.

Sunday, February 9th
and 23rd, 2003

D.W. Jacobs , (Writer and Director of R. Buckminster Fuller: THE HISORY (and Mystery) OF THE UNIVERSE)

Mr. Jacobs is a director, writer, actor, teacher and producer. Before turning to theatre, he studied science, mathematics, literature, international relations and political geography. In spring of 1968, he took his first acting class and heard Buckminster Fuller speak. Full Biography.

Jay Baldwin, Author of Bucky Works
Topic: Bucky Fuller: Ideas for Today

Jay Baldwin is a Buckminster Fuller biographer, and former student and colleague of Bucky's. He will be available to sign his book after the lecture.

Thursday, July 10th
thru
Saturday, July 12th

Kurt Przybilla, (Inventor of Tetra Tops®)
Topic: Tomorrow's Toys Today™

Come play with Tomorrow's Toys Today™ and meet Kurt Przybilla, inventor of Tetra Tops® , the Buckminster Fuller inspired, revolutionary , new, futuristic spinning tops from Duncan Toys, before and after the performances.

Not only are Tetra Tops® fun to spin, but they are also educational. Each top comes with it’s own trading card that teaches about the different shapes that are found in atomic structures. "People on earth are taught to think in squares and cubes even though nature does not use blocks’ to build,” says Przybilla, a teacher for the last 14 years. "All stars, planets and atoms are spherical .Understanding how spheres relate [to one another] helps to understand how nature builds."

Thomas Zung, (Former architectural partner of Bucky Fuller)

As a special suprise, Mr. Zung will be bringing the actual audio recording of Bucky singing "Roam Home to a Dome."

Mr. Zung was a student of Fuller’s starting in 1953 and, in 1968, with Fuller’s Synergetics, Inc., designed the elongated geodesic dome in Cleveland, Ohio. He worked on various geodesic domes, the Jitterbug sculpture, Tensegrities, the Fly Eye’s dome and Fuller’s last invention, the ‘Hang-It-All’. Zung was Bucky’s architectural partner for 30 years. The firm became Buckminster Fuller, Sadao and Zung Architects in the late 70’s with studios in New York and Ohio. He also serves on the Board of the Buckminster Fuller Institute. Zung recently wrote a new book, Buckminster Fuller: Anthology for a New Millennium, published by St. Martin's Press.

This lecture series is sponsored by the Buckminster Fuller Institute.

The Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization comprised of a diverse group of individuals committed to a sustainable future. Founded in 1983 and inspired by the Design Science principles pioneered by the late Buckminster Fuller, BFI has served as an information resource to students, educators, authors, designers and concerned citizens working to advance humanity‚s options for success.

Mission
The Institute's mission is to be a catalyst for awareness and action directed towards the realization of humanity's option for success. BFI intends to fulfill its' mission by providing:

1. dramatic graphic display tools, global progress indicators, and educational resources which foster vital understanding of evolutionary developments impacting the success of humanity on board Spaceship Earth.

2. programs and services which build synergy between individuals, projects and organizations in order to accelerate the development and application of solutions to crucial global problems.

Buckminster Fuller Institute · 111 North Main Street · Sebastopol, California 95472
(707) 824-2242 · (707) 824-2243 fax · info@bfi.org · www.bfi.org

GENI: Global Energy Network Institute
Two decades ago, both the United Nations and Buckminster Fuller determined that a sufficient supply of electricity provides the foundation for a decent standard of living. By tapping the planet's abundant renewable energy, the needs of all humanity could be met in an environmentally sustainable fashion. The technology exists today, and it is cost competitive.
GENI is a non-profit educational organization which seeks to accelerate the attainment of optimal, ecologically sustainable energy solutions. Check out the GENI website for more information.

Timberline Geodesics has erected a 26' diameter, 18' high Dome in the lobby of the Project Artaud Theater. Come and see this amazing structure and ponder your own Dome Home.
For more than 30 years, Timberline Geodesics has been dedicated to designing Timberline Geodesic Dome packages that make it easy, practical and affordable for people to construct their own homes. They are a leading manufacturer and designer of geodesic domes used for housing and commercial applications. Based in Berkeley, CA since 1969, Timberline had domes built in all fifty states and many foreign countries. They can be reached at 1-800-DOME-HOME (1-800-366-3466) or check out their site and explore how you can build your very own Dome Home.