Interested in running with bulls, exploring historic ruins or deep sea fishing for blue sharks in Portugal? You can experience it all without ever leaving St. Louis.
The upcoming travelogue in the University's Travel Lecture Series titled, "Portugal's Places and Faces," will offer people these experiences and more.
The series, in its 101st season, is one of the University's oldest continuously running events. It is sponsored by the Washington University Association -- an organization dedicated to extending the University's resources to the community.
Participants this year have already journeyed to the Holy Lands, Italy, Cuba and the American Rockies through travel films narrated by award-winning producers. Upcoming adventures will take audiences to Portugal, Florida, Africa and South America.
The travelogues are at 6 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Fridays at Graham Chapel. Tickets are $4.50 per person per show.
The four remaining programs are:
- Feb. 5: "Portugal's Places and Faces" by Dale Smith, photographer and filmmaker. Smith takes visitors to the ancient harbor city of Lisbon to watch the colorful St. Anthony's midnight parade. In Porto, viewers will see the annual wine boat race up the Douro River, a cork harvest and cork as it is transformed into champagne stoppers.
- March 5: "Exploring Wild Florida" by travel film producer Richard Kern. Kern, a naturalist who lives near the Florida Everglades, will take participants to the Suwannee River system, home of the world's largest artesian springs; the salt water world of Biscayne National Park; the Florida Keys, and Peacock Spring's vast underwater cave system.
- April 9: "South Africa" by John Wilson, wildlife documentary filmmaker. Travelers will see everything from the Kalahari Desert to the Garden of the Gods, a landscape awash with wildflowers. They can pan for gold, tour the winelands or stand at the point where two oceans meet and watch sailboats round the Cape of Good Hope.
- May 7: "Where is Patagonia?" by Ken Armstrong, an award winning television documentary producer and co-founder of the Golden Gate Geographic Society. The journey to the southern part of South America retraces Charles Darwin's historic voyage aboard the HMS Beagle.
For more information or to subscribe to the 1999-2000 season, call 935-5212.
