Join the Library Foundation of Los Angeles and our vibrant community of supporters for the 2024 Literary Awards, honoring award-winning author Elizabeth Strout and long-time ambassadors Ela and Nikhil Jhaveri.
The evening will celebrate the Foundation’s support of the life-changing mission and impact of the Los Angeles Public Library.
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As the 14th Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Lonnie G. Bunch III oversees 21 museums, 21 libraries, the National Zoo, numerous research centers, and several education units and centers. Two new museums — the National Museum of the American Latino and the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum — are in development. Bunch was the founding director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture and is the first historian to be Secretary of the Institution. In 2021, he received France’s highest award, The Legion of Honor.
Secretary Bunch will be joined in conversation by Robin D. G. Kelley, UCLA distinguished professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History.
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Anyone on the front lines of caring for girls today knows that our daughters, students, and the girl next door are more anxious and more prone to depression and self-harming than ever before. The question that no one has yet been able to credibly answer is Why?
Now we have answers. As award-winning science journalist and writer, Donna Jackson Nakazawa deftly explains in her recent book, Girls on the Brink, new findings reveal that today’s growing girl crisis is a biologically rooted phenomenon: the unchecked bloom of social media and cultural misogyny that mixes badly with puberty, the onset of which is happening earlier. When this toxic clash occurs during the critical neurodevelopmental window of adolescence, it can alter the female stress-immune response in ways that derail healthy emotional development.
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Join Jarrett Walker as he talks about his new book, Human Transit, Revised Edition and offers guidance to achieve successful public transit that will enrich any community.
Transportation expert Jarrett Walker believes that transit can be simple, if we focus on the underlying geometry that all transit systems share. Jarrett’s gift is being able to break down the basic principles of public transit so that you may have the tools necessary to clarify and advocate for your own values.
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SAVE THE DATE!
The Council of the Library Foundation of Los Angeles presents: the 2023 Literary Feasts!
Intimate dinners. World-class writers. An evening to support the Los Angeles Public Library.
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The Open Mind is a free community lecture and film series that brings together thought leaders in science and culture for relevant and meaningful programs about mental health issues. Prior to the coronavirus pandemic, these programs were held in-person at UCLA but are currently presented on a virtual Zoom platform, attracting a national and international audience. We are honored that the Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital Board of Advisors has joined The Friends of Semel in support of the Open Mind.
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The Barbra Streisand Center was established in 2021 and made possible by the vision and generosity of artist and activist Barbra Streisand. The Streisand Center, housed at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women (CSW), will become the future Barbra Streisand Institute at UCLA, a forward-thinking institute dedicated to finding solutions to the most vital social issues. Streisand’s transformative gift helps to expand our combined centers’ reach beyond UCLA and Los Angeles, fund faculty and students, and support research and programming that seek to address critical issues facing people of all genders.
The UCLA Barbra Streisand Center invites you to the inaugural public lecture on the topic of Truth in the Public Sphere
The Center for Truth in the Public Sphere will be the first area of study and advocacy and will focus on truth in the public sphere, which Streisand is especially passionate about. Speakers and research will delve into urgent and existential threats to democracy, and examine how lies and the proliferation of disinformation can destroy a civic sense of decency, as well as entire countries.
Featuring
André Brock, Frances Haugen, Stuart Stevens
Moderated by
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About this Event
To celebrate 50 years of Verso Books we bring you Verso Live, a new virtual live events programme. We have selected authors to speak on a wide range of subjects including the future of work, what a feminist city might look like, how our virtual spaces have become the ‘new normal’, and how enslaved West Indian women played a distinct role in slave resistance. These events are free and will be live-streamed to Verso’s YouTube and Facebook pages fortnightly on Thursday evenings UK time, as well as being made available to watch after the event has finished.
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Brenna Bhandar, co-author of Revolutionary Feminisms, and Priyamvada Gopal, author of Insurgent Empire, discuss the media responses to Covid-19 and the kinds of discourse that are given a platform, as well as looking towards what sorts of new theoretical frameworks we might employ to think about what has happened.
Kids are binge-watching a slew of new shows that tackle the tough topics of sexuality and relationships with refreshing candor and raunchy humor. From the animated series Big Mouth to the teen comedies Sex Education and Pen15, Common Sense praises these quirky shows for normalizing awkward, complex topics in a surprisingly sweet and relatable way.
Join us for a conversation with two of the creators behind this pop-culture phenomenon that kids relate to and adore, an award-winning journalist whose work focuses on teens' sexual attitudes and behaviors, and a pediatrician whose specialty is empowering kids and adults to talk about the trickiest of all topics: puberty.
6:30 p.m.: Casual dinner
6:45—7:15 p.m.: Teens meet and greet with Bo and Nick
7:15—8:30 p.m.: Panel discussion with Q & A
8:30 p.m.: Dessert and coffee
SATURDAY AUGUST 25TH | 3:00 PM
ELLIS
In his large-scale and collaborative public works for which he is internationally known, artist JRemphasizes the humanizing power of art, centering the stories of common people in the public sphere. By providing his subjects with the means to represent themselves accurately, and allowing their own perspectives to take precedence, his photographic portraits of individuals pasted on walls serve to transcend physical, cultural, and economic barriers. Ellis, JR’s 2015 short film starring Robert De Niro and written by Eric Roth, presents a meditation on immigration in America from its early days to the present. Derived from JR’s 2014 UNFRAMED Ellis Island project, pasted photos of immigrants from around the world cover the walls of a bleak Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital, as a traveler contemplates the sacrifice, struggle, and promise of seeking refuge on American shores and defining this foundation of the American identity. By JR. Courtesy JR. 14 Minutes.
AI WEIWEI: NEVER SORRY | 3:30 PM
In Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (2012), director Alison Klayman shows the notorious artist as he navigates his global platform, and the challenges that it brings. With the internet and social media as his megaphone, as well as a rebellious public persona that receives global attention, Ai Weiwei strives to give voice to the struggle for freedom that many face around the world. By defying the expectations and standards of the government that presides over him, he stretches the possibilities and provides a model of expression for those in pursuit of their own voices. By Alison Klayman. Courtesy IFC Films. 91 Minutes.
Featuring artworks by Leonora Carrington, Enrique Climent, Mathias Goeritz, Robert Graham, Kcho, and Henry Moore
EVENT IS FREE. REFRESHMENTS AND POPCORN WILL BE SERVED.
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