Thursday, May 23, 2013, 7:30 – 9:00pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5. Double feature!
In the first event of a new and ongoing Civics thread focused on rebuilding economic security and prosperity for working people, David Madland, Annette Bernhardt, and Dorian Warren discuss the current crisis of income inequality, the low-wage recovery, and economic and financial prospects for working people.
Thursday, May 23, 2013, 7:30 – 9:00pm
Great Hall; enter on Eighth Avenue. $5. Double feature!
Dinosaur fanatic Brian Switek, author of My Beloved Brontosaurus, enriches the childlike sense of wonder these amazing creatures instill in us by investigating the latest discoveries in paleontology and breathing new life into old bones.
Tuesday, May 28, 2013, 7:30 – 9:30pm
Great Hall; enter on Eighth Avenue. $50-$700.*
In this benefit for the Charlie Staadecker for Mayor campaign, internationally acclaimed violinist Nadja Salerno Sonnenberg and pianist Kimberly Russ of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra perform a recital introduced by SSO Conductor Emeritus Gerard Schwarz, who also talks with Sonnenberg regarding her repertoire.
Tuesday, May 28, 2013, 7:30 – 9:00pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5.
Following in the footsteps of Christopher Hitchens, Roger Penrose, and even Stephen Hawking, Jim Holt—author of Why Does the World Exist? (a New York Times notable book of 2012)—offers an engrossing narrative that traces our latest efforts to grasp the origins of the universe.
Wednesday, May 29, 2013, 2:00 – 4:00pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. Free.
This free public session on the EPA’s proposed $305 million cleanup plan for the Lower Duwamish Waterway Superfund Site begins with an open house followed by a presentation, Q&A, and audience members’ oral comments.
Wednesday, May 29, 2013, 6:00 – 8:00pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. Free.
This free public session on the EPA’s proposed $305 million cleanup plan for the Lower Duwamish Waterway Superfund Site begins with an open house followed by a presentation, Q&A, and audience members’ oral comments.
Wednesday, May 29, 2013, 7:30 – 9:00pm
Great Hall; enter on Eighth Avenue. $5.
This exploration of the relationship between stable families, growing brains, and a child’s ability to learn features Seattle molecular biologist John Medina, author of the bestselling Brain Rules for Baby; William Bell, president and CEO of Casey Family Programs; and moderator Jack Faris, a member of Seattle Children’s Research Institute Advisory Board.
Thursday, May 30, 2013, 6:00 – 7:30pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5. Double feature!
In this double feature, UW researcher Makrand Sinha explores the P vs. NP question, one of computer science’s biggest unsolved mysteries, which asks whether every problem whose solution can be quickly verified by a computer also can be quickly solved by a computer, and Jingda Wu explains how NCQD could let us print our own solar cells.
Thursday, May 30, 2013, 7:30 – 9:00pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5. Double feature!
In explaining why digital efficiencies haven’t made us all rich, Virtual Reality research pioneer Jaron Lanier, author of Who Owns the Future?, presents paths to getting us back on track, advocating revolutionary concepts such as monetizing data now treated as cost-free, an idea that just might save our economy—and our human dignity.
Friday, May 31, 2013, 7:00 – 8:30pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $10-$18.
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
Gianna Angelopoulos, a former member of the Greek parliament, discusses how she headed Greece’s successful bid to host the 2004 Olympic Games, an achievement that led to her appointment, in 1998, as Ambassador at Large.
Saturday, June 1, 2013, 9:00am – 12:00pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. Free.
The Washington News Council holds a public hearing on a formal complaint against The Seattle Times by Dr. Richard Wollert, a Vancouver psychologist.
Saturday, June 1, 2013, 7:30 – 9:30pm
Great Hall; enter on Eighth Avenue. $18-$25.
Seattle Peace Chorus’ spring concert features music from Canto General, the epic work for which Chilean poet Pablo Neruda won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Sunday, June 2, 2013, 7:00 – 9:00pm
Great Hall; enter on Eighth Avenue. $16-$20.
Seattle Jewish Chorale concerts always present stories of encouragement and signs of hope: This year, the choir sings of travel, and of the courage, persistence, and grace it requires.
Monday, June 3, 2013, 6:00 – 7:30pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5.
Dick Falkenbury, writer of the initiative approved by Seattle voters in 1996 to “build, operate, and maintain” a 40-mile, citywide monorail and author of Rise Above It All, tells the story of the movement behind the failed monorail project.
Monday, June 3, 2013, 7:30 – 9:00pm
Great Hall; enter on Eighth Avenue. Free, but reservations suggested.
KUOW Weekday host Steve Scher moderates an in-depth discussion among seven of Seattle’s 2013 mayoral candidates on Seattle’s cultural community, and how its health relates to our city’s economic vitality.
Tuesday, June 4, 2013, 7:00 – 9:00pm
Great Hall; enter on Eighth Avenue. Free.
Internationally bestselling author Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns) has worked for six years on his new novel, And the Mountains Echoed—and this time, the writer called “a storyteller of dizzying power” by Evening Standard adds a whole new dimension to his work.
Tuesday, June 4, 2013, 7:30 – 9:00pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5.
Gallup Senior Scientist Shane Lopez, a leading authority on the psychology of hope and author of Making Hope Happen, shows how to mobilize the power of hope to improve our lives—and our children’s, and our neighbors’.
Wednesday, June 5, 2013, 7:30 – 9:00pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5.
In her wittily illustrated memoir of making a family, One Good Egg, Suzy Becker chronicles her travels through a maze of fertility treatments, considering and reconsidering how far she was willing to go to have a child.
Thursday, June 6, 2013, 7:30 – 9:00pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5.
Historian Kate Brown, author of Plutopia, explores the segregated communities created by American and Soviet leaders to contain secrets in Richland, Wash., and Ozersk, Russia.
Steve Keen: The Great Financial Crisis & the Great Recession: How We Got Here & the Way Out
Thursday, May 23, 2013, 6:00 – 7:30pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5. Double feature!
Economist Steve Keen, author of Debunking Economics, offers a compelling critique as to why economics as usual failed so badly—not only at predicting the crisis but also at finding its way to a real recovery.