Join us for intimate discussion with Megan Twohey, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter for the New York Times and co-author of SHE SAID: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement, and Virginia Prescott, the Gracie Award-winning host of On Second Thought for Georgia Public Broadcasting.
A criticially-acclaimed presentation and performance that tells the story of free speech in America through pop, rock, country, soul and hip-hop music. You’ll never see the First Amendment the same way again.
Join us for a fireside chat with Hollywood’s first female power agent, Stevie Phillips.
How do we keep the momentum going throughout 2020 by continuing to speak up, show up, and organize for change so that we can help women achieve parity in our lifetime? What are the actions that both men and women can individually take and what can we do collectively to push for systemic change?
This panel is designed for all gender and nonbinary people.
Join us at the Wortham Center for our Friday night headlining performance and interview with Americana/folk duo, Mandolin Orange.
We’ll talk about how to spot fake news, how to check your sources, and how marketing and advertising influences the information we receive daily.
Join us for an enlightening discussion on the principles and best practices for maintaining a story’s roots while adapting it into a new format.
Join award-winning Hollywood casting director Erica Bream for this informative workshop exploring the film and television industries best practices for casting.
For this reading, he will be accompanied by Bob Funck, a singer-songwriter in Durham, North Carolina who plays an eclectic brew of Americana folk-rock.
In this panel, we explore what fuels a story to grow from a news report to a movement, and delve into how to develop a cause, or story, to inspire a larger collective.
Our follow-up to 2018’s “Women in Media” panel, ELEVATE WOMEN moves the conversation about gender equality in the field forward into actionable best practices.
Join us for this discussion of how intense public debate can and has lead to things getting better for everybody, and how to utilize the tools of mediation and creativity to arrive at not just compromise, but a win-win situation.
This will be a discussion about some of the movements that have been successful and some that have not and ways to start your own revolution online.
Music has such a powerful impact on us in a myriad of ways; from acting as a universal language, to helping with memory loss to coping through hard times. This is a discussion about different ways to incorporate music to make our lives better.
Award-winning author, Tim Z. Hernandez, offers this engaging performance based on his book “All They Will Call You,” which chronicles his ongoing search for the lives and stories behind one of the most compelling protest songs of the 20th century, Plane Wreck at Los Gatos (Deportees).
In this open-ended Q&A discussion, you’ll have a chance to ask those burning questions about the film and television industry from a panel of knowledgeable and experienced experts, who all have strong track records in producing narrative features, documentary, and television.
This hands-on workshop is designed around a series of self-reflective questions to help participants gain clarity and courage to take whatever Next Steps will deepen their alignment with what their lives are calling-for from them.
Fireside Chat With India Osborne, Iz Web, & Dr. Jack Monell
Fireside Chat – Hosted by Bob Boilen with Sylvan Esso and Christopher Paul Stelling
Panel With Starhawk, Maya Lilly, And Zak Kilberg
Panel with Dr. Benjamin Gilmer, Jenny Halper, & Zak Kilberg
Panel and Performance with Johnny Irion, John Goodwin, And Jay Erskine Leutz
Panel with Bill Horberg, Lydia Diamond, Jason Lust, Albert Berger, And Scott Sherratt
Panel With Starhawk, Ben Sollee, Joseph Hudak, And Members Of Rising Appalachia
Panel with Joseph Hudak, Lori Knight, Natalie Hopkinson, Joyce Ferder Rankin, and John Marks
Panel with Lydia Diamond, Lori Knight, David Bruckner, Debra Immergut, and Ari Gold
