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Theme for 2010
Pioneers of World Culture

 

 


 


 

 

 

 

Conference Room in Concord House

The life of man is a self-evolving circle, which, from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outwards to new and larger circles, and that without end.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Program for 2010
January 16 Film and Discussion: Can We Agree On Anything?
January 30 Lecture and Discussion: Building Bridges: Gandhi's Path to Tolerance
February 20 Film and Discussion: Macbeth
February 27 Live Theater Performance: Macbeth
March 13 Forum: African Leadership: Vision and Challenges
March 20 Book Circle: Stones into Schools
April 2 Excursion to LACMA: Renoir in the 20th Century
April 3 Forum: Glorious Beings Creating World Culture
April 17 Seminar: Cultures in Transition
April 24 Book Circle: Stones into Schools
May 8 Songs for a Brave New World: A World Culture for the Future
May 15 Book Circle: Stones into Schools
May 29 Panel Discussion: What is Universal in Shakespeare
June 5 Film: Learning from the Light: the Vision of IM Pei
June 12 Seminar: Architects of World Culture: Modernism or Traditionalism
July 3 Founding Day Program: A Sense of Wonder: Honoring Rachel Carson
July 10 Film Series: Louis Armstrong – Satchmo
July 17 Film Series: Music Within
July 24 Film Series: Eroica
July 31 Film Series: Nicholas Roerich
August 21 Filmed Seminar: Storytelling from Ancient New Zealand
August 28 Book Forum: The Color of Freedom
September 11 Seminar: Thirty-Six Facets of Glory: The Unaccompanied Cello Suites of J.S. Bach
September 25 Film: Bach and Friends
October 2 Forum: Practicing Gandhian Non-Violence
October 23 Seminar: Leadership for the United Nations Millennium Development Goals
November 13 Seminar: J. Craig Venter: Genomic Explorer
November 20 Seminar: Universality from the Perspective of Miguel de Unamuno
December 4 Seminar: Englightened Leadership: Essential Qualities and Shining Examples
December 18 Reception: Holiday Reception