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We all get excited about great ideas. It is in our nature to think—and think creatively. What is really

important now—in a time when so much needs to be re-worked, re-thought, resolved — is whether some

of the great ideas we come up with can really come to life. This year at the Aspen Ideas Festival, we are exploring the American

economy, the global economy, justice in our society, our natural environment, and the media—all to discover the serious problems

within each, and, even more importantly, the real solutions. our hope is to broaden the conversation, stimulate the thinking of

many, and begin to apply ourselves by implementing the best ideas on the planet. Join us to listen, discuss, connect, and act.

Through the week of this event, we welcome as many members of the public as our generous host venues can accommodate. We

look forward to conversations that spill out onto the streets of Aspen and throughout the communities of the roaring Fork Valley.

please join us

Ideas That Workjune 29 - july 5 2009 aspen colorado

FESTIVAL PUBLIC EVENTS AT A gLANCE

For morE INFormATIoN - www.aifestival.org or call 970 544 7970

moNDAY, JUNE 29 7:30pm Creating art Out Of reality: One evening, One ticket, two extraordinary Performances

Concert and Conversation with peter buffett

Theatrical performance and discussion:

“seVen”, a play

ASPEN DISTrICT ThEATrE

TUESDAY, JUNE 30 7:45am – 8:45am the World is Curved: Hidden Dangers to the global economy

hoTEL JEromE BALLroom

12:00pm – 1:00pm Human rights and Civil Society


8:00pm film Screening and Discussion: food, inc.

PAEPCkE AUDITorIUm

8:30 pm What’s the news Worth to you?


8:30pmObama and the Challenge of expectations: a look at the President’s first Six Months

DoErr hoSIEr CENTEr

WEDNESDAY, JULY 1 7:45am – 8:45am the ascent of finance…and the Descent of Democracy?


7:45am – 8:45am the Constitution in 2020

LImELIghT LoDgE

12:00pm – 1:00pm race and Humor


12:00pm – 1:00pm 1959

LImELIghT LoDgE

7:30pm – 8:30pm Will Obamanomics Work?

BELLY UP ASPEN

8:00pm – 9:00pm for Car enthusiasts Only

LImELIghT LoDgE

8:30pm – 10:00pm film and Discussion: ten9eight: Shoot for the Moon

PAEPCkE AUDITorIUm

8:30pm – 10:00pm the Bard and the Buck


ThUrSDAY, JULY 27:45am – 8:45am reSet: How this economic Crisis Can restore Our Values and renew america

LImELIghT LoDgE

7:45am – 8:45am the end of american exceptionalism?


12:00pm – 1:00pm How to raise a Drug free Kid: the Straight Dope for Parents


12:00pm – 1:00pm Water and the Changing face of the american West

LImELIghT LoDgE

2:00pm – 6:00pm an afternOOn Of COnVerSatiOn

ThE ASPEN mUSIC FESTIVAL’S

BENEDICT mUSIC TENT

7:30 pm Permanent Paper Buildings: Shigeru BanPresented in partnership with the aspen art Museum

PAEPCkE AUDITorIUm

7:30pmSure thing: an evening with Playwright David ives

BELLY UP ASPEN

8:00pm – 9:00pm the fate of Wildlife in Modern africa

LImELIghT LoDgE

9:30pm the news Has no ClothesPresented by Comedy arts Studiosin Partnership with The Onion

ASPEN DISTrICT ThEATrE

FrIDAY, JULY 3 7:45am – 8:45am last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from nature Deficit Disorder

LImELIghT LoDgE

12:00pm – 1:00pm the root Problem of the Middle east Crisis


7:30pm latin Music uSa: it’s gonna Move you

BELLY UP ASPEN

8:00pm Bigger than Carnegie, faster than Starbucks: Scaling literacy

PAEPCkE AUDITorIUm

8:00pm inspired to action


SATUrDAY, JULY 47:00pm “Studio 360” with guests They Might Be Giants

BELLY UP ASPEN

9:15pm america and the WorldhoTEL JEromE BALLroom

9:30pm – 10:30pm favorite Poems: Ours and yours

ASPEN mEADoWS rESorT,

hEFFNEr LoUNgE

Who kNoWS...

ThErE mIghT BE morE.

STAY TUNED!

tickets for the individual public events will go on sale June 22 through aspen Show tickets at the Wheeler in person, online at www.aspenshowtickets.com, or by calling 970.920.5770.

in person and online orders are encouraged. there is a $4.00 charge for orders placed by phone.

for information, please call: 970.544.7970

public EVENTSThe following programs are open to the public, starting at $20 per event. Space is limited, and the schedule is subject to change; please check the pages of The Aspen Times and listen to KAJX (91.5FM) daily June 29- July 5. For more information on the Aspen Ideas Festival, visit www.aifestival.org. Tickets are available starting June 22, through the Wheeler Opera House box office at (970) 920-5770 and www.aspenshowtickets.com, or in person at the Wheeler Box Office.

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Creating art Out Of reality: One evening, One ticket, two extraordinary Performances7:30 pm aspen district theater, $20

Concert and Conversation with Peter BuffettThe evening will begin with a concert and conversation with peter buffett, the emmy Award-winning composer and musician. While buffett has remained behind the scenes as a composer of jingles, movie soundtracks, and atmospheric sound collections for the majority of his career, he began experimenting with vocals and a more eclectic new wave sound in recent years. buffett is a composer, storyteller, activist, and philanthropist, and his work crosses all formats and genres and grooves together. All of this work supports important causes, as he will share with the audience after his concert. A special evening is in store with peter buffett on the piano, joined by renowned cellist, Michael Kott.

Peter BuffetMichael Kott

theatrical Performance and Discussion: SEVEN introduction by Congresswoman Jane HarmanSEVEN is a groundbreaking work of documentary theater that captures the remarkable lives of a diverse and courageous group of women leaders around the world. A collaboration by seven playwrights, the play is based on personal interviews with seven women in the Vital Voices Global Leadership network who have triumphed over enormous obstacles to bring about major changes in their home countries. The lives of these women provide a portal through which audiences will be able to experience a diversity of cultures while bearing witness to the varied ways in which individual women have overcome seemingly insurmountable hurdles to justice, freedom, and equality.

Panel introduction by alyse nelsonMarina Pisklakova Mu SochuaModerator anna Deavere Smith

monday, June 29 tuesday, June 30BreaKfaSt SeSSiOn

David Smick: The World Is Curved: Hidden Dangers to the Global Economy7:45 am hotel Jerome ballroom, $35

described by New York Times columnist david brooks as “astonishingly prescient,” david smick’s The World Is Curved picks up where Thomas Friedman’s The World Is Flat left off. smick describes the underside of globalization, the financial dangers looming just over the horizon. He argues that the economic model under which the world has been operating has crash-landed – and it’s time for a new financial doctrine for the twenty-first century.

David Smick

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Human rights and Civil Society12:00 pm hotel Jerome ballroom, $45

Independent civil society groups are at the front lines of change in their own societies. but in many places where they are needed most, they face intimidation by government and private actors, intent on preserving the status quo. How do advocates for human rights operate in these challenging environments? Human rights First leader elisa Massimino discusses these issues with Mu sochua, Cambodia’s minister of women’s affairs, and Marina pisklakova, an activist in russia hell-bent on offering a better life to women who suffer at the hands of their husbands (one in four); both of these valiant leaders share a commitment to combating human-trafficking in their respective countries and to raising global awareness.

Marina Pisklakova Mu SochuaModerator elisa Massimino

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film and Discussion: Food, Inc. 8:00 pm paepcke auditorium, $20

How much do we really know about the food we buy at our local supermarkets and serve to our families? In Food, Inc., filmmaker robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government’s regulatory agencies.

robert KennerModerator Corby Kummer

What’s the news Worth to you?8:30 pm hotel Jerome ballroom, $20

Where do yoU get your news? do you pay for it? Take it for granted? read the paper? Watch a screen? For those trying to understand the news consumer, it’s the dawn of a new era. What business models will save — or replace — advertising-driven newspapers, magazines, the nightly news and other time-honored systems? Who will you trust to deliver accurate information about our world — and how much would you pay for it? Top executives at AbC, TIMe, the Washington post, and bloomberg will consider what they know about today’s and tomorrow’s news consumers, plus the challenges and opportunities they all face.

David WestinKatharine Weymouthnorman PearlstineJosh tyrangielSteven BrillModerator Walter isaacson

Obama and the Challenge of expectations: a look at the President’s first Six Months 8:30 pm doerr-hosier center, mcnulty room, $20

political experts and insiders weigh in — and ask what you think.

Margaret CarlsonCharles Ogletreelinda Wertheimerfred WertheimerOthersModerator ron Brownstein

BreaKfaSt SeSSiOnS

the ascent of finance… and the Descent of Democracy? 7:45 am hotel Jerome ballroom, $35

Historian niall Ferguson draws on his recent best-seller, The Ascent of Money, to set the current financial crisis in long-run perspective. Just what will the political—and geopolitical—consequences of the crisis be around the world? past crises, like the depression, weakened democracy. Could this one have similar effects, destabilizing new democracies in eastern europe, destroying respect for parliament in britain, and propelling Communist China into a new position of economic parity with the United states.

niall ferguson

the Constitution in 20207:45 am limelight lodge, $35

What will be the great constitutional questions during the next decade? Where is our Constitution going and where should it go? yale Law professor Jack balkin talks about the future of the supreme Court and interpreting the Constitution in the age of obama. University of Texas professor sandy Levinson asks what’s broken with our system and what needs fixing.

Jack BalkinSandy levinson

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race and Humor12:00 pm hotel Jerome ballroom, $45

An exploration of how humor has been used to say what we often cannot about race.

ta’nehisi Coates larry Wilmore

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1959 12:00 pm limelight lodge, $45

Fred Kaplan, Slate columnist and author of 1959: The Year Everything Changed, takes a revisionist view of the late 1950s—an era that spawned the jet age, the space age, free speech, free jazz, modern rock, pop art, indie films, the computer revolution, the sexual revolution, the beginnings of superpower détente and the war in Vietnam—and examines its parallels with the hopes and perils of our own new Frontier a half-century later.

fred Kaplan

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Will Obamanomics Work? 7:30 pm belly up aspen, $20

The business press reviews 3 the historic economic agenda that president obama has laid out to date. Will his policies work?

Stephen J. adler, Megan Mcardle, David Wessel, Clive CrookModerator Margaret Carlson

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for Car enthusiasts Only 8:00 pm limelight lodge, $20

What are the most exciting four-wheeled memories of those who have devoted their lives to the auto industry? Hear from John devine, a former Ford and GM chief financial officer; paul Ingrassia, The Wall Street Journal’s former point man on the auto industry for two decades; and Csaba Csere, who tested over 1,000 cars during his 28-year career at Car and Driver magazine. This is your chance to learn what it’s like to drive the $1.5 million, 1,000-horsepower bugatti Veyron at 253 mph and to share your own experiences behind the wheel.

Csaba Csere, Paul ingrassia

wednesday, July 1

BreaKfaSt DiSCuSSiOnS

reSet: How this economic Crisis Can restore Our Values and renew america7:45 am limelight lodge, $35

Is this the end of American excess?

Kurt andersennancy gibbs

the end of american exceptionalism?7:45 am hotel Jerome ballroom, $35

American actions play on the world stage; this assumption has been a part of our politics since the first settlers arrived in new england. over the centuries, it has been used to justify foreign policies ranging from isolationism to interventionism, but each of these philosophies shared the belief that the United states was different—less a part of the world than apart from it, or even above it. Increasingly, this approach relied on Washington’s overwhelming military and economic power. yet, following the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, as well as the global financial crisis, America finds itself in a weaker position, and with a president who speaks of global leadership in a humbler fashion. Is American exceptionalism dead, and if not, what does it mean in the 21st century? sandy Levinson asks what’s broken with our system and what needs fixing.

niall fergusonDavid SangerMickey edwards Moderator J. Peter Scoblic

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How to raise a Drug-free Kid in america: the Straight Dope for Parents12:00 pm hotel Jerome ballroom, $45

nearly every child will be offered drugs or alcohol before graduating high school. The good news is that a child who gets to age 21 without smoking, using illegal drugs, or abusing alcohol is virtually certain never to do so. How to talk to your kids about drugs and alcohol. How to respond when your kid asks, “did you do drugs?”

Joseph Califano

Water and the Changing face of the american West12:00 pm limelight lodge, $45

Like any living organism, America depends on water. And today, especially in the critical and fast-growing Western regions of the country, water has become a defining issue: who owns it, who controls access to it, who gets to use it and how. Can we continue to live by the infrastructure and water allocations that

thursday, July 2

film and Discussion: Ten9Eight: Shoot for the Moon8:30 pm paepcke auditorium, $20

In the United states, a kid drops out of high school every nine seconds. Imagine if they didn’t. Ten9Eight from award-winning filmmaker Mary Mazzio chronicles the inspirational stories of several teens from low-income communities (from Harlem to Compton and all points in between) as they compete in an annual business-plan competition run by the network for Teaching entrepreneurship. These remarkable kids are all are striving to defy the statistics: 1.2 million high school kids drop out of school every year; and 50 percent of African American, Hispanic, and native American high school students will fail to graduate with their high school class. For many of these students, learning how to become an entrepreneur is destiny-changing.

rodney Walker, Mary Mazzio, amy rosen Moderator Steven Brill

the Bard and the Buck 8:30 pm hotel Jerome ballroom, $20

don’t believe shakespeare wrote about the economic woes and government machinations of today? you’ll doubt no further after seeing the witty “bard on bucks,” featuring prominent Festival speakers—adorned in pumpkin shorts and hoop skirts—who will dramatically deliver the bard’s quips on our woeful predicament. They’ll toss out “paper bullets of the brain” (Much Ado About Nothing), there will be “much throwing about of brains” (Hamlet), and they will have the whole audience saying, “Zounds! We were never so bethumped with words” (King John). Miss it not.

Ken adelmanCarol adelmanMichael ChertoffBob Schiefferlynda resnick

wednesday, July 1

andrew SullivanDouglas Holtz-eakinMeryl ChertoffJustice Stephen BreyerJustice Sandra Day O’Connor

we’ve used for the last 100 years? With climate change, population shifts, and more, the answer is clearly no, but what will replace the current system?

David Kennedy

afternoon 0f Conversation2:oo - 6:00 pm the aspen music Festival’s benedict music tent, $75

see page 7 for full program

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Permanent Paper Buildings: Shigeru Ban7:30 pm. paepcke auditorium, $20

Called “the accidental environmentalist” by The New York Times, architect shigeru ban will discuss his creative process, which extends beyond saving energy and the use of recycled materials into an exploration of people’s emotional connections to their living and work spaces. shigeru ban Architects (Tokyo/paris/new york) are currently working on the pompidou Centre’s historic, first satellite institution: the Centre pompidou-Metz in eastern France. ban’s extensive humanitarian work includes the design of low-cost shelters for individuals displaced by earthquakes and floods. He was a visual art and design finalist for the 2009 Aspen Institute energy and environment Awards. This lecture is presented as part of the Aspen Art Museum’s Architecture Lecture Series in collaboration with the Aspen Ideas Festival.

Shigeru Ban

Sure Thing: an evening with Playwright David ives 7:30 pm belly up aspen, $20 In recent years, david Ives has been the most widely performed playwright since shakespeare. It’s easy to see why: He is hilarious, original, and ingeniously touching. Tonight’s event includes a conversation with Ives along with a presentation of his comic sketch, Sure Thing.

David ivesactors: David ledingham, Paige PriceModerator Dana gioia

the fate of Wildlife in Modern africa8:00 pm limelight lodge, $20

African Wildlife Foundation Ceo dr. patrick bergin will present a vision and a program plan to make some of Africa’s most important large conservation landscapes sustainable engines of ecological and economic benefit—for the continent and the world.

Patrick Bergin

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eVening exCHangeS “Studio 360” with guests they Might Be giants7:00 pm belly up aspen, $20

Live from the Aspen Ideas Festival: The peabody Award-winning “studio 360” with Kurt Andersen, from public radio International and WnyC, is public radio’s smart and surprising guide to what’s happening in pop culture and the arts. each week, Kurt Andersen introduces you to the people who are creating and shaping our culture. This week, “studio 360” will air live from the Festival and feature musical guests They Might be Giants and other Festival presenters. Tickets are available for the public.”

“Studio 360” airs Sundays at 3 p.m. on Aspen Public Radio and on more than 150 public radio stations around the country. Check out Studio360.org for broadcast times, free podcasts, videos, and more.

thursday, July 2

BreaKfaSt SeSSiOn

last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from nature Deficit Disorder7:45 am limelight lodge, $35

richard Louv, chairman of the Children & nature network, speaks about the transformation in the relationship between children and nature—how society is teaching young people to avoid direct experience in nature. That unintended message is delivered by schools, families, even organizations devoted to the outdoors, and codified into the legal and regulatory structures of many of our local communities. Louv describes the new body of scientific evidence, demonstrating just how important direct contact with the outdoors is to healthy child development—touching on such health issues as AdHd, childhood obesity, stress, creativity, and cognitive functioning. To stimulate a “Leave no Child Indoors” movement, Louv offers practical suggestions for action by parents, grandparents, government agencies, conservationists, urban planners, educators, and others concerned about the future of childhood and the earth itself.

richard louv

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the root Problem of the Middle east Crisis12:00 pm hotel Jerome ballroom, $45

Whether, when, and how we should make moral assessments of the actions and values of different cultures.

Dennis Prager

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Latin Music USA: it’s gonna Move you7:30 pm belly up aspen, $20

A groundbreaking musical exploration, Latin Music USA is a four-part pbs film series premiering on october 12, 2009. The films highlight the great American music created by Latinos over five decades and celebrate the Latin rhythms at

Friday, July 3

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the news Has no Clothes9:30 pm, aspen district theatre, $20 Presented by Comedy arts Studios, in Partnership with The Onion

The News Has No Clothes — with Lewis black, d.L. Hughley, dana perino, Larry Wilmore, anchored by Kurt Andersen, and featuring satirical comedy pieces from Harry shearer and The Onion — is an irreverent take on the biggest news stories in politics, culture, and hot-button issues with an all-star group of newsmakers and comics. Featuring live performances and genuine debate with many of the featured guests at the Aspen Ideas Festival, this one-time-only event is guaranteed to make its own hilarious headlines.

the heart of jazz, rock, country, and rhythm and blues. Join bobby sanabria—percussionist, composer, recording artist, conductor, educator, multi-cultural warrior, and multiple Grammy nominee—for film clips, music, and an on-stage conversation with the series’ executive producer elizabeth deane and producer pamela A. Aguilar.

Pamela aguilarelizabeith DeaneBobby Sanabria

Bigger than Carnegie, faster than Starbucks: Scaling literacy 8:oo pm paepcke auditorium, $20

room to read’s John Wood uses scale and vision to deliver books and literacy to millions of children across the developing world. A discussion on the formation of room to read: What was the inspiration? how did we get it off the ground?, what challenges were there?, how has it expanded so quickly?

John Wood Moderator Jane Wales

SPeCial eVent: inspired to action8:oo pm hotel Jerome ballroom, $20

Meet William, who at 14, harnessed the wind to power his village in Malawi. Meet Logan and darius who are spreading the word -- from a wheelchair that defines cool -- about duchenne Muscular dystrophy, the number one genetic killer of children in the U.s. Meet Ana, who at age 11, founded peruvian Hearts to provide a better life for child orphans in her native country. Meet palwasha, who at age 17, has courageously begun a women’s movement in Afghanistan. Co-hosted by Global nomads Group and the bezos scholars program, and moderated by Anna deavere smith, this panel will explore the personal stories of five extraordinary young leaders. Learn what triggers innovation and leave inspired!

Presented by the Bezos Scholars Program and the global nomads groupPalwasha Zarifi, William Kamkwamba, ana Dodson, Darius Weems, logan SmalleyModerator anna Deavere Smith

saturday, July 4america and the World 9:15 pm hotel Jerome ballroom, $20

After the fireworks, ambassadors from the United Kingdom, Japan, Morocco, and syria offer diverse and insightful perspectives on America’s image, challenges, and responsibilities in the world today.ichiro Sujisaki, Sir nigel Sheinwald, aziz Mekuoar, imad MoustaphaModerator Steve redisch

favorite Poems: Ours and yours9:30 pm aspen meadows resort, heFFner lounge, $20

poetry should be a pleasure, but it is often presented in ways that even smart people find intimidating. Tonight, two leading American poets will share their favorite poems in an informal atmosphere. And they invite audience members to bring favorite poems of their own to share.

elizabeth alexanderDana gioia Sponsored by Thomson Reuters

eriC lanDer Co-Chair, president’s Council of Advisors on

science and Technology; Founding director, broad Institute; professor, MIT and Harvard Medical school

StePHen Breyer Associate Justice, supreme Court of the

United states

MaDeleine alBrigHt founder, The Albright Group, LLC; former

Us secretary of state; Trustee, The Aspen Institute

JaMeS a. BaKer iii senior partner, baker botts, LLp; former Us secretary of state

MODeratOr: CHarlie rOSe executive editor and Anchor, “Charlie rose”

eriC HOlDer Us Attorney General

BOB SCHieffer Chief Washington Correspondent, Cbs

news; Moderator, “Face the nation”

eliZaBetH alexanDer poet; professor and Chair, African

American studies department, yale University

anna DeaVere SMitH pulitzer prize-nominated playwright and

Actress; professor, new york University; Trustee, The Aspen Institute

thursday, July 2 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm [doors open at 1:30 pm]

Students of the aspen Music festival and School perform Copland’s Fanfare for the Common ManJames feddeck, conductor

reading the Human genome - Science, Medicine, & Society in the 21st Centurya talk by biologist and leader of the Human genome Project eric lander

a Conversation with Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer interviewer Charles Ogletree

is Peace Possible? the future of israel, Palestine, and america in the Middle east

Secretaries of State Madeleine albright and James a. Baker iii Moderator Charlie rose

a Conversation with attorney general eric Holder interviewer Bob Schieffer

the financial Collapse and the Developing WorldPeruvian nobel laureate Hernando de Soto and former uS Secretary of State Madeleine albright will explore the impact and opportunities of the current recession for some of the world’s most vulnerable people.

an american VoiceA conversation with 2009 presidential inaugural poet and scholar elizabeth alexander. interviewer anna Deavere Smith

an afternoon of CoNVErSATIoN at the aspen music Festival’s benedict music tent $75

Creating art Out of reality: One evening, One ticket, two extraordinary PerformancesJune 29, 7:30 pm, aspen district theatre, $20

Concert and Conversation with Peter BuffettThe evening will begin with a concert and conversation with peter buffett, the emmy Award-winning composer and musician. While buffett has remained behind the scenes as a composer of jingles, movie soundtracks, and atmospheric sound collections for the majority of his career, he began experimenting with vocals and a more eclectic new wave sound in recent years. buffett is a composer, storyteller, activist, and philanthropist, and his work crosses all formats and genres and grooves together. All of his work supports important causes, as he will share with the audience after his concert. A special evening is in store with peter buffett on the piano, joined by renowned cellist, Michael Kott. Peter Buffett, Michael Kott

theatrical Performance and Discussion: SEVEN introduction by Congresswoman Jane HarmanSEVEN is a groundbreaking work of documentary theater that captures the remarkable lives of a diverse and courageous group of women leaders around the world. A collaboration by seven playwrights, the play is based on personal interviews with seven women in the Vital Voices Global Leadership network who have triumphed over enormous obstacles to bring about major changes in their home countries. The lives of these women provide a portal through which audiences will be able to experience a diversity of cultures while bearing witness to the varied ways in which individual women have overcome seemingly insurmountable hurdles to justice, freedom, and equality. After this powerful performance, Anna deavere smith, one of the playwrights, will lead a discussion with two of the real women featured in the play.Panel introduction by alyse nelson. Marina Pisklakova, Mu Sochua Moderator anna Deavere Smith

Food, Inc: film Screening and Discussion June 30, 8:00 pm, paepcke auditorium, $20

How much do we really know about the food we buy at our local supermarkets and serve to our families? In Food, Inc., filmmaker robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government’s regulatory agencies. robert Kenner Moderator Corby Kummer film and Discussion: Ten9Eight: Shoot for the MoonJuly 1, 8:30 pm, paepcke auditorium, $20

In the United states, a kid drops out of high school every nine seconds. Imagine if they didn’t. Ten9Eight from award-winning filmmaker Mary Mazzio chronicles the inspirational stories of several teens from low-income communities (from Harlem to Compton and all points in between) as they compete in an annual business-plan competition run by the network for Teaching entrepreneurship. These remarkable kids are all are striving to defy the statistics: 1.2 million high school kids drop out of school every year; and 50 percent of African American, Hispanic, and native American high school students will fail to graduate with their high school class. For many of these students, learning how to become an entrepreneur is destiny-changing. rodney Walker, Mary Mazzio, amy rosen Moderator Steven Brill

the news Has no ClothesJuly 2, 9:30 pm, aspen district theatre, $20 Presented by Comedy arts Studios, in Partnership with The OnionThe News Has No Clothes — with Lewis black, d.L. Hughley, dana perino, Larry Wilmore, anchored by Kurt Andersen, and featuring satirical comedy pieces from Harry shearer and The Onion — is an irreverent take on the biggest news stories in politics, culture, and hot-button issues with an all-star group of newsmakers and comics. Featuring live performances and genuine debate with many of the featured guests at the Aspen Ideas Festival, this one-time-only event is guaranteed to make its own hilarious headlines.

Latin Music USA: it’s gonna Move you July 3, 7:30 pm – 8:30pm, belly up aspen, $20A groundbreaking musical exploration, Latin Music USA is a four-part pbs film series premiering on october 12, 2009. The films highlight the great American music created by Latinos over five decades and celebrate the Latin rhythms at the heart of jazz, rock, country, and rhythm and blues. Join bobby sanabria—percussionist, composer, recording artist, conductor, educator, multi-cultural warrior, and multiple Grammy nominee — for film clips, music, and an on-stage conversation with the series’ executive producer elizabeth deane and producer pamela A. Aguilar. Pamela a. aguilar, elizabeth Deane, Bobby Sanabria

“Studio 360” with guests They Might Be Giants July 4, 7:00 pm, belly up aspen, $20Live from the Aspen Ideas Festival: The peabody Award-winning “studio 360” with Kurt Andersen, from public radio International and WnyC, is public radio’s smart and surprising guide to what’s happening in pop culture and the arts. each week, Kurt Andersen introduces you to the people who are creating and shaping our culture. This week, “studio 360” will air live from the Festival and feature musical guests They Might Be Giants and other Festival presenters. Tickets are available for the public. “Studio 360” airs Sundays at 3 p.m. on Aspen Public Radio and on more than 150 public radio stations around the country. Check out Studio360.org for broadcast times, free podcasts, videos, and more.

favorite Poems: Ours and yoursJuly 4, 9:30 pm, aspen meadows resort, heFFner lounge, $20poetry should be a pleasure, but it is often presented in ways that even smart people find intimidating. Tonight, two leading American poets will share their favorite poems in an informal atmosphere. And they invite audience members to bring favorite poems of their own to share.elizabeth alexander, Dana gioia

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