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TED & PBS ANNOUNCE TED TALKS LIVE IN NEW YORK'S THEATER DISTRICT
Week-Long Series Marks TED's First Speaker Event in Manhattan, Offers Unprecedented Access for Students, Educators & General Public
Recorded For Primetime Broadcast On PBS, To Air Spring 2016
Hosted By
BARATUNDE THURSTON, Best-Selling Author, Comedian & Activist
Co-Hosted By
SARA RAMIREZ, Tony Award-Winning Singer, Songwriter & Actress
Featuring Talks & Performances By
PAUL CANTELON, Film Composer & Musician
ADAM DRIVER, Marine Corps Veteran & Emmy-Nominated Actor
JUAN ENRIQUEZ, Leading Authority on Genomic Code & Author of Evolving Ourselves
HECTOR GARCIA, Clinical Psychologist, Expert on PTSD & Author of Alpha God
HARLEM SAMBA, Brazilian Percussion Ensemble
SEBASTIAN JUNGER, Journalist, Best-Selling Author & Oscar Nominee for Restrepo
SAM KASS, Former White House Chef, NBC Senior Food Analyst & MIT Media Lab Fellow
SAL KHAN, Educator & Social Entrepreneur
JULIE LYTHCOTT-HAIMS, Academic & Best-Selling Author of How to Raise an Adult
ANDREW MANGINO, CEO & Co-Founder of The Future Project
ANGELA McCLUSKEY, Grammy-Nominated Singer & Songwriter
LATIF NASSER, Reporter & Research Director For Radiolab
VICTOR RIOS, Sociology Professor & Author of Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys DENA SIMMONS, Educator at The Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence
SIMON SINEK, Ethnographer & Leadership Expert
JOHN SCRAPPER SNEIDER, Jazz Trumpet Player & Composer
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT, Grammy-Nominated Singer, Songwriter & Composer
Additional Co-Hosts, Speakers and Performers To Be Announced Shortly
Six-Night Event Features Three Programs:
November 1 & 2: The Education Revolution
November 3 & 4: War & Peace
November 5 & 6: Science & Wonder
At The Town Hall (123 West 43rd Street) in New York's Theater District
(New York, NY) TED, the nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading, and PBS are thrilled to announce the first ever TED TALKS LIVE, a six-night speaker event featuring TED Talks, short films and performances at The Town Hall (123 West 43rd Street) in New York's famed Theater District. The series offers an unprecedented opportunity to view a TED event for FREE to students and educators who apply for passes online at ted.com/talkslivefree. Tickets for the general public are $100.
TED TALKS LIVE is a co-production with PBS and the Independent Television Service (ITVS), and is funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB)'s Diversity and Innovation Fund.
Featuring three programs over six nights, November 1 6 at 7:30pm, TED TALKS LIVE is hosted by best-selling author, comedian and activist Baratunde Thurston. Speakers will share ideas in quick, powerful talks 18 minutes or less, TED's signature format.
TED TALKS LIVE: The Education Revolution (November 1 & 2)
Co-hosted by Sara Ramirez, Tony Award?winning singer, songwriter & actress,
and featuring talks from:
Sam Kass, former White House chef, NBC senior food analyst & MIT Media Lab Fellow
Sal Khan, educator & social entrepreneur
Julie Lythcott-Haims, academic & best?selling author of How to Raise an Adult
Andrew Mangino, CEO & co-founder of The Future Project
Victor Rios, sociology professor & author of Punished: Policing the Lives of Black & Latino Boys Dena Simmons, educator at The Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence
TED TALKS LIVE: War & Peace (November 3 & 4)
Featuring talks from:
Adam Driver, Marine Corps veteran & Emmy-nominated actor
Hector Garcia, clinical psychologist, expert on PTSD & author of Alpha God Sebastian Junger, journalist, best-selling author & Oscar nominee for Restrepo Simon Sinek, ethnographer & leadership expert
TED TALKS LIVE: Science & Wonder (November 5 & 6)
Featuring talks from:
Juan Enriquez, leading authority on genomic code & author of Evolving Ourselves Latif Nasser, reporter & research director for Radiolab
Each of the TED TALKS LIVE programs will be filmed and broadcast as three one-hour specials to premiere on PBS in Spring 2016.
Weve been dreaming of this for a while, said TED Curator Chris Anderson. It's one thing to watch a TED Talk online, but quite another to spend a full evening with our speakers. Thats not just discovering a single idea, but an additive, powerful experience. Until now, live TED Talks have usually been limited to people willing to come to a four-day conference. Its exciting to be able to offer them to a much broader audience in New Yorks Theater District. It offers people a night out like they may never have experienced before. One that can give them new mental tools theyll own forever.
Each evening will feature TED Talks, short films, music and storytelling from some of the most talented brains in the country. As a producer, its hard to imagine a more exciting opportunity than bringing TED to public television. We're grateful for the tremendous support of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, PBS and ITVS. Together were able to curate a week of great ideas brimming with humanity and passion that will translate into terrific television, said Juliet Blake, producer of TED TALKS LIVE and TEDs Curator of Special Projects.
Public media inspires and educates Americans every day. This partnership builds on the innovative PBS-TED collaboration, sponsored by CPB, called TED Talks Education, which premiered in 2013 as part of the public media's American Graduate: Let's Make it Happen, said Pat Harrison, president and CEO of CPB.
PBS has always offered a wide range of programming that speaks to individuals looking to not only be informed, but also inspired, said Marie Nelson, Vice President News & Public Affairs at PBS. We are proud to partner with TED and ITVS to elevate these important conversations and bring them to a nationwide stage through PBS stations, station-branded digital platforms and PBS.org,
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