Posts by Live Talks Los Angeles
Lisa Ling with Michaela Pereira
Wednesday, September 14, 2016
8pm
Lisa Ling
in conversation with Michaela Pereira
discussing and featuring clips
from the upcoming season of the CNN Original Series,
This is Life with Lisa Ling
Ann and Jerry Moss Theatre
New Roads School
Herb Alpert Educational Village
3131 Olympic Boulevard
Santa Monica, CA 90404
This event is presented in association with CNN.
RSVP for Complimentary tickets
Award-winning journalist and author Lisa Ling takes her audience on a gritty, breathtaking journey across America, immersing herself in communities that are unusual, extraordinary and sometimes dangerous. Each episode gives viewers an inside look at some of the country’s most unconventional segments of society.
In season three of This is Life with Lisa Ling, Ling goes inside the cage with female fighters, attends a wedding behind bars, and learns to code with Silicon Valley teens. She explores legalized prostitution, investigates the ravages of America’s heroin epidemic, and uncovers state laws that allow rapists parental rights. In Los Angeles she gains unprecedented access to America’s largest jail, and in Philadelphia, takes a 360-degree look at how technology is changing the landscape of law enforcement.
Ling is also the host of an upcoming digital series, This is Birth, where she explores how healthcare legislation, income inequality and cultural shifts are changing how people have children in America. Before coming to CNN, Ling was a field correspondent for The Oprah Winfrey Show and contributor to ABC News’ Nightline and National Geographic’s Explorer. She has reported from dozens of countries, covering stories about gang rape in the Congo, bride burning in India and the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda, among other issues that are too often ignored. Ling got her start in journalism as a correspondent for Channel One News where she covered the civil war in Afghanistan at 21 years of age. She later went on to become a co-host of ABC Daytime’s hit show The View, which won its first daytime Emmy during her time at the show. Ling has also served as a special correspondent for CNN’s Planet in Peril series and is a contributing editor for USA Today’s USA Weekend magazine. In 2011, her acclaimed documentary journalism series, Our America with Lisa Ling, began airing on OWN.
Ling is the co-author of Mother, Daughter, Sister, Bride: Rituals of Womanhood and Somewhere Inside: One Sister’s Captivity in North Korea and the Other’s Fight to Bring Her Home, which she penned with her sister, Laura.
In 2014, President Obama named Ling to the Commission on White House Fellows.
Michaela Pereira is the host of HLN’s new three-hour daily news program Michaela. Live from CNN’s Los Angeles bureau, the show airs from 10am-1pm ET/7-10 am PT. She joined CNN in 2012 and was the co-host of New Day with Chris Cuomo and Alisyn Camerota. For nine years, Pereira was the co-host of KTLA Morning News.
Beyond her broadcasting achievements, Pereira is active in several community organizations working with at-risk children and teens. She served as a member of the board of directors for the Long Beach Boys and Girls Club; an advisory board member of Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA), supporting children in foster care; and co-chair of the advisory board of Optimist Youth Home, providing services for troubled youth.
Daniel J. Levitin with Larry Vincent
Monday, September 12, 2016
8pm (Reception: 7:00-7:45pm)
Daniel J. Levitin
bestselling author of This is Your Brain on Music, The World in Six Songs and The Organized Mind
A Field Guide to Lies:
Critical Thinking in the Information Age
in conversation with Larry Vincent
Founder of UTA Brand Studio
& Chief Branding Officer at United Talent Agency
United Talent Agency
9336 Civic Center Drive
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
PURCHASE TICKETS
$20 General Admission (on sale Aug. 12)
$45 Reserved Section Seat + Levitin’s book
$95 Pre-event reception + Levitin’s book
Levitin’s new book, A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age is an indispensable and funny primer on how to recognize misleading announcements, graphs, and written reports, and how to think critically about the stories and statistics we encounter on a daily basis.
Larry Vincent is the founder of UTA Brand Studio and serves as Chief Branding Officer at UTA. Over the last two decades, Larry has worked with globally beloved brands including Barbie, Disney, MasterCard, Microsoft, the NFL, Oakley, Playstation, Fisher-Price, and the Four Seasons. He is an award-winning writer and speaker whose last book, Brand Real, was selected by strategy+business magazine as one of the best business books of 2012.
Daniel Siegel with Paul Zak
8pm
in conversation with Paul Zak
Mind: A Journey to the Heart of Being Human
Ann and Jerry Moss Theatre
New Roads School
Herb Alpert Educational Village
3131 Olympic Boulevard
Santa Monica, CA 90404
PURCHASE TICKETS
$20 General Admission Section Seat
$43 Reserved Section seat + Siegel’s book
$30 Reserved Section seat
$95 Reception (6:30-7:30pm) + Reserved Section Seat + book
Dr. Daniel J. Siegel is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine, where he also helped to establish the Mindful Awareness Research Center. He also heads up the Mindsight Institute, an educational center devoted to promoting insight, compassion, and empathy in individuals, families, institutions, and communities. Dr. Siegel’s books include three New York Times bestsellers: Brainstorm, and, with Tina Payne Bryson, Ph.D, The Whole-Brain Child and No-Drama Discipline. As a lecturer, he’s spoken before King of Thailand, Pope John Paul II, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, at Google University, and TEDx.
Paul is the founding Director of the Center for Neuroeconomics Studies and Professor of Economics, Psychology and Management at Claremont Graduate University.
His latest book, Trust Factor: The Science of Creating High Performance Companies, uses neuroscience to measure and manage organizational cultures to inspire teamwork and accelerate business outcomes. His 2012 book, The Moral Molecule: The Source of Love and Prosperity, recounted his unlikely discovery of the neurochemical oxytocin as the key driver of trust, love, and morality that distinguish our humanity. In another obsession, Paul’s group uses neuroscience to quantify the impact of movies, advertising, stories, and consumer experiences. Along the way, he has help start several transdisciplinary fields, including neuroeconomics, neuromanagement, and neuromarketing.
Ron Meyer/Michael Ovitz/James Andrew Miller event rescheduled to September 29
Please note that our event with Ron Meyer, Michael Ovitz and James Andrew Miller on September 7th at the DGA Theatre discussing the book, POWERHOUSE: The Untold Story of Hollywood’s Creative Artists Agency, has been rescheduled to September 29. The venue and start time remain the same: Directors Guild Theatre, 8pm.Kareem Abdul-Jabbar with Jim Hill
8pm
in conversation with Jim Hill
WRITINGS ON THE WALL:
Searching for a New Equality Beyond Black and White
Ann and Jerry Moss Theatre
New Roads School
Herb Alpert Educational Village
3131 Olympic Boulevard
Santa Monica, CA 90404
PURCHASE TICKETS -SOLD OUT
$45 General Admission seat + a copy of Writings on the Wall
$50 Reserved Section Seat + a copy of Writings on the Wall
$20 General Admission seat
$95 Reception (6:30-7:30pm) + Reserved Section Seat
+ copy of Writings on the Wall
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is the NBA’s all-time leading scorer and a Basketball Hall of Fame inductee. Since retiring, he has been an actor, a basketball coach and the author of eleven books, many of them New York Times best sellers, including What Color is My World?, which won the NAACP Image Award for Best Children’s Book. Abdul-Jabbar is also a columnist for Time Magazine and The Washington Post, writing on a wide range of subjects including race, politics, age and pop culture, and his essays and columns have also appeared in the Huffington Post, in the Los Angeles Times and on Esquire.com, among other publications. In 2012, he was selected as a U.S. Cultural Ambassador.
Since retiring from professional basketball, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has become a lauded observer of culture and society. He now brings that keen insight to the fore in Writings on the Wall: Searching for a New Equality Beyond Black and White. He uses his unique blend of erudition, street smarts and authentic experience in essays on the country’s seemingly irreconcilable partisan divide – both racial and political, parenthood, and his own experiences as an athlete, African-American, and a Muslim. The book is not just a collection of expositions; he also offers keen assessments of and solutions to problems such as racism in sports while speaking candidly about his experiences on the court and off.
Timed for publication as the nation debates whom to send to the White House, the combination of plain talk on issues, life lessons, and personal stories places Writings on the Wall squarely in the middle of the conversation, as many of Abdul-Jabbar’s topics are at the top of the national agenda. Whether it is sparring with Donald Trump, within the pages of TIME magazine, or full-length features in the The New York Times Magazine, writers, critics, and readers have come to agree on what The Washington Post observed: Abdul-Jabbar “has become a vital, dynamic and unorthodox cultural voice.”
Jim Hill has been a fixture on CBS 2 in Los Angeles for more than 30 years. He appears on the station’s weekday 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts and also hosts the weekend editions of “Sports Central” – Southern California’s most comprehensive sports newscast. In addition, he co-hosts “LTV,” the Los Angeles Lakers pre-game show on KCAL 9, where he joins Lakers legend James Worthy.
Hill, who played defensive back in the National Football League, draws upon his experience as a player, his talents as a broadcaster and relationships with top athletes and coaches to deliver his award-winning sports reports.
Penn Jillette
8pm
in conversation with Matt Donnelly
Presto!: How I Made Over 100 Pounds Disappear and Other Magical Tales
Ann and Jerry Moss Theatre
New Roads School
Herb Alpert Educational Village
3131 Olympic Boulevard
Santa Monica, CA 90404
PURCHASE TICKETS
$20 General Admission Section Seating
$43 Reserved Section seat + a copy of Presto!
$95 Reception (6:30-7:30pm) + Reserved Section Seat
+ 2 books (Presto! and Every Day Is an Atheist Holiday!