Events
Daniel Pink with Daniel Levitin
8pm (Reception: 6:30-7:30pm)
Daniel H. Pink
in conversation with Daniel J. Levitin
discussing his book,
When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing
Ann and Jerry Moss Theatre
New Roads School
Herb Alpert Educational Village
3131 Olympic Boulevard
Santa Monica, CA 90404
PURCHASE TICKETS
$45 General Admission Seat + a copy of When
$55 Reserved Section Seat + a copy of When
$20 General Admission Seat
$95 Reception + Reserved Section + a copy When
Daniel H. Pink is the author of six provocative books — including his newest, When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing. His other books include the New York Times bestsellers A Whole New Mind, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, To Sell is Human and Free Agent Nation: The Future of Working for Yourself. His books have won multiple awards and have been translated into 35 languages.
Everyone knows that timing is everything. But we don’t know much about timing itself. Our lives are a never-ending stream of “when” decisions: when to start a business, schedule a class, get serious about a person. Yet we make those decisions based on intuition and guesswork.
Timing, it’s often assumed, is an art. In When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing, Pink shows that timing is really a science. Drawing on a rich trove of research from psychology, biology, and economics, Pink reveals how best to live, work, and succeed. How can we use the hidden patterns of the day to build the ideal schedule? Why do certain breaks dramatically improve student test scores? How can we turn a stumbling beginning into a fresh start? Why should we avoid going to the hospital in the afternoon? Why is singing in time with other people as good for you as exercise? And what is the ideal time to quit a job, switch careers, or get married?
In When, Pink distills cutting-edge research and data on timing and synthesizes them into a fascinating, readable narrative packed with irresistible stories and practical takeaways that give readers compelling insights into how we can live richer, more engaged lives.
Daniel J. Levitin is a neuroscientist, musician, and best-selling author. He is the Founding Dean of Arts & Humanities at the Minerva Schools at the Keck Graduate Institute, San Francisco, California, a Distinguished Faculty Fellow at the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, and James McGill Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Music at McGill University.
Levitin has published more than 100 scientific articles, in journals including Science, Nature, PNAS, and Neuron; and over 300 popular articles about music, music technology, and cognitive science. His research has been featured in The New York Times, The London Times, Scientific American, and Rolling Stone. He has appeared on Good Morning America, The Today Show, CBS This Morning and CNN; and is a frequent guest on NPR and CBC Radio.
He is the author of four New York Times bestselling books: This Is Your Brain On Music, The World in Six Songs, The Organized Mind, and A Field Guide to Lies. His books have been translated into 22 languages. A TED talk based on just four pages of The Organized Mind reached one million views in its first week of release and as of 2018 has more than 16 million views. He has been a visiting professor at Stanford, Dartmouth, Harvard, and UC Berkeley.
Louie Anderson with Lori Greiner
8pm
Louie Anderson
in conversation with Lori Greiner
Hey Mom: Stories for My Mother, But You Can Read Them Too
Ann and Jerry Moss Theatre
New Roads School
Herb Alpert Educational Village
3131 Olympic Boulevard
Santa Monica, CA 90404
PURCHASE TICKETS
$43 General Admission Seat + a copy of Hey Mom
$53 Reserved Section Seat + a copy of Hey Mom
$20 General Admission Seat
Louie Anderson is an actor and stand-up comedian, named by Comedy Central as “One of the 100 Greatest Stand-Up Comedians of All Time.” From 1994 to 2001, he created and produced the animated Emmy Award–winning Fox series Life with Louie, based on his own childhood. He won his most recent Emmy for his costarring role on Zach Galifianakis’ Baskets. When not in production, Anderson continues to tour, traveling the States doing what he loves to do: stand-up comedy. Hey Mom is his fourth book.
Louie has been channeling his own beloved mom in his work for decades, but she passed away before seeing him reach new heights in a career-defining role inspired by her every mannerism, expression, gesture, and loving (or disapproving) glance.
Hey Mom: Stories for My Mother, But You Can Read Them Too is Louie’s way of catching Ora Zella Anderson up on everything that has been going on in his life. By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Louie ruminates on his continued struggles with food, family, and forgiveness—as well as the many things that have changed for the better. He also shares plenty of laugh-out-loud memories about growing up in a “20 percent Norwegian, 80 percent butter” family with ten siblings, along with wry observations on the absurdities of life that only a 40-year comedy veteran can make.
In his first book, Dear Dad, Louie began unraveling his complicated childhood and the demons he still battles. Now, he brings a voice that is older and wiser, but just as candid, funny, and often emotionally raw to Hey Mom, his account of turning challenges big and small into joy—aided by his mother’s strength, humanity, and enduring presence in his life.
Whether questioning why his mother stayed with his alcoholic father, extolling the creativity and camaraderie on the set of Baskets, grappling with the untimely death of his brother, learning to be kinder to others—and to himself, or revealing how he inadvertently caused legions of Romanians to proudly wear “cheesehead” hats, Louie brings bracing honesty and humor to every page.
Sean Penn with Jane Smiley
8pm
Sean Penn
in conversation with Jane Smiley
Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff
Ann and Jerry Moss Theatre
New Roads School
Herb Alpert Educational Village
3131 Olympic Boulevard
Santa Monica, CA 90404
PURCHASE TICKETS
$45 General Admission Seat + a copy of Sean Penn’s book
$55 Reserved Section Seat + a copy of Sean Penn’s book
* Signed books will be available for pick up at check in.
“It seems wrong to say that so dystopian a novel is great fun to read, but it’s true. I suspect that Thomas Pynchon and Hunter S. Thompson would love this book.”
—Salman Rushdie
—Douglas Brinkley, bestselling author, professor of history, Rice University
—Art Linson, author, producer of Fight Club and Sons of Anarchy
Geneen Roth with Krista Suh
8pm (Reception: 6:30-7:30pm)
Geneen Roth
in conversation with Krista Suh
This Messy Magnificent Life: A Field Guide
New Roads School
Herb Alpert Educational Village
3131 Olympic Boulevard
Santa Monica, CA 90404
PURCHASE TICKETS
$43 General Admission Seat + book
$53 Reserved Section Seat + book
$20 General Admission Seat
$30 Reserved Section Seat
$95 Reception + Reserved Section Seat + Book
Inspiring, personal, and often spiritual reflections on how women can find peace, make wise choices, practice everyday joy, and step into their power from Geneen Roth—author of the New York Times bestselling Women Food and God.
Geneen Roth is the author of ten books, including the New York Times bestsellers When Food Is Love, Lost and Found, and Women Food and God, as well as The Craggy Hole in My Heart and the Cat Who Fixed It. She has been teaching groundbreaking workshops and retreats for over thirty years and has appeared on numerous national shows, including The Oprah Winfrey Show, 20/20, the Today show, Good Morning America, and The View. She lives in California with exaltations of hummingbirds, her husband, and Izzy the fabulous, eating-disordered dog. Visit her website.
Krista Suh is a screenwriter, craftivist, artist, activist and creator of the Pussyhat and Evil Eye Gloves. Her mission is to make the world a safer place for women and help everyone validate their own creativity, femininity, and intuition. In her book, DIY Rules for a WTF World: How To Speak Up, Get Creative and CHANGE THE WORLD, Krista share the tools, tips, experiences, “rules,” and more she uses to get creative, get bold, and change the world. Krista is a powerful voice for doing more as she inspires others to create their own rules for living, and even a movement of their own, all with gusto, purpose, and joy. Visit her website.
“Geneen Roth’s early work pulled my sister out of the abyss of eating disorders. My gratitude and admiration for Geneen has deepened still with her newest book. In This Messy Magnificent Life, we experience her signature divine wisdom and hilarious humanity—but Geneen also gives us something new and important. Here, Geneen shows us how our individual body and food obsessions are directly linked to our collective oppression as women—and how getting free from our personal prisons is crucial to seeking liberation at every level. This is a beautiful, funny, deeply relevant book — a vital work for this moment.” — Glennon Doyle, author of the New York Times bestseller Love Warrior and founder and president of Together Rising
“This Messy Magnificent Life delivers a brilliant, funny, and frank offering at the stroke of midnight (just when we need it). By page ten you’re convinced she’s your smartest and funniest best friend. This Messy Magnificent Life is—dare I say it? Yep. Messy. It’s magnificent, hilarious and 100% the generous, complicated gift that is Geneen Roth’s imagination, experience and soul, on a platter. 2018 will be made easier to navigate with This Messy Magnificent Life by my side.” — Kathy Najimy
From the beginning, Geneen Roth was told she was too sensitive, too emotional, too curious, too demanding, too intense, and too big. Yet gaining and losing weight for decades did not improve her self-worth or reduce other people’s criticisms. Like most women who struggle with their weight, she believed that if she could resolve what seemed to be the source of her self-hatred—how and what she ate—she would be thin, happy, and free. That belief, she discovered, was false.
When her struggle with food ended—and didn’t change anything except the size of her thighs—she kept trying to fix other broken parts of herself with therapy, intensive meditation retreats, and rigorous spiritual practices. Yet it was only when Geneen stopped trying to change or fix herself—that she was at last able to feel at home in her mind, body, and life. Now, she shares the wisdom of giving up what Geneen calls “the Me Project,” and finding the freedom, peace and power that await us just beyond it.
With humor, compassion, and insight, This Messy Magnificent Life explores the personal beliefs, hidden traumas, and social pressures that shape not just women’s feelings about their bodies, but also their confidence, choices, and relationships. This provocative, enchanting, and sometimes laugh-out-loud look at the imperfect path women take to step into their own power, presence, and ownership is based on the author’s personal journey and her decades of work with thousands of women around the country.
Roth embraces everyone’s unique and often unsung potential and shows us how to be open, curious, and kind with ourselves; how to say no to people and ideas that hold us back; how to let go of grudges and anxieties; how to pick ourselves up after setbacks; how to say a resounding yes to the world; how to move from fixing ourselves to finding ourselves; how to find joy in the ordinary; and how to experience the extraordinary right here and now in our bodies.
With a foreword by Anne Lamott, This Messy Magnificent Life is a compelling and often quirky look at what it means to be an imperfect but unapologetic woman living a (mostly) magnificent life.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar with Susan Orlean
8pm (Reception: 6:30-7:30pm)
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
in conversation with Susan Orlean
Becoming Kareem:
Growing Up On and Off the Court
Ann and Jerry Moss Theatre
New Roads School
Herb Alpert Educational Village
3131 Olympic Boulevard
Santa Monica, CA 90404
TICKETS
Date of this event has changed to May 29.
Tickets to the new date can be purchased here.
$95 Reserved Section Seat + Reception (6:30-7:30pm)
+ a copy of Becoming Kareem
$40 General Admission Seat + a copy of Becoming Kareem
$50 Reserved Section Seat + a copy of Becoming Kareem
$25 General Admission Seat
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is the NBA’s all-time leading scorer, a six-time NBA champion and the league’s only six-time MVP. He is has a national platform as a regular contributing columnist for newspapers and magazines around the world, such as The Guardian and The Hollywood Reporter where he shares his thoughts on some of the most socially relevant and politically controversial topics facing our nation today. After 50 years as an athlete and activist, he offers his perspectives as a nationally recognized speaker who regularly appears on the lecture circuit.
Currently, Abdul-Jabbar serves as the chairman of his Skyhook Foundation whose mission is to “Give Kids a Shot That Can’t be Blocked” by bringing educational STEM opportunities to underserved communities through innovative outdoor environmental learning. A New York Times best-selling author, he has written 14 books, including two recent memoirs: Becoming Kareem for young readers, and Coach Wooden and Me about his lifelong friendship with famed UCLA coach John Wooden.
His Emmy Award-winning HBO Sports documentary, Kareem: Minority of One, debuted as HBO’s most watched and highest rated sports documentary of all time. In 2017 Abdul-Jabbar, an avid numismatic coin collector, was appointed as the first African-American to the CCAC (Citizens Coin Advisory Council) in its 100-year history, where he helps decide on all coins that are to be minted in The United States.
Before leaving office President Barack Obama awarded Abdul-Jabbar The Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor.
Susan Orlean is the author of eight books, including The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup; My Kind of Place; Saturday Night; and Lazy Little Loafers. In 1999, she published The Orchid Thief, a narrative about orchid poachers in Florida, which was made into the Academy Award-winning film, Adaptation starring Nicolas Cage and Meryl Streep. Her book, Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend, a New York Times Notable book, won the Ohioana Book Award and the Richard Wall Memorial Award. She is currently writing a book about the Los Angeles Public Library, The Library Book, which will be published in the Fall, 2018
Orlean has been a staff writer for the New Yorker since 1992, covering such subjects as taxidermy, fashion, umbrellas, origami, dogs, and chickens. She previously interviewed T.C. Boyle at Live Talks Los Angeles. (Video)
Diane Ackerman & Daniel Siegel
Thursday, March 15, 2018
8pm
An Evening with
Diane Ackerman & Daniel Siegel
celebrating the life and works of poet and philosopher, John O’Donohue
The Writers Guild Theatre
135 S Doheny Dr,
Beverly Hills, CA 90211
PURCHASE TICKETS
$30 Reserved Section Seat
$20 General Admission
A book signing follows the event
Presented in association with the UCLA Interpersonal Neurobiology conference
John O’Donohue is the beloved Irish author who won hundreds of thousands of international admirers with his now classic work on Celtic spirituality Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom and the bestsellers To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings, Beauty: The Invisible Embrace, and Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong, as well as numerous collections of poetry, including Echoes of Memory and Conamara Blues. Sadly, he died unexpectedly at age fifty-two in 2008 and the loss of his powerfully wise and lyrical voice has been profoundly missed. O’Donohue’s readers know him as both poet and a philosopher, sharing his Celtic heritage and love for his native landscape in the West of Ireland. He often traveled to the United States to give lectures, and would conduct workshops with Daniel Siegel, and with Daniel, Diane Ackerman and Jon Kabat Zinn.
Diane Ackerman is a poet, essayist, and naturalist. She is the author of twenty-four works of nonfiction and poetry, including three New York Times bestsellers: The Zookeeper’s Wife, which received the Orion Book Award and inspired a feature film (2017); The Human Age: The World Shaped by Us, which received the PEN Henry David Thoreau Award; and A Natural History of the Senses, which led to the PBS NOVA series, Mystery of the Senses, which she hosted.
Her other nonfiction includes One Hundred Names for Love, An Alchemy of Mind, a poetics of the brain based on modern neuroscience; Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of the Garden; Deep Play, which considers play, creativity, and our need for transcendence; A Slender Thread, about her work as a crisis line counselor; The Rarest of the Rare and The Moon by Whale Light, in which she travels the world exploring the plight and fascination of endangered animals; A Natural History of Love, a tour of love’s many facets; and On Extended Wings, her memoir of flying. She received her M.F.A. and Ph.D. from Cornell University.
Dr. Daniel Siegel is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine and the founding co-director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center at UCLA. He is also the Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute which focuses on the development of mindsight, which teaches insight, empathy, and integration in individuals, families and communities.
Dr. Siegel has published extensively for both the professional and lay audiences. His four New York Times bestsellers are: Mind: A Journey to the Heart of Being Human, Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain, and two books with Tina Payne Bryson, Ph.D:The Whole-Brain Child and No-Drama Discipline. His other books include: The Developing Mind (2nd Ed.), Mindsight, The Mindful Brain, The Mindful Therapist, The Yes Brain (also with Tina Payne Bryson, PH.D), and his upcoming book Aware (2018). Dr. Siegel also serves as the Founding Editor for the Norton Professional Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology which contains over sixty textbooks.