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October 9, 2015 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACTS: Matt Polk, Jeffrey Fauver, Kelly Stotmeister 917-‐261-‐3988 LINK: Photos & Bios
TED & PBS ANNOUNCE ADDITIONAL TALKS, PERFORMANCES & FILMS For
TED TALKS LIVE IN NEW YORK’S THEATER DISTRICT NEW PARTICIPANTS JOINING THE LINE-‐UP INCLUDE RAJIV CHANDRASEKARAN, YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, MESHELL NDEGEOCELLO, ANNA DEVEARE SMITH and many others! 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
Week-‐Long Series Marks TED’s First Speaker Event in Manhattan, Offers Unprecedented Access to Students, Educators & Veterans
(New York, NY) TED, the nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading, and PBS are thrilled to announce additional participants for 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. Participants joining the previously announced line-‐up include: Jeremy Bailenson, Sangeeta Bhatia, Christianne Boudreau, Daniella Carter, Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Thomas Dolby, Danielle Feinberg, Zaria Forman, Graham 2 Dance Company, Jim Green, Paula Hammond, Eric Haseltine, Yusef Komunyakaa, Nadia Lopez, Sean McComb, Meshell Ndegeocello, Samantha Nutt, Arati Prabhakar, Jamila Raqib, Anna Deveare Smith, Tierney Thys and Martha Wainwright. Each program will also screen two short films, featuring work by award-‐winning filmmakers Geeta Gandbhir, Perri Peltz, Greg Whiteley, Heather Courtney, Anayansi Prado, Jon Halperin, Mark Mannucci, Michèle Stephenson, Joe Brewster, David Alvarado, Jason Sussberg, Tony Gerber, Lynn Nottage, Denise Zmeckol, Max Solomon, and Ric Burns. TED TALKS LIVE offers an unprecedented opportunity to view a TED event for FREE to students, educators and veterans who apply for passes online. More than 1,800 tickets have been distributed to students and educators and are SOLD OUT, due to popular demand from applicants; FREE tickets are still available for veterans. Tickets for the general public are $100 with 50% off for active military to the War & Peace programs.
2 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) Daniella Carter, founder of Gender Global Harlem Samba, Brazilian percussion ensemble Sam Kass, former White House chef, NBC senior food analyst & MIT Media Lab Fellow Sal Khan, educator & social entrepreneur Nadia Lopez, principal of Mott Hall Bridges Academy Julie Lythcott-‐Haims, academic & best-‐selling author of How to Raise an Adult Andrew Mangino, CEO & co-‐founder of The Future Project Sean McComb, 2014 National Teacher of the Year Meshell Ndegeocello, Grammy Award nominated singer-‐songwriter, rapper, bassist & vocalist Sara Ramirez, Tony Award-‐winning singer, songwriter & actress
Victor Rios, sociology professor & author of Punished: Policing the Lives of Black & Latino Boys Dena Simmons, educator at The Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence Anna Deveare Smith, MacArthur Fellowship recipient, Pulitzer Prize finalist & theater artist Featuring short films by: Heather Courtney, Anayansi Prado, Greg Whiteley TED TALKS LIVE: War & Peace (November 3 & 4) Christianne Boudreau, mother of ISIS recruit & the late Damian Clairmont Rajiv Chandrasekaran, journalist & bestselling author Adam Driver, Marine Corps veteran & Emmy-‐nominated actor Hector Garcia, clinical psychologist, expert on PTSD & author of Alpha God Graham 2, Martha Graham School’s pre-‐professional dance company Sebastian Junger, journalist, best-‐selling author & Oscar nominee for Restrepo Yusef Komunyakaa, Pulitzer Prize-‐winning poet Samantha Nutt, bestselling author, humanitarian & founder of War Child USA and Canada Jamila Raqib, peacemaker & executive director of The Albert Einstein Institution Simon Sinek, ethnographer & leadership expert Rufus Wainwright, Grammy Award nominated singer-‐songwriter & composer Martha Wainwright, folk-‐rock singer-‐songwriter Featuring short films by: Joe Brewster, Geeta Gandbhir, Tony Gerber, Jon Halperin, Mark Mannucci, Lynn Nottage, Perri
Peltz, Michèle Stephenson TED TALKS LIVE: Science & Wonder (November 5 & 6) Jeremy Bailenson, founding director of Stanford University’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab Sangeeta Bhatia, biological engineer & professor at MIT Paul Cantelon, film composer & musician Thomas Dolby, musician Juan Enriquez, leading authority on genomic code & author of Evolving Ourselves Danielle Feinberg, director of photography at Pixar Animation Studios Zaria Forman, visual artist
3 Jim Green, planetary science division director for NASA Paula Hammond, head of the department of chemical engineering at MIT Eric Haseltine, technologist Angela McLusky, Grammy Award nominated singer-‐songwriter Latif Nasser, reporter & research director for Radiolab Arati Prabhakar, engineer & head of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) John “Scrapper” Sneider, jazz trumpet player & composer Tierney Thys, Marine Biologist & Science Educator Featuring short films by: David Alvarado, Ric Burns, Max Solomon, Jason Sussberg, Denise Zmeckol Each of the TED TALKS LIVE programs will be filmed and broadcast as three one-‐hour specials to premiere on PBS in spring 2016. EVENT & TICKET INFORMATION: TED TALKS LIVE is November 1 – 6, 2015 at 7:30pm at The Town Hall (123 West 43rd Street). Tickets are $100 and are available online at ticketmaster.com, and in person at The Town Hall Box office (123 West 43rd Street). For War & Peace, veterans can apply online for FREE tickets. Active military service members can purchase tickets at for 50% off using the code MILITARY at ticketmaster.com and in person at The Town Hall Box Office. ABOUT THE TED TALKS LIVE PROGRAMS The Education Revolution (November 1 & 2) What will the classroom look like in the future? How will on-‐line lessons change the way children learn and how important is it for teachers to be culturally relevant to their students? How do we stop the school to prison pipeline and ensure every child graduates high school? These are just a few of the questions we'll be asking and trying to answer with some of the brightest minds in the country, including Anna Deveare Smith, Sam Kass, Nadia Lopez and Salman Khan, music by Meshell Ndegeocello, and a series of specially commissioned short films by award winning film makers. War & Peace (November 3 & 4) Can we build a future without war? What does it take to bring peace? Join those who have experienced every aspect of war—fighters, journalists, psychologists, and more—for a look at the impact of war in the world. Learn how it affects every one of us in these extraordinary, passionate talks and performances from Adam Driver, Rufus Wainwright, Sebastian Junger, and many more vital voices. Science & Wonder (November 5 & 6) The final two nights at the Town Hall will take the audience on a journey through space, the human body, disappearing landscapes and the world of Pixar animation as speakers look at the future of nanotechnology, the power of virtual reality, the search for life beyond earth with, the science of light, the hybridization of human and machine capabilities and much more. Featured speakers include Pixar's head of photography Danielle Feinberg, MIT's Paula Hammond, NASA's Director of Planetary Exploration Jim Green, Radiolab's Latif Nasser and many others. The evenings will also contain, music, performance, short films and a surprise guest. ABOUT TED TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or fewer) delivered by today’s leading thinkers and doers. Many of these talks are given at TED’s annual conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, and made available, free, on TED.com. TED speakers have included Bill Gates, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sir Richard Branson, Nandan Nilekani, Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonjo-‐Iweala, Sal Khan and Daniel Kahneman. TED's open and free initiatives for spreading ideas include TED.com, where new TED Talk videos are posted daily; the Open Translation Project, which provides subtitles and interactive transcripts as well as translations from thousands of volunteers worldwide; the educational initiative TED-‐Ed; the annual million-‐dollar TED
4 Prize, which funds exceptional individuals with a “wish,” or idea, to create change in the world; TEDx, which provides licenses to thousands of individuals and groups who host local, self-‐organized TED-‐style events around the world; and the TED Fellows program, which selects innovators from around the globe to amplify the impact of their remarkable projects and activities. The spirit of openness is foundational to TED’s mission of spreading ideas. What was once simply a closed-‐door conference devoted to Technology, Entertainment and Design has become a global platform for spreading ideas across a wide variety of disciplines. Founded in 1984, the first TED conferences were held in Monterey, California. In 2006, TED experimented with putting TED Talk videos online for free – a decision that opened the doors to a radically new model for sharing ideas: today there are nearly 2,000 TED Talks available for free on TED.com, which are viewed close to a million times a day, with more than two and a half billion views total. Thanks to the support of thousands of volunteer translators, there are nearly 70,000 published translations of TED Talks in 107 languages. TEDx, the licensing program that allows communities to produce independently organized TED events, has already seen nearly 12,000 such events held in 166 countries. For more information about TED Talks Live, visit go.ted.com/tedtalkslive. Follow TED on Twitter at twitter.com/TEDTalks, on Facebook at facebook.com/TED or Instagram at instagram.com/ted. ABOUT CPB The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), a private, nonprofit corporation created by Congress in 1967, is the steward of the federal government's investment in public broadcasting. It helps support the operations of more than 1,400 locally-‐owned and -‐operated public television and radio stations nationwide, and is the largest single source of funding for research, technology, and program development for public radio, television and related online services. For more information, visit cpb.org. ABOUT PBS PBS, with its over 350 member stations, offers all Americans the opportunity to explore new ideas and new worlds through television and online content. Each month, PBS reaches nearly 109 million people through television and over 28 million people online, inviting them to experience the worlds of science, history, nature and public affairs; to hear diverse viewpoints; and to take front row seats to world-‐class drama and performances. PBS’ broad array of programs has been consistently honored by the industry’s most coveted award competitions. Teachers of children from pre-‐K through 12th grade turn to PBS for digital content and services that help bring classroom lessons to life. PBS’ premier children’s TV programming and its website, pbskids.org, are parents’ and teachers’ most trusted partners in inspiring and nurturing curiosity and love of learning in children. More information about PBS is available at pbs.org, one of the leading dot-‐org websites on the Internet, or by following PBS on Twitter, Facebook or through our apps for mobile devices. Specific program information and updates for press are available at pbs.org/pressroom or by following PBS PressRoom on Twitter. ABOUT ITVS Independent Television Service (ITVS) funds, presents, and promotes award-‐winning documentaries on public television, innovative new media projects on the Web, and the Emmy Award-‐winning weekly series “Independent Lens” on Monday nights at 10pm on PBS. Mandated by Congress in 1988 and funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, ITVS has brought thousands of independently produced programs to American audiences. For more information, visit itvs.org. ABOUT THE TOWN HALL Town Hall is a 1,500-‐seat national historic landmark venue in the heart of New York City, created by suffragists in 1921 and host to countless musical and cultural milestones… Strauss, Stravinsky, and Isaac Stern made their US debuts at Town Hall. Marian Anderson gave her first New York recital there. Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker debuted bebop to the world at Town Hall. Margaret Sanger was arrested for daring to speak to an audience of men and women about birth control. Bob Dylan performed his first major concert at Town Hall. America’s Town Meeting of the Air was one of the most celebrated and influential public discussion shows of the twentieth century, and featured guests as diverse as Eleanor Roosevelt, Langston Hughes, Richard Nixon, and Jackie Robinson. In recent history, Jack White, Patti Smith, Larry David, Joan Baez, Stephen Colbert, Tig Notaro, Gilberto Gil, Garrison Keillor, Ray LaMontagne, Ira Glass, and Neil deGrasse Tyson all performed at Town Hall. thetownhall.org