Frank Warren PostSecret Live Wed, Jan 23 ABOUT THE PROGRAM

Royce Hall PostSecret Live is a multimedia presentation by Frank Warren, founder of the wildly popular 8pm blog The PostSecret Project, a collection of highly personal and artfully decorated postcards mailed anonymously from around the world, displaying soulful secrets humans might otherwise never voice. RUNNING TIME: The award-winning PostSecret events give Warren a chance to share videos, secrets that were Approximately 90 minutes banned from his books, the extraordinary stories behind some of the most shocking secrets No intermission he received and some surprises. And before the book signing at the end audience members are always invited to stand and share their deepest secrets with an audience of strangers. PRE- AND POST-SHOW EVENTS: SCA Terrace Series: Warren has hosted live PostSecret events at dozens of conferences, universities and museums The Ghost Writer Confessions around the world. He was a keynote speaker at the South by Southwest Interactive Conference, Live poetry writing and and at PopTech, has his own TED talk, and more. spoken word based on real secrets. ABOUT THE ARTIST

Autograph signing Frank Warren, as sole founder and curator of the PostSecret Project, has been called “the most mmediately following the trusted stranger in America.” performance He started PostSecret as a community art project where he invited total strangers to anonymously mail in their deepest secrets on a homemade postcard. The response was overwhelming, with Warren receiving more than 1 million anonymous postcards and counting.

All six PostSecret books have been on the New York Times Bestseller List. PostSecret: Confessions on Life, Death and God reached No. 1. Post Secret has won three Webby Awards for Best Blog on the Internet and is today the most-visited advertisement-free blog with nearly MEDIA SPONSOR: 700 million total visits.

The project has raised more than $1 million for suicide prevention and Frank Warren was awarded the Mental Health Advocacy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011 and in 2013 was invited to the White House to share his thoughts on mental wellness. His TED talk is one of the most watched with more than 2.5 million views. The postcards have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Visionary Art Museum in Maryland. There is a PostSecret album and play. Warren was born in Arizona and went to high school in Illinois. He MESSAGE FROM THE CENTER: later graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in social science and moved to the Washington, DC area to start a business. Fifteenyears In the last decade, PostSecret Project founder Frank Warren later, he no longer owns his document delivery firm ,Instant has received more than a million postcards. That is a Information Systems, as his sole focus is on the project that thrust staggering amount of secrets to imagine that one human is him into the public eye, PostSecret. willing to assume compassionate responsibilty for. It is also a staggering example of the capacity for empathy we all possess. Warren has appeared on the Today Show, 20/20, CNN, MSNBC, CBC, NPR, and Fox News. USA Today called Warren, “An award- The secrets have come from around the world, each bearing winning blogger, a first-time author, an artist with a traveling a secret the anonymous senders might otherwise never voice. exhibit, a possible documentary subject, the inspiration for a music Hopes, fears, confessions, regrets, dreams, all captured on video and the all-around media ‘it’ boy of the moment.” 4x6 cards that come pouring into Frank’s mailbox, and his home, every day. In 2005, The All American Rejects approached Warren about using images of actual PostSecret images in their Dirty Little Secret music Tonight, we’ll get to see some of the postcards that didn’t end video. They offered Warren $1,000 but instead he asked them to up on the PostSecret website or in one of Frank’s books. But donate $2,000 to 1(800) SUICIDE where Warren is a volunteer. The we haven’t all gathered here just to pull back the curtain on donation was made and the music video became one of the most the lives of strangers. Frank will share what all those secrets requested on MTV. have taught him about the unseen dramas unfolding all around us, and how they can help us be more compassionate. Warren continues to receive between 100 and 200 postcards every We all feel the need to conceal parts of ourselves. Whatever day. Warren, his wife and daughter currently call Germantown, our individual secrets may be, we each make daily decisions Maryland home. He continues to call himself an “accidental artist” about what to share and what to hide, which doors to open because he has no artist background or training. “I have been asked and which to keep locked. many times why I started this. It still feels to me as though this project found me. All I try to do is make the right decisions every Here at the Center, we believe in opening doors. We believe day to protect the integrity of the project – and learn to trust the in creating a space where we can share an experience, and be journey.” reminded that our own most personal truth can be recognized in the unlikeliest of places. Each time an artist takes the stage, Warren has worked tirelessly as a volunteer and advocate for it’s an invitation to make a connection. PostSecret reminds us HopeLine, a suicide-prevention organization, and believes that by that the act of sharing a secret, on an anonymous postcard sharing our deepest secrets, we are able to heal ourselves and serve or in front of a crowd, is just another kind of invitation to our communities. In 2006, Warren was presented a special award connect, another door being thrown open. from the National Mental Health Association in recognition of how PostSecret has “moved the cause of mental health forward.” Inspired by PostSecret, we’ve been collecting anonymous In 2008, PostSecret helped raise over $500,000 for the National answers to the question, What’s the Boldest Thing You’ve Ever Suicide Prevention Hotline 1(800)SUICIDE. Done? Hundreds of cards were dropped into collection boxes across campus over the last few months. They are on display In April of 2014 PostSecret: The Show premiered, a theatrical tonight in the lobby. Some, no doubt, carry secrets. All of performance with actors using secrets from the website in a them help us to see someone else’s life through their own eyes. visual, auditory and emotional journey through the beauty and We hope you’ll share your boldest moment, public or private, complication of our deepest fears, ambitions, and confessions. With by submitting your own card before you leave tonight. the assistance of projected images and video, three actors guide the audience through a crowd-sourced narrative of the stories behind We’re honored to have Frank Warren here, and to share this never-before-seen secrets. evening of insight and discovery with you. Thanks for being here, and for bringing your curiosity and your compassion. HOW IT STARTED We hope you leave with a new door open. The instructions were simple, but the results were extraordinary. “You are invited to anonymously contribute a secret to a group art project. Your secret can be a regret, fear, betrayal, desire, confession, or childhood humiliation. Reveal anything -- as long as it is true and you have never shared it with anyone before. Be brief. Be legible. Be creative.”

The response was overwhelming. The secrets were both provocative and profound, and the cards themselves were works of art -- carefully and creatively constructed by hand. Addictively compelling, the cards reveal our deepest fears, desires, regrets, and obsessions. Warren calls them “graphic haiku,” beautiful, elegant, and small in structure but powerfully emotional.

It has grown into a global phenomenon, exposing our individual aspirations, fantasies, and frailties -- our common humanity. Every day dozens of postcards with intimate secrets still make their way to Warren, with postmarks from around the world, touching on every aspect of human experience. COMING UP AT CAP UCLA

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HOW IT WORKS:

• Create a 4-by-6-inch postcard. Gabriel Kahane: The Ambassador • (Or use the one given to you here today.) Fri-Sat, Feb 27-28 at 8 pm • Draw, paint, or cut and paste whatever you desire to reveal your secret. Freud Playhouse • Anonymously mail to it to Frank Warren at his home address (13345 Copper Ridge Road, Germantown, MD 20874). • Every Sunday, Frank selects ten postcards to publish on his blog for the world to see. • Check www.postsecret.com to see your own secret or witness those of othes.

“In many ways, the secrets that we’re keeping aren’t the greatest burden.

They’re not the ones constricting and restricting us. It’s all the energy that we put into concealing them, the walls and barriers we develop between not just us and other Leonard Nimoy: In Conversation people, but who we are and what we accept about who we are.” with Kristy Edmunds Fri, Apr 10 at 8 pm Frank Warren Royce Hall The boards of CAP UCLA and Design for Sharing would like to thank all the members who have made a choice to join them in supporting arts education and the art of performance at UCLA.

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