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INSPIRE. DISCOVER. ENGAGE.

to help make Dallas ACT the city you want it to be.

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ESSAY INNOVATIVE Sharing vital information quickly is key. Dallas, always in a state of Pages 4-5

becoming, is attracting creative PHYSICAL talents — and keeping them here Big cities need big ideas to fight urban sprawl. Pages 6-7

By CHRIS VOGNAR Culture Critic POLITICAL [email protected] Tackling issues of race hen I decided to move from San Francisco with candor and insight. Pages 10-11 to Dallas, I planned to stick around for a W summer internship. Then it became a part- EDUCATED time job. A year, I thought. Max. Putting the spotlight That was about 19 years ago. That was definitely not the plan. on teachers. Pages 14-15 “Dallas is a city of transplants.” If I had a nickel for every time I heard that, I’d own a Preston Hollow mansion. The city might not CULTURAL draw the hoards of college graduates that flock to hipster havens Reading gives kids a like Austin or Portland, Ore., but it keeps pulling in people who foothold in the world. Pages 16-17 come here to work, realize they like the place and stay put. Take a look at my fellow Cultural City panelists for the Dallas GET THERE Festival of Ideas. Teresa Coleman Wash, executive artistic direc- Full-day schedule and tor and founder of TeCo Theatrical Productions in Oak Cliff, hails details on free activities. Map, ticket info from Albany, Ga. George Getschow, writer in residence at the and other visitor tips. University of North Texas and director of the university’s May- Pages 26, 28 born Literary Nonfiction Conference, is a Chicago boy. Visual artist and arts advocate Jin-Ya Huang is from Taiwan. She was a FOR MORE ■ thedallasfestival.com See CITY’S Page 18M ■ dallasnews.com/dallasideas ......

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elcome to “For the City: The that will begin turning ideas into action two Dallas Festival of Ideas.” Our days after the festival ends. aim in this inaugural event is to Anticipating great things for Dallas’ future, enlighten and entertain — and then, we invite you to this groundbreaking first W Dallas Festival of Ideas. to shape our city for the future. This will be an annual festival worthy of And when we say it’s “For the City,” we mean the name, with the creative imagination at it. All who attend will have opportunities to get work up and down the Dallas Arts District involved and have their voices heard. On Feb. generating not only ideas but also music, 27 and 28 — first at Dallas City Performance visual art, drama, dance and other artistic Hall on Friday night and the next day at venues forms. There’ll be something for every Dallas from Booker T. Washington High School to the resident. Dallas Museum of Art — the Dallas Arts Dis- We all know about the power of ideas — trict will become imagination’s home in North how the best ones end up changing our lives, Texas. once someone or something bridges the gap Join us and add your own big idea. between idea and action. Sincerely, Our guarantee is that this festival will be different from any other because it will not Dr. Larry Allums only bring to life the ideas — big, bold ones — Executive Director but it also comes with a follow-through plan Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture

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ny self-respecting city must dream any Dallas Institute program, the audience will THE HEART OF THE CITY beyond the here and now. be active participants. Great metropolises plan 40 or 50 “We are bringing in a diverse group of high- years ahead, and even then, they profile global keynotes and matching them not IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND A only with carefully selected Dallas visionaries, wonder if the world might pass them by. This futuristic sense is at the heart of the but also with the public,” notes Dr. Larry Al- latest collaboration between the Dallas In- lums, Dallas Institute executive director. “Our stitute of Humanities and Culture and The goal is to ignite and challenge the people of Dallas Morning News. Dallas to think about what they want their city What we’ve cooked up, in my humble opin- to be.” ion, is a pretty special two-day conference on The festival will unfold at several venues in Feb. 27 and 28 called “For the City: The Dallas the Dallas Arts District. To learn more, go to Festival of Ideas.” thedallasfestival.com. I trust readers will find this special section a Sincerely, fine primer for the upcoming conference. After all, this inaugural ideas festival will Bob Mong bring local and global thinkers together to help Editor Emeritus visualize what this region can become. As with The Dallas Morning News

COMING UP JOIN THE CONVERSATION Friday in Guide: More on the free activities at Follow the festival on Twitter at Saturday’s event and the artistic performances @dallasideas and tweet from the event with #dallasideas. Saturday and Sunday: Coverage of the festival in The Dallas Morning News and at dallasnews.com STAFF Project editors: Leslie Snyder ONLINE and Tom Huang Reporters: Jasmine Aguilera, Full festival David Flick, Elizabeth Hamilton, details at Mark Lamster, James Ragland, thedallas Chris Vognar, Jeffrey Weiss, festival.com. Seema Yasmin Editors: Jerry Bokamper, Arnessa Garrett, Steve Harris, Ann Pinson, Nancy Visser Designer: Lisa Veigel Copy editor: Becky Williams m.DowntownDallas.com Photographer: Louis DeLuca

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The Innovative City team will explore the role of innovation in: addressing social problems; unlocking creativity; reaping the benefits of millennials’ role in innovation; retaining local talent; fostering a “leading edge” mentality while honoring traditions; navigating new forms of media and communications as they emerge; and mining and advancing the capacities of a digital culture.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER RAHAF HARFOUSH

BACKGROUND

NAME: Rahaf Harfoush

TITLE: Digital innovation and foresight strategist

AGE: 30

BIRTHPLACE AND RESIDENCE: Born in Damascus, Syria; lives in Paris

EDUCATION: Graduated from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario with honors in business administration

AWARDS/ACHIEVEMENTS: Co-author of The New York Times best-seller The Decoded Company: Know Your Talent Better Than Your Customers

FAMILY: Lives with her husband and their dog, Pixel

MIT Technology Review/Flickr.com Best-selling author and digital innovation consultant Rahaf Harfoush engages audiences around the world with stories of how companies and cities are embracing digital innovation and where they are going wrong. Digital expert: Sharing vital info quickly is key to innovative cities

By SEEMA YASMIN second book, The Decoded Company: Know Your Talent transit lines should be built. The collaboration fueled Staff Writer [email protected] Better Than Your Customers. creativity and innovation, Harfoush said. Her first book, Yes We Did! An Inside Look at How She lists another Canadian example of innovation. In ahaf Harfoush was in Paris when terrorists Social Media Built the Obama Brand, shares insights Calgary, Mayor Naheed Nenshi made data about the attacked Charlie Hebdo, the satirical from three months of volunteering with the Obama city’s budget available to the public and asked his con- French news magazine with offices just 10 campaign’s digital media team. stituents to help make key financial decisions. minutes from her home. As well as offering expert advice on digital foresight Data sharing lies at the heart of innovation in cities, Like many in Paris, Harfoush was glued to companies around the world, Harfoush is working on she said. But it isn’t without its challenges. Information Rto her TV, computer and phone screens as authorities her third book, which explores strategies for learning overload and archaic legal systems unable to keep up issued alerts asking residents to avoid public places. and working in a hyperconnected world. with the pace of new technology are serious hurdles for That capacity to quickly share vital information Harfoush embodies connectedness, frequently criss- cities trying to be innovative. across platforms is a defining feature of innovative crossing the globe to speak at events from a TEDx talk in Harfoush will have a chance to see how Dallas is cities, Harfoush said. The 30-year-old best-selling New York to a global entrepreneur summit in Marra- tackling those hurdles and embracing innovation when author and digital innovation consultant will share her kech. She engages audiences with stories of how compa- she visits the city for the first time in February. She said vision of what drives innovation at the Dallas Festival of nies and cities are embracing digital innovation and the Dallas Festival of Ideas is a good sign that the city is Ideas. where they are going wrong. heading in the right direction. Harfoush was born in Damascus, Syria, and raised She lists Toronto, Tel Aviv, Paris and Buenos Aires D r. S e e m a Ya s m i n , a f o r m e r e p i d e m i o l o g i s t a t t h e in Toronto. She moved to Paris two years ago after among the many cities that are leading urban innova- C e n t e r s f o r D i s e a s e C o n t r o l a n d P r e ve n t i o n , i s a p h ys i c i a n completing a three-year stint at the World Economic tion. City leaders there are helping to push innovation a n d p r o fe s s o r a t t h e U n i ve r s i t y o f Te x a s a t D a l l a s . S h e w i l l Forum in Geneva. There, she studied startup compa- by challenging residents to solve problems. b e t h e m o d e r a t o r o n t h e I n n ova t i ve C i t y p a n e l . nies that were using technology to improve the world. In Toronto, leaders engaged the community through She wrote about those startups and their ideas in her meetings about public transport to decide where new Fo l l ow S e e m a Ya s m i n o n Tw i t t e r a t @ D o c t o r Ya s m i n .

MODERATOR DUAL KEYNOTE PANELISTS

DR. SEEMA YASMIN GABRIELLA DRANEY ZIELKE CHAD HOUSER TREY BOWLES Originally from England, Dr. Gabriella Draney Zielke is the Chad Houser is the executive Trey Bowles is a serial entrepre- Seema Yasmin now lives in Dallas, co-founder and CEO of Dallas- director of Café Momentum, a neur and educator in Dallas. He is where she is a staff writer at The based Tech Wildcatters, a seed restaurant and culinary training the co-founder and chief executive Dallas Morning News, a professor fund and technology accelerator. facility in Dallas that works with of the Dallas Entrepreneur Cen- of public health at the University of Previously, she worked at HP at-risk kids ages 13-17. The long- ter, which provides a place for Texas at Dallas and a medical Growth Partners, a venture cap- time chef previously was co- learning how to start and grow analyst for KXAS-TV (NBC5) and ital firm in Dallas, and in private executive chef and co-owner at businesses through a mentorship CNN. Previously, she worked as a wealth management at Morgan Parigi. He also served as presi- program and capital investment. disease detective at the Centers for Stanley. She co-founded an air- dent of the board of directors of Bowles also works with Startup Disease Control and Prevention, craft scheduling software compa- Dallas Farmers Market Friends America Partnership and co- where she investigated epidemics ny and opened a specialty foods and currently serves as vice chair founded the Mayor’s Star Council at maximum-security prisons, retail store as well. Zielke re- for El Centro Exes Association. for emerging leaders. He helped health care facilities and on Amer- ceived an MBA from Southern He received the 2011 Edible Dal- launch the arts entrepreneurship ican Indian reservations. Yasmin Methodist University as a Cox las & Fort Worth magazine’s department at at Southern Meth- received her doctor of medicine Distinguished Merit Scholar and “Local Hero — Chef ” award and odist University, where he is an from the University of Cambridge a BBA in finance from the Uni- was listed as one of the Top 50 adjunct professor. in England and studied journalism versity of North Texas. She lives Under 40 by Social Enterprise at the University of Toronto. in Dallas. Alliance. Compiled by Elizabeth Hamilton

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FRIDAY FEB. 27 Opening event: The Future Starts Here 7-9 p.m. Dallas City Performance Hall, 2520 Flora St. The five cities are unveiled, with 15-minute presentations of big ideas by keynote speakers Luis Alberto Urrea, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Rahaf Harfoush, Elizabeth Green and Vishaan Chakrabarti, as well as interpretive artistic performances. SATURDAY FEB. 28 Festival HQ opens 8a.m. Lobby of the Winspear Opera House, 2403 Flora St. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Panel discussions for ticket holders. Free programming for all ages on the Evans Caglage/Staff Photographer Ideas Stage and interactive booths at Edna Navarro gets to work at the Dallas Entrepreneur Center, which provides a place for entrepreneurs to receive training, education the Winspear. Passes to the 1 p.m. and access to capital to grow their businesses. The center’s co-founder and CEO, Trey Bowles, is a panelist on the Innovative City team. panel and 4:45 p.m. closing remarks for non-ticketed visitors are available at thedallasfestival.com or the Winspear on Saturday if space remains.

San Francisco 19.9 The Innovative City program $15,741 The D-FW metro area High-tech has the fourth largest occupations 10-11 a.m. population in the U.S. … Ranked by total growth Meyerson Symphony Center, High-tech jobs 2301 Flora St. Population by metro statistical area, 13.1 2010 2014 2013 (in millions) Dual keynote speaker Gabriella 1. San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward Draney Zielke, co-founder and CEO of 9.5 37,596 jobs added Tech Wildcatters, will discuss with national keynote speaker Rahaf 6.8 Harfoush how her big idea from the 6.3 6.0 5.9 2. Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land 5.8 5.5 night before can be applied to 4.7 36,180 jobs added Innovative Dallas. Moderated by Dr. 3. San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara Seema Yasmin, Dallas Morning News Boston 30,018 jobs added health writer, professor in practice at $4,443 the University of Texas at Dallas and 4. Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue medical correspondent for KXAS-TV (NBC5) and CNN. D-FW Miami New York 26,046 jobs added Chicago Houston Atlanta Boston New York $4,218 San Jose Los Angeles PhiladelphiaWashington Audience Q&A 5. New York-Newark-Jersey City $6,883 … But ranks 20th in venture Lunch program 25,475 jobs added capital investment. 6. Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington Noon-2 p.m. Total venture capital invested by metro Philadelphia 24,345 jobs added Free programming in the lobby of statistical area, 2014 Seattle (millions of dollars) Chicago $424 festival headquarters, Winspear $1,205 $1,065 7. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim Opera House, with artists, interactive Washington 19,828 Minneapolis booths and action stations. $857 jobs $369 Concessions at the Winspear; Los Angeles Atlanta 8. Boston-Cambridge-Newton Provo-Orem Denver restaurants open in $2,054 $496 19,143 jobs added $469 $480 One Arts Plaza. Oakland Orange County D-FW 1-1:45 p.m. $1,186 $547 $357 Fort Lauderdale 9. Austin-Round Rock $642 16,699 jobs added Panel discussion on how Dallas can San Diego Austin Houston attract and retain creative talent, with $621 $805 $397 10. Denver-Aurora-Lakewood Zannie Voss, professor of arts 15,233 jobs added management and entrepreneurship at Pricewaterhouse Coopers; U.S. Census Bureau Michael Hogue/Staff Artist Southern Methodist University, and performers Jamal Mohamed, Michelle Gibson, David Lozano and Will Richey. At Booker T. Washington High School. Introduced by Dallas Mayor Mike PERFORMANCE JEROD ALEXANDER DAVIES Rawlings. The Innovative City regroups 3-4 p.m. Jerod Alexander Davies is a Dual keynotes Harfoush and Zielke will multifaceted visual artist from regroup with panelists Chad Houser, Dallas. He has produced commis- chef and founder of Café Momentum, sioned murals and other works for and Trey Bowles, co-founder and CEO Jean Paul Gaultier, Dreamworks, of the Dallas Entrepreneur Center, to American Airlines and Deep El- drill down into ideas for Innovative lum Brewery, among others. He Dallas. At Meyerson Symphony produced the Dallas Mavericks Center. Moderated by Yasmin. championship mural with his Audience Q&A brothers Jashua and Isaac, working as “Three of One Arts.” He is Conclusion the emcee and founder of Dallas- 4:45-5:15 p.m. based hip-hop graffiti group Blunt Force Crew and a founding mem- Closing remarks by T. D. Jakes. ber of the Just-Us-League, a Dallas At Dallas City Performance Hall. freestyle art squad that creates works to auction for charity. Closing party On stage: During Friday 5:30-8 p.m. night’s opening event, Davies will Barbecue, beer and music. create a painting in under five At Winspear Opera House. minutes beneath a video projec- (Complete schedule on Page 26.) tion that takes the audience through the city of Dallas. Compiled by Elizabeth Hamilton VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

The Dallas Entrepreneur Center

311 N. Market St., Suite 200, Dallas, Texas 75202

Website: thedec.co

■ DEC Ambassador Program: Volunteers assist with promoting and educating the public about programs and offerings for Visual artist Jerod Alexander startups. Davies, whose graffiti creation near Carroll and Columbia ■ DEC Mentorship Program: avenues in Old East Dallas Experienced entrepreneurs and looms over him, will speed- leaders serve as mentors to share paint for the audience during expertise and contacts to assist Friday night’s opening event. startups in growing their Louis DeLuca/Staff Photographer businesses.

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The Physical City team will imagine the future of our city’s capacity for bridging differences, healing divisions and making connections by integrating nature and the built environment; creating “people climates” throughout the city; involving both youth and experience in planning; and listening to our diversity of voices as we build, from professional expertise to lived experience at the street level.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER VISHAAN CHAKRABARTI

BACKGROUND

NAME: Vishaan Chakrabarti

TITLES: Partner, SHoP Architects; Holliday Professor and director of the Center of Urban Real Estate at Columbia University

AGE: 49

BIRTHPLACE AND RESIDENCE: Born in Calcutta, India; lives in New York

EDUCATION: B.A., Cornell University; M.A. degrees, MIT and Berkeley

AUTHOR: A Country of Cities (Metropolis, 2013)

AWARDS: David Rockefeller Fellow, Partnership for New York City; board member, Architectural League of New York and the Municipal Art Society of New York

FAMILY: Married; two children

Henry Hung Vishaan Chakrabarti, a Columbia University professor and partner in a New York architecture firm, led a team last year that was a winner of Dallas’ Connected Cities Design Challenge, which proposed a high-density corridor along the banks of the Trinity River. Make no small plans, argues architect and advocate of dense urban spaces

By MARK LAMSTER a team that was a winner of the Connected Cities Design “A lot of people living and playing in the core of Dallas Architecture Critic [email protected] Challenge, which proposed a high-density corridor is going to make the city more and more attractive along the banks of the Trinity River. over time.” ow is Dallas to remake itself for the com- In an era of specialization, Chakrabarti is unusual in Chakrabarti, who was born in Calcutta, India, and ing century? That question is at the heart that he combines practical experience in the public and raised in Boston, was shaped by the urban experience. of the Dallas Festival of Ideas, and there private sectors with academic bona fides. “To do large- “I went back to Calcutta a lot as a kid, and I always are few speakers better suited to address it scale architecture, it really does constantly demand that loved it because it’s a big cultural city and it’s a pedes- than Vishaan Chakrabarti, who will be the you call upon these different threads and ideas,” he said. trian city,” he said. “My mom was always amazed keynoteH speaker on the symposium’s Physical City panel. His 2013 book, A Country of Cities, stands as an aph- because at a fairly young age I could navigate the Chakrabarti was a director for the New York Depart- oristic manifesto and provocative call to arms, arguing streets.” ment of City Planning during the remaking of the High for dense urban spaces and against sprawl. “The suburbs Chakrabarti studied art history and engineering at Line, a park located above an abandoned freight line on are largely a creation of ‘big government,’ an explicit, Cornell University and has advanced degrees in archi- the West Side of Manhattan, and the remapping of policy-driven subsidized scheme that has guided how we tecture and urban planning from the University of Ground Zero in the aftermath of 9/11. He is now a profes- live, work and play,” he writes. “If you love nature, don’t California, Berkeley, and MIT. sor in the real estate program at Columbia University and live in it.” M a r k L a m s t e r i s a p r o fe s s o r a t t h e U T-A r l i n g t o n a partner in the New York architecture firm SHoP, where Those ideas have a special relevance for Dallas and in S c h o o l o f A r c h i t e c t u r e . H e w i l l b e a s p e a ke r o n t h e he has overseen a series of major urban development particular the development of the derelict spaces along P h ys i c a l C i t y p a n e l . projects. the Trinity River. “People get excited about the activity of That work has brought him to Dallas: Last year, he led other people, and that leads to a virtuous cycle,” he said. Fo l l ow M a r k L a m s t e r o n Tw i t t e r a t @ m a r k l a m s t e r.

MODERATOR DUAL KEYNOTE PANELISTS

JEFF WHITTINGTON MARK LAMSTER MARIA LOVELAND SCHNEIDER ARTURO DEL CASTILLO Jeff Whittington is executive pro- Mark Lamster is an award-winning Maria Loveland Schneider is a real Arturo Del Castillo is the senior urban de- ducer for the Think series and spe- architecture critic for The Dallas Morn- estate developer, construction sci- signer for the city of Dallas’ CityDesign Stu- cial projects at KERA, as well as the ing News and a professor in the architec- ence consultant, builder and remod- dio, where he and his team work to advance host of Anything You Ever Wanted ture school at the University of Texas at eler in Texas. She has a particular design excellence in city projects. He is a to Know. Whittington’s journalism Arlington. His work has appeared in interest in the effect of physical licensed architect and urban designer with has received numerous awards, national publications, including The structures on the culture and well- experience in the private and public sectors including five consecutive Dallas New York Times, Los Angeles Times and being of communities, sustainability across North America, southern Asia and Bar Association Philbin Awards for The Wall Street Journal. He is also the and underserved urban areas. She Western Europe. He received a bachelor’s Excellence in Legal Reporting, a author of several books, including Mas- advocates for rebuilding South Dal- degree in architecture from California Poly- Texas AP Broadcaster Award and a ter of Shadows, a political biography of las and has founded a nonprofit to technic State University, San Luis Obispo, regional Edward R. Murrow Award. the artist Peter Paul Rubens, and Spal- serve fractured communities. and a master’s of architecture in urban de- Whittington graduated from the ding’s World Tour, which was an Edi- Schneider studied physics and elec- sign from Harvard Graduate School of De- University of North Texas. Besides tors’ Choice selection by The New York trical engineering at New Mexico sign. He’s previously worked as a senior his work in journalism, he is also a Times’ book review. Lamster is currently State University and received a mas- designer and project manager in San Fran- rock musician and songwriter and working on a biography of the late archi- ter’s degree in biomedical engineer- cisco and Dallas, leading architecture and sings in the Dallas-based Neil tect Philip Johnson, to be published by ing from the University of Texas at urban design projects around the world. Young revue Psycho Pony. Little, Brown. Austin. Compiled by Elizabeth Hamilton

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Festival HQ opens 8a.m. Lobby of the Winspear Opera House, 2403 Flora St. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Panel discussions for ticket holders. Free programming for all ages on the Ideas Stage and interactive booths at the Winspear. Passes to the 1 p.m. panel and 4:45 p.m. closing remarks for non-ticketed visitors are available at Michael Ainsworth/Staff Photographer thedallasfestival.com or the Winspear on Saturday if space remains. One of the newer additions to the Physical City, the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge was designed by Santiago Calatrava as part of the Trinity River Corridor Project. It connects Woodall Rodgers Freeway downtown with Singleton Boulevard in West Dallas. The Physical City program 11 a.m.-noon Dallas City Performance Hall Dual keynote speaker Mark Lamster, Dallas Morning News architecture critic and University of Texas at Arlington professor, will discuss with national keynote speaker Vishaan Chakrabarti how his big idea from the night before can be applied to Physical Dallas. Moderated by Jeff Whittington, executive producer at KERA. Audience Q&A

Lunch program Noon-2 p.m. Free programming in the lobby of festival headquarters, Winspear Opera House. Concessions at the Winspear; restaurants open in One Arts Plaza. 1-1:45 p.m. Panel discussion on how Dallas can attract and retain creative talent, with Zannie Voss, professor of arts management and entrepreneurship at Southern Methodist University, and performers Jamal Mohamed, Michelle Gibson, David Lozano and Will Richey. At Booker T. Washington High School. Introduced by Dallas Mayor Mike SHoP Architects Rawlings. A winning entry in the Connected Cities Design Competition, presented by SHoP Architects and the landscape firm Stoss, reunites 2-3 p.m. downtown Dallas and the Trinity River through an alternating pattern of “grid-green” development. The proposal, in color in the foreground, incorporates housing and commercial buildings with forests, which weave between highways with a new walk that would Dual keynotes Chakrabarti and Lamster connect Dealey Plaza to the waterfront, with cafes along the way. will regroup with panelists Maria Loveland Schneider, a consultant with Sustainable Development Resources, and Arturo del Castillo, senior urban designer for the city of Dallas’ PERFORMANCE DALLAS THEATER CENTER CityDesign Studio, to drill down into ideas for Physical Dallas. At Dallas City Performance Hall. Dallas Theater Center is one of Audience Q&A the leading regional theaters in the country and performs to an audi- Conclusion ence of more than 120,000 North 4:45-5:15 p.m. Texas residents annually. Founded in 1959, DTC is a resident company Closing remarks by T. D. Jakes. of the AT&T Performing Arts At Dallas City Performance Hall. Center and performs at the Wyly Theatre. DTC also presents at its Closing party original home, the Kalita Hum- 5:30-8 p.m. phreys Theater. Barbecue, beer and music. DTC’s programming includes At Winspear Opera House. education programs such as Pro- ject Discovery, SummerStage and (Complete schedule on Page 26.) partnerships with Southern Meth- odist University’s Meadows School of the Arts and Booker T. Washing- VOLUNTEER ton High School for the Perform- OPPORTUNITIES ing and Visual Arts. It has produced world premieres of Stagger Lee by Meadows Prize winner Will Dallas Center for Architecture Power; Fly by Rajiv Joseph, Bill Sherman and Kirstin Childs; Fly 1909 Woodall Rodgers Freeway, by Night by Kim Rosenstock, Suite 100, Dallas, Texas 75201 Michael Mitnick and Will Connol- 214-880-1550 ly and Giant by Michael John Email: [email protected] LaChiusa and Sybille Pearson. Website: DallasCFA.com On stage: Dallas Theater ■ Various family programs and Center will perform a five-minute exhibitions excerpt from a play written by award-winning American play- ■ Docents for walking tours wright Will Power during Friday night’s opening event. The Trinity Trust Foundation Compiled by Elizabeth Hamilton 1444 Oak Lawn Ave., Suite 200, Dallas, Texas 75207 214-740-1616 Lee Trull is the director of new play development at the Dallas Email: [email protected] Theater Center, which will Website: thetrinitytrust.org perform an excerpt from a play ■ Community outreach and private written by award-winning fundraising to assist Dallas’ Trinity River American playwright Will Power Project. Current campaigns include during Friday night’s opening funding for a series of downtown lakes event. and a 17.5-mile hike and bike trail from Louis DeLuca/Staff Photographer White Rock Lake to Interstate 20.

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Chiapas International and the Sapphire Foundation would like to congratulate the Dallas Festival of Ideas for successfully engaging and challenging our community to action. We are pleased to announce the 6th Annual

Join us WOMEN WHOMay 8th,At 2015 GIVE HOPE LuncheonThe Belo Mansion We are excited to once again honor three outstanding women who have made a significant impact globally serving those in need. Our luncheon is a time for celebrating the work of women in the Metroplex who are changing Please email Tricia Bridges at [email protected] for more information lives around the world.

Chiapas International is more than Microfinance.

In the past 12 years we have been committed to supporting the most successful solutions to ending poverty by giving women and men a hand-up and the opportunity to become entrepreneurs. We have also provided funding for innovative work training, farming programs and clean water for several communities in Latin America. ChiapasWith over International $6 Million raised, is Chiapasnow joining has helped forces over with 250,000 local people groups to take to addressthe first steppoverty out inof ourextreme community. poverty with a goal of reaching a sustainable business.

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The Dallas Foundation is proud to co-sponsor the The Dallas Festival of Ideas as the Educated City Pillar. We are committed to the idea that every child is capable of learning and deserves the opportunity to succeed.

The Dallas Foundation – For 86 years, Thehe DaDallasllas FoFoundationundation hhasasbeeni been improvingmpro life in North Texas. Established as a community foundation in 1929, it servess asas a resource,resource leaderleader andand catalystcatalyst forfo philanthropy by providing donors with ﬂexible means of making gifts to charitable causes that enhance our community. For information, visit dallasfoundation.org

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The Political City team will focus on: engaging youth in the political process; educating and empowering immigrant and minority groups in a democracy; mitigating the polarities of race and class; looking for ways to diminish the income gap between rich and poor; and building a strong middle class.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER TA-NEHISI COATES

BACKGROUND

NAME: Ta-Nehisi Coates

TITLE: National correspondent, The Atlantic

AGE: 39

BIRTHPLACE AND RESIDENCE: Born in Baltimore; lives in New York

EDUCATION: Howard University

AWARDS, ACHIEVEMENTS: Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis Journalism, 2012; National Magazine Award, 2013

FAMILY: Wife, Kenyatta; son, Samori

Andre Chung The writings of Ta-Nehisi Coates, especially those involving race, have earned the national correspondent for The Atlantic a following. Writer’s daring and distinctive voice dissects American culture, social issues

By JAMES RAGLAND he’s also a big-time blogger for the magazine’s website. He went to great lengths to show readers how “my think- Staff Writer [email protected] His probing style and profound insights into matters of ing evolved” on the issue. race tend to light up social media, stir up classrooms and That unflinching candor is evident in Coates’ other work, hen one of the coolest writers on the planet ignite the sort of water cooler chatter typically reserved for too, particularly on issues of race, whether he’s tackling how calls you “the young James Joyce of the sports and politics. the nation’s first black president dutifully — and delicately hip-hop generation,” you’re high-stepping “Coates is one of the voices that I trust on matters of nation- — plays his hand in an America that clearly isn’t a post- to the beat of a mighty drummer. al significance,” said Michael J. Sorrell, president of Paul racial society, or whether he’s addressing generational and But in many ways, Ta-Nehisi Coates, 39, Quinn College, the private, historically black school south of ideological rifts in the black community that were evi- Wa national correspondent and senior editor for The Atlantic, downtown Dallas. “His ability to use the written word to effect denced, once again, when Bill Cosby picked up a well-worn is still finding his stride — even though he’s emerged as one change is powerful.” script and began preaching personal responsibility. of the most daring and distinctive voices in American jour- Sorrell’s students are still reading and discussing “The Case As a writer who admittedly trains his eyes on national nalism. for Reparations,” the much-talked-about article on slavery issues, Coates is well aware that many of the problems he He’s written for The Village Voice and contributed to and race that was published last summer. The article’s worth focuses on tend to, as he put it, “manifest themselves most Time, O and The New York Times Magazine. noting for two reasons: It showed the breadth and depth of acutely in cities.” His 2008 memoir, The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Coates’ masterful storytelling skills, and it demonstrated his One of the huge problems, he said, is the long-standing Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood, earned him high relentless search for a deeper understanding, which, in this wealth gap between white and black America — a disparity praise, including the comparison to Joyce by novelist and instance, caused him to do an about-face on a complex, con- that’s at the root of so many pressing social problems, from celebrated crime-fiction writer Walter Mosley. troversial issue. housing to crime to public education. And James McBride, author of the 1995 memoir The “For me,” Coates wrote last May in a blog post explaining Still, he said, “cities are cool today in a way they didn’t Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother, his June cover story in The Atlantic, “this current article — an used to be. It feels like young people want to be in cities.” recognized Coates’ edgy writing for its “stunning poetic argument in support of reparations — began four years ago J a m e s R a g l a n d , a f e a t u r e d c o l u m n i s t f o r M e t r o , w i l l m o d - awareness and gorgeous immediacy.” when I opposed reparations. A lot has happened since then. e r a t e t h e P o l i t i c a l C i t y p a n e l . The Baltimore native’s takes on American culture, poli- I’ve read a lot, talked to a lot of people and spent a lot of time in tics and social issues are must-reads in The Atlantic, where Chicago, where the history, somehow, feels especially present.” Fo l l ow h i m o n Tw i t t e r a t @ j a m e s r a g l a n d 61.

MODERATOR DUAL KEYNOTE PANELISTS

JAMES RAGLAND FLORENCIA MICHAEL J. SORRELL LEE CULLUM VELASCO FORTNER James Ragland is an award-winning Michael J. Sorrell is the president of Paul Lee Cullum is an award-winning journalist reporter, editor and columnist for The Florencia Velasco Fortner is the president Quinn College in Dallas. He received his who has appeared in The Dallas Morning Dallas Morning News. He covers and CEO of The Concilio, a Dallas non- B.A. in government from Oberlin College News and on NPR’s affiliate KERA in North poverty, race, social justice and poli- profit that provides services aimed at and his J.D. and M.A. in public policy from Texas, among others. She is the host of CEO, tics. Ragland studied political science building stronger communities by em- Duke University. He is currently a doctoral a series of interviews with business leaders and journalism at Texas A&M Uni- powering parents to improve their fami- student at the University of Pennsylvania. produced by KERA. Cullum was the editorial versity-Commerce. He worked at The lies’ education and health. Since Velasco Sorrell was one of the founding members page editor at the Dallas Times Herald and Washington Post, where his coverage joined The Concilio in 2005, the organiza- of the Duke Journal of Gender Law & edited D Magazine when it was a finalist for a of city affairs won him a number of tion has quadrupled its assets and in- Policy and served as vice president of the National Magazine Award. Cullum anchored awards. Ragland is a member of the creased the number of families it serves Duke Bar Association. He received a Sloan election specials that won the Columbia Texas Intercollegiate Press Associa- from 2,000 to more than 11,000. She is a Foundation Graduate Fellowship, which DuPont Broadcast Journalism Award for tion Hall of Fame and a distinguished graduate of Leadership Dallas, a Marshall funded his studies at both Harvard Uni- KERA-TV. She was a regular commentator alumnus of Texas A&M University- Memorial Fellow, a member of the Dallas versity’s Kennedy School of Government for the PBS NewsHour and National Public Commerce. His work has appeared in Summit, Dallas Assembly and the His- and Duke University. Sorrell’s editorials Radio’s All Things Considered. Cullum at- magazines and newspapers across the panic 100. She serves on the advisory have appeared in The Dallas Morning tended Sweet Briar College and graduated country, and he has contributed to board of the Dallas Women’s Foundation News and The Huffington Post, and his from Southern Methodist University. several anthologies on topics ranging and on the board of the John G. Tower TEDx talk on the new urban college model Compiled by Elizabeth Hamilton from Bill Cosby to Cuba. Center for Political Studies at SMU. is critically acclaimed.

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FRIDAY FEB. 27 Opening event: The Future Starts Here 7-9 p.m. Dallas City Performance Hall The five cities are unveiled, with 15-minute presentations of big ideas by keynote speakers Luis Alberto Urrea, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Rahaf Harfoush, Elizabeth Green and Vishaan Chakrabarti, as well as interpretive artistic performances. SATURDAY FEB. 28

The Political City program

85 9:30-10:30 a.m. If DISD were Dallas Museum of Art, 1717 N. Harwood St. 43 Language other than 100 students, Dual keynote speaker Florencia English spoken at home Velasco Fortner, president and CEO 44 Homeowners they would be ... 70 of The Concilio in Dallas, will discuss with national keynote speaker 1990-91 29 White Ta-Nehisi Coates how his big idea 2014-15 from the night before can be applied 24 Foreign born to Political Dallas. Moderated by 42 Hispanic 2013 James Ragland, columnist for The Dallas Morning News. 53 3 Asian Audience Q&A 24 Below poverty level 46 Lunch program 25 Black If Dallas had Noon-2 p.m. Free programming in the lobby of 26 Black 100 residents 18 Below 35 festival headquarters, Winspear poverty level Opera House, with artists, interactive 3 Asian booths and action stations. Concessions at the Winspear; restaurants open in One Arts Plaza. 36 Hispanic 2000 24 Foreign born 23 1-1:45 p.m. Panel discussion on how Dallas can 35 White 17 attract and retain creative talent, with Zannie Voss, professor of arts 43 Homeowners management and entrepreneurship 37 Language other than at Southern Methodist University, English spoken at home 5 and performers Jamal Mohamed, Michelle Gibson, David Lozano and Will Richey. At Booker T. Washington High School. Introduced by Dallas Economically Black White Hispanic Mayor Mike Rawlings. SOURCES: U.S. Census Bureau; DISD Michael Hogue/Staff Artist disadvantaged 2:30-3:30 p.m. Dual keynotes Coates and Velasco will regroup with panelists Lee Cullum, host of CEO on KERA-TV, and PERFORMANCE MAYA JONES and MICHELLE GIBSON Michael J. Sorrell, Paul Quinn College president, to drill down into ideas for Political Dallas. Moderated by Ragland. At the Dallas Museum Maya Jones is a vocal perfor- Maya Jones, of Art. mance and music education student avocal at Southern Methodist University performance Audience Q&A and alumna of the Fort Worth and music Academy of Fine Arts. She has education Conclusion performed scenes from The Cruci- student at 4:45-5:15 p.m. ble, Carmen and West Side Story. Southern Methodist Closing remarks by T. D. Jakes. Jones is also active in human At Dallas City Performance Hall. rights and leadership initiatives at University, will perform SMU and has served as president Closing party for SMU's Fine Arts Community. Saturday on She was recently chosen as a peer the Ideas 5:30-8 p.m. dialogue leader for her residence Stage at the Barbecue, beer and music. hall. Winspear At Winspear Opera House. Originally from New Orleans, Opera House. Michelle Gibson is an artist in resi- (Complete schedule on Page 26.) dence with South Dallas Cultural Center, artistic director of Dallas Youth Repertory Project and an VOLUNTEER adjunct professor at Brookhaven OPPORTUNITIES College. She received a BFA in dance from Tulane University and Photos by Louis DeLuca/Staff Photographer an MFA in dance and performance The Concilio studies from Hollins University/ Michelle 400 S. Zang Blvd., Suite 300, American Dance Festival at Duke Gibson is an University. Dallas, Texas 75208 artist in 214-818-0481 She danced at the New Orleans residence Center for Creative Arts and Jacob’s with South Website: theconcilio.org Pillow, and performed with Delta Dallas ■ Student workshops on Festival Ballet Company and Alvin Cultural college and career readiness Ailey American Dance Center. Her Center and skills at two Irving high schools. choreography ranges from the artistic ■ “Healthy Kids, Healthy African diaspora to contemporary director of modern and her own New Orleans Families” nutrition and physical Dallas Youth activity education program. second line aesthetic. Repertory ■ ¡Vive tu Vida! Get Up! Get On stage: Jones will sing a Project. She will dance Moving! community event with five-minute piece of opera while health screenings. Gibson dances Friday night. On while Jones Saturday, Jones will perform on the sings a five- ■ Inspiring Families to Achieve Ideas Stage at 2 p.m. and Gibson is a minute piece Big Dreams, an annual silent panelist at the 1 p.m. talent dis- of opera auction fundraiser that benefits The Concilio’s cussion. during Friday night’s signature education program PASE: Parents Advocating for Compiled by opening. Elizabeth Hamilton Student Excellence.

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KEYNOTE SPEAKER ELIZABETH GREEN

BACKGROUND

NAME: Elizabeth Green

TITLE: Co-founder, CEO and editor-in-chief of Chalkbeat

AGE: 30

BIRTHPLACE AND RESIDENCE: Born in Silver Spring, Md.; lives in New York

EDUCATION: Harvard University, Class of 2006

AWARDS/ACHIEVEMENTS: Spencer Fellow in education journalism at Columbia University, 2009- 10; Abe Journalism Fellow studying education in Japan, 2011. Her book, Building a Better Teacher, was on The New York Times’ list of 100 Notable Books of 2014.

FAMILY: Engaged to journalist David Epstein

Louis DeLuca/Staff Photographer

Elizabeth Green, author of Building a Better Teacher, has been writing about education since she was 17. She believes that teacher autonomy by itself holds no broad answers, but neither does a simple belief that testing and accountability will improve outcomes. Author: Teachers often not trained for complex task of helping kids learn

By JEFFREY WEISS notable books of 2014. And she’s co-founder and teachers. That helped me understand some of the Staff Writer [email protected] CEO of Chalkbeat, a New York-based education mysteries I just hadn’t understood.” news website with a national following. And that led her to another question: “Why are we lizabeth Green decided she wanted to write For several years, her work has focused on the pouring money into a broken system that doesn’t about education at the same time she de- topic that became her recent book. As she covered acknowledge the complexity of the work it’s trying to cided she wanted to be a journalist. the policy debates about public education, she be- support?” “Like many people, it was my high came convinced that a lot of the rhetoric missed the Green rejects the two poles of political rhetoric school newspaper that inspired me,” she point. The problem and its solution, she decided, are about public education: Teacher autonomy by itself Esaid. “What I was writing about when I was writing my centered around the relationship between teachers holds no broad answers, she said, but neither does a first-ever stories was the achievement gap and why do and students, where the rubber meets the road in simple belief that testing and accountability will im- we have it and what can be done and what do students her view. prove outcomes. think about it and what are superintendents doing to Researching the book, however, shook up her “Because accountability does very little to help exacerbate or fix inequity. preconceptions about what that meant. Her conclu- teachers with the complex work of figuring out how to “I was, like, this is the story I want to write and I sion: Teaching is hard to do, a skill that can be help kids learn,” she said. “It’s like insulting, actually, want to engage in. And that pretty much is all I’ve done learned but one that most teachers in America were to tell people who are already struggling to help kids since I was 17 years old.” never taught. And they still do not get the training learn every day: ‘Oh, did you know you were supposed Now 30, Green has already had an impact. Her they need to succeed, she said. It’s as if carpenters to help kids learn? Would you start doing that?’ ” résumé includes the now-defunct New York Sun and were forced to learn their trade by trial and error. Staff writer Jeffrey Weiss writes about education U.S. News and World Report. Some of her work has “I was just really floored by the complexity of it,” issues for The Dallas Morning News. appeared in The New York Times. Her latest book, Green said. “What really changed it for me was Building a Better Teacher, made The Times’ list of 100 having the opportunity to step into the minds of Follow Jeffrey Weiss on Twitter at @Jeffreyweissdmn.

MODERATOR DUAL KEYNOTE PANELISTS

DR. DANIEL RUSS DR. CLAUDIA ALLUMS ALFONSO CORREA ONYEMA NWEZE Dr. Daniel Russ is a professor of English at Dr. Claudia Allums is director of the Lou- Alfonso Correa is a native of Onyema Nweze has been a public Gordon College in Wenham, Mass., where ise and Donald Cowan Center for Educa- Brownsville. He served on a school teacher for over 20 years. he has also served as the academic dean tion at the Dallas Institute of Humanities submarine in the U.S. Navy and In 2011, she earned an M.A. in and director of the Center for Christian and Culture. She began teaching in 1981 went on to study English at the humanities from the University of Studies. Previously, Russ was the head- and has since worked in high school class- University of Texas-Brownsville. Dallas. She is a member of the master of Trinity Christian Academy, a rooms and administrative offices as a He’s taught AP English language Teacher’s Advisory Board of the K-12 college preparatory school in Addi- teacher, department chair and dean of and composition, African-Amer- Louise and Donald Cowan Center son. He was also the executive director of curriculum and instruction. Allums was ican studies, Latin American for Education at the Dallas In- Christians in the Visual Arts at Gordon also a visiting assistant professor of Eng- studies and senior thesis at the stitute of Humanities and Culture. College. He is a fellow of the Dallas In- lish and associate dean of both the Braniff Dallas school district’s School for She is also a certified reading stitute of Humanities and Culture and has Graduate School of Liberal Arts and the the Talented and Gifted. He is a specialist, as well as a 2006 and contributed to a number of books on the Constantin College of Liberal Arts at the member of the National Council 2007 alumnus of the Sue Rose classics, biblical studies and cultural lead- University of Dallas. She holds a Ph.D. in of Teachers of English, the Asso- Summer Institute for Teachers. ership. He earned an M.A. in biblical stud- literature from the University of Dallas. ciation of Texas Professional She is working as a secondary ies from Dallas Theological Seminary, an Allums edited and wrote essays for the Educators and the Teachers English and language arts aca- M.A. in English from the University of Dallas Institute’s 2013 volume, What is a Academy Advisory Board at the demic facilitator for the Dallas Dallas and a Ph.D. in literature and psy- teacher? Remembering the Soul of Educa- Dallas Institute of Humanities school district. chology from the University of Dallas. tion Through Classic Literature. and Culture. Compiled by Elizabeth Hamilton

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The Educated City program 5 of 100 have a bachelor’s degree or higher 79 Have a high school diploma or higher 9-10 a.m. 17 of 100 have some college or an associate degree Booker T. Washington High 22 of 100 have a high school diploma School, 2501 Flora St. 29 Have a bachelor’s degree or higher 32 of 100 have less Dual keynote speaker Dr. Claudia than a high school diploma Allums, director of the Louise and Have a diploma Donald Cowan Center for Education in Dallas, will discuss (25 and over) 14 Less than a 9th-grade education Living in poverty with national keynote speaker 23 In college or graduate school (25 and over) 12 Some high school, but did not Elizabeth Green how her big idea graduate from the night before can be 22 High school graduates applied to Educated Dallas. 19 In high school Moderated by Dr. Dan Russ, Of every 100 professor at Gordon College and 18 Some college, but no degree Trinity Forum senior fellow. 44 In elementary school Residents Dallas residents ... Audience Q&A 9 Associate degree who are still Educational Lunch program in school attainment 18 Bachelor’s degree (25 and over) Noon-2 p.m. 7 In kindergarten 11 Graduate degree or Free programming in the lobby of 7 In nursery school higher festival headquarters, Winspear Opera House, with artists, interactive booths and action 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 DISD statistics 22% stations. Concessions at the 18% Winspear; restaurants open in One Arts Plaza. Teachers with more than 18% 17% 76% 85% 12% 20 years of experience 16% 1-1:45 p.m. 13% Percent taking Graduation rate 9% Panel discussion on how Dallas can SAT or ACT 4-year federal rate attract and retain creative talent, 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2012-13 2012-13 Beginning teachers 5% with Zannie Voss, professor of arts Teacher turnover rate management and SOURCES: 2013 American Community Survey; Dallas Independent School District Michael Hogue/Staff Artist entrepreneurship at Southern Methodist University, and performers Jamal Mohamed, Michelle Gibson, David Lozano and Will Richey. At Booker T. Washington High School. PERFORMANCE DAVID LOZANO AND CARA MÍA THEATRE CO. Introduced by Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings. 3:30-4:30 p.m. David Dual keynotes Green and Allums Lozano is will regroup with panelists Alfonso the executive Correa, a teacher at Dallas’ Talented and Gifted High School, artistic and Onyema Nweze, Dallas school director of district academic facilitator, to drill Cara Mía down into ideas for Educated Theatre Dallas. Moderated by Russ. At Company. He Booker T. Washington High is a panelist at School. Saturday’s 1 Audience Q&A p.m. talent discussion. Conclusion 4:45-5:15 p.m. Closing remarks by T. D. Jakes. At Dallas City Performance Hall.

Closing party 5:30-8 p.m. Barbecue, beer and music. At Winspear Opera House.

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VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

Reading Partners Website: readingpartners.org Louis DeLuca/Staff Photographer (click on the Volunteers tab, then choose the Dallas location) David Lozano is a writer, director and producer of original bilingual plays in Dallas. He is the executive artistic director of Cara Mía Theatre Co. His productions include To Die: Go in Leaves, by Frida Kahlo, written with Cara Mía’s artistic ensemble; Nuestra Pastorela, co-written with Jeffry ■ Reading tutoring: Spend one hour a week with a student who Farrell; and The Dreamers: A Bloodline, written with Cara Mía’s ensemble, among others. Crystal City 1969, which he co-wrote with Raul Treviño, is struggling with reading to was recognized as the Best New Play of 2009 by The Dallas Morning News, TheaterJones.com and the Dallas-Fort Worth Theater Critics Forum. help him or her build literacy Lozano is currently writing Deferred Action about immigration reform with Lee Trull for a co-production between Dallas Theater Center and Cara skills, gain confidence and Mía. discover a passion for reading. On stage: The Cara Mía Theatre Co. will perform an original five-minute piece, written by Rodney Garza and David Lozano and directed by No formal teaching experience is required. Reading centers are Lozano, during Friday night’s opening event. On Saturday, Lozano is a panelist at the 1 p.m. talent discussion. open Monday through Thursday Compiled by Elizabeth Hamilton at schools across Dallas.

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KEYNOTE SPEAKER LUIS ALBERTO URREA

BACKGROUND

NAME: Luis Alberto Urrea

TITLE: Creative writing professor, University of Illinois-Chicago

AGE: 59

BIRTHPLACE AND RESIDENCE: Born in Tijuana, Mexico; lives in Naperville, Ill.

EDUCATION: University of California, San Diego; University of Colorado Boulder

LATEST WORK: The Water Museum (short stories; publishes in April)

AWARDS: American Book Award; Edgar Award for Best Short Story; Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction

FAMILY: Wife, Cindy; son, Eric, 25; daughters Megan, 23, and Rosario, 15

Jimi Allen/Special Contributor In his acclaimed memoir Nobody’s Son, Luis Alberto Urrea writes about growing up on a dirt road in Tijuana, Mexico, and his path out. Poor kid makes good: Writer-professor exemplifies value of reading

By CHRIS VOGNAR serious about the impact. me: ‘Wait. You can make a living doing this?’ It’s more than Culture Critic [email protected] “I’m passionate about allowing people to come out of the bringing home some eggs. It’s about your future and their shadows,” he said by phone from his Illinois home. “I’ve seen future and their children’s future, and ultimately the future of uis Alberto Urrea loves to talk about Kankakee. politicians who don’t have my hippie, I-love-everybody atti- the country.” Urrea, a fiction writer, essayist and professor tude but realize their community needs to just move forward: Urrea, whose father is Mexican and mother is white, is of creative writing at the University of Illinois- ‘I’m not going to get these people out of here. They’re here particularly sharp when writing about the futility of categori- Chicago, came to know nearby Kankakee a few already. How do I make them functioning members of the zation and ethnic labeling. “My cousin is Apache,” he writes in years back when he visited the small town’s new community?’ ” Nobody’s Son. “My other cousin is Mayo. My second cousin is publicL library for a reading. What he found there astounded Urrea is no stranger to the shadows. In his American Book black. My niece is German. One branch of the Urreas is Chi- him: a massive sea of white and brown faces, packed into a Award-winning memoir Nobody’s Son, he writes about grow- nese. Other Urreas claim to be Basques. One great-grand- corporate-looking building that used to house an HMO. ing up on a dirt road in Tijuana, Mexico, and his path out. mother was Tarascan. My paternal grandmother was a Mur- What, he wondered, is going on here? “In the neighborhood where I came from, I was probably ray — Irish. My cousins are Hubbards. Somebody tell me, The answer astonished him. A rust belt town laid low by the only guy who read a book, much less wrote books,” he please, what a Mexican is.” the crashing economy, Kankakee found itself with an in- said. “I’m here because of my mom’s library and my library He grew up on the border. Now he delights in blurring the creasing number of Mexican immigrants. The mayor, Don- card. No question.” lines. ald Green, discovered that most of them hailed from Guana- Urrea often does public presentations on literacy and sees “When I look out on any audience, I see borders every- juato state. So he paid a visit, made some contacts and forged reading as a crucial part of gaining a foothold in the world. where,” he said. “It’s turned into a really brutal metaphor for a “sister city” relationship with Guanajuato. He also made an But he also knows it can be a tough sell. Get him going and what separates us as people. That’s become my job: to try to effort to integrate the newcomers and turn them into read- he’ ll give you the windup and the pitch. find bridges so we can pull together instead of push against ing, homebuying residents. “It’s a question of the children’s souls,” he said. “In a lot of each other.” Later, the mayor began welcoming the mostly black these communities, the parents maybe don’t have that psy- C u l t u r e c r i t i c C h r i s Vo g n a r w r i t e s a b o u t m ov i e s , b o o k s , T V former residents of the demolished Cabrini-Green housing chic space. They need the kids to go out and start making a n d m u s i c f o r T h e D a l l a s M o r n i n g N e w s . H e w i l l b e a s p e a ke r o n project in Chicago. The new library became the hub of activ- some money and have a craft: ‘You aren’t gonna sit around t h e C u l t u r a l C i t y p a n e l . ity for the revitalized town. reading Hardy Boys books. Are you crazy?’ Urrea, 59, chuckles at the plan’s audacity. But he’s dead “A lot of times my job is to astonish them when they see Fo l l ow C h r i s Vo g n a r o n Tw i t t e r a t @ c h r i s vo g n a r.

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GEORGE GETSCHOW CHRIS VOGNAR TERESA COLEMAN WASH JIN-YA HUANG George Getschow is writer in residence and direc- Chris Vognar is the award- Teresa Coleman Wash is the executive artis- Jin-Ya Huang is a multimedia artist tor of the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Confer- winning culture critic for The tic director and founder of TeCo Theatrical living in Dallas. At age 13, she im- ence, the nation’s preeminent narrative nonfiction Dallas Morning News, where Productions, an award-winning multicultur- migrated to the United States from conference. He’s a principal lecturer and writing he has worked since 1996. He al theater company at Bishop Arts Theatre Taipei, Taiwan. She wrestles with coach at the Frank W. Mayborn Graduate Institute is also co-host of The Big Center. The company produces theater per- Eastern and Western identities in of Journalism at the University of North Texas in Screen radio show on KERA, formances, jazz concerts, lecture series and her work, which focuses on the Denton. He spent 16 years working for The Wall Dallas’ NPR affiliate. He was a arts education programs aimed at providing social issues of being an immigrant, Street Journal as a reporter, editor, bureau chief 2009 Nieman Arts and Cul- performance and education opportunities living as a survivor of abuse and and on the Page One rewrite desk. While there, he ture Fellow at Harvard Uni- for local and emerging artists. Wash received developing as a working mother was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and won the versity. He has taught journal- the Trailblazer Award from the National and artist. Her work has appeared Robert F. Kennedy Award for distinguished writ- ism at Harvard Summer Association for the Study and Performance in galleries in New York and Dallas. ing about the underprivileged. In addition, Get- School, film history at the of African-American Music and the Profes- She’s lectured on drawing at the schow was inducted into the Texas Institute of University of Texas at Arling- sional Women’s Association Mabel Meshack Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth Letters for his “distinctive literary achievement,” ton and arts journalism at White Award, among others. She serves on and taught a continuing education and he served for the previous two years as a Pulit- Southern Methodist Universi- the steering committee for the Dallas Area course at Southern Methodist Uni- zer Prize jurist for feature writing. He is working ty. Vognar earned a B.A. in Cultural Advocacy Coalition and is the Dal- versity, among others. on a book, Walled Kingdom, based on two narra- English from the University of las-Fort Worth regional representative for Compiled by Elizabeth Hamilton tives he wrote for The Wall Street Journal. California, Berkeley. the Dramatists Guild of America.

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Festival HQ opens 8a.m. Lobby of the Winspear Opera House, 2403 Flora St. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Panel discussions for ticket holders. Free programming for all ages on the Ideas Stage and interactive booths at Sarah Hoffman/Staff Photographer the Winspear. Passes to the 1 p.m. panel and 4:45 p.m. closing remarks for The Bishop Arts District is a vital part of the Cultural City. The small shopping and entertainment area in north Oak Cliff hosts the annual non-ticketed visitors are available at Bastille on Bishop in July, with outdoor markets, wine tastings and music designed to celebrate French culture and the arts in Dallas. thedallasfestival.com or the Winspear on Saturday if space remains.

The Cultural City program 10:30-11:30 a.m. VOLUNTEER PERFORMANCE JAMAL MOHAMED Crow Collection of Asian Art, OPPORTUNITIES 2010 Flora St. Dual keynote speaker Chris Vognar, culture critic at The Dallas Morning News, will discuss with national keynote ArtPrize Dallas speaker Luis Alberto Urrea how his big 2711 N. Haskell Ave., Suite idea from the night before can be 2800, Dallas, Texas 75204 applied to Cultural Dallas. Moderated 214-696-7794 by George Getschow, writer in residence at the University of North Website: Texas Mayborn School of Journalism. artprizedallas.org Audience Q&A ■ Develop and lead various programs for the Lunch program inaugural year of ArtPrize Dallas, an international art Noon-2 p.m. competition set for April Free programming in the lobby of 2016. festival headquarters, Winspear Opera ■ Join the Wayfinders, an House. Concessions at the Winspear; ambassador program restaurants open in One Arts Plaza. designed to share 1-1:45 p.m. information about voting Panel discussion on how Dallas can for ArtPrize entries, attract and retain creative talent, with venues, events and the Zannie Voss, professor of arts city. management and entrepreneurship at ■ Help with ArtPrize voter SMU, and four performers. At Booker T. registration and visitor Washington High School. Introduced by support in various Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings. locations. 3:30-4:30 p.m. ■ Events support: Help Urrea and Vognar will regroup with run events including panelists Teresa Coleman Wash, Critical Discourse, Final 20 founder of TeCo Theatrical Productions, and ArtPrize Dallas Louis DeLuca/Staff Photographer and artist Jin-Ya Huang to drill down awards. into ideas for Cultural Dallas. At Crow Composer and performer Jamal Mohamed directs the Meadows World Music Ensemble at Southern Collection of Asian Art. ■ Artist hosting: Provide Methodist University. He will perform a solo percussion routine during Friday night’s opening event. housing or guide services Audience Q&A to out-of-town artists. Jamal Mohamed is a composer, performer, session musician, music therapist, clinician and drum circle facil- Conclusion Video Association itator. He serves on the faculty at Southern Methodist University’s Meadows School of the Arts, where he teaches 4:45-5:15 p.m. of Dallas percussion and directs the Meadows World Music Ensemble. Jamal has been a featured artist in international Closing remarks by T. D. Jakes. music, theater and dance events and also appears in several ensembles, including Jampact, D-Drum and the 1405 Woodlawn Ave., At Dallas City Performance Hall. Dallas, Texas 75208 Bridge. In 2010, Toca Percussion introduced the Jamal Doumbeks, drums he designed with Toca that are used by players worldwide. Website: videofest.org Closing party On stage: The Jamal Mohamed Quintet will play on the Dallas City Performance Hall stage during seating 5:30-8 p.m. ■ Outreach: Help make before Friday’s opening event. Jamal also will perform a five-minute solo percussion routine Friday, using the Toca a connection between Jamal Doumbek. He will play at 4 p.m. Saturday with the World Music Ensemble on the Ideas Stage at the Win- Barbecue, beer and music. a specific community At Winspear Opera House. and a film, usually spear Opera House and is a panelist at the 1 p.m. talent discussion. adocumentary. Compiled by Elizabeth Hamilton (Complete schedule on Page 26.)

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Continued from Page 1M tyke when she arrived with her family, but hey, she’s still here. These are creative people who have found comfortable niches far from the allure of the coasts. We like the people here and the hospi- tality of the natives. We like the quick winters and long summers. We like the ease with which artis- tically inclined individuals and communities seem to find each other. Perhaps most important, we like the buzz of a city that always seems to be in a state of becoming. Yes, our city politics can be staggeringly dysfunctional. Our suburban sprawl can be daunting. Victory Park didn’t work out like we hoped. Downtown still often feels like a ghost town. And yet things keep happening to generate optimism and urban vitality. I was a Klyde Warren Park skeptic until I started going there on summer nights and seeing densely packed crowds of varying age and ethnicity, enjoying a green space amid the downtown skyscrapers. This felt like a city. It’s still largely a city of neighborhoods rather than a concentrat- ed downtown, but those neighborhoods, too, are flecked with G.J. McCarthy/Staff Photographer bracing signs of life. Try this experi- “I was a Klyde Warren Park skeptic,” Chris Vognar acknowledges, “until I started going there on summer nights and seeing densely packed ment: Take a first-time visitor to crowds of varying age and ethnicity, enjoying a green space amid the downtown skyscrapers. This felt like a city.” The deck park opened in 2012. north Oak Cliff, visit the independent shops, restaurants and arts attractions, and see if the experi- Los Angeles — three times — for Cabaniss’ offer to become artistic gone a transformation,” Liles Culture critic ence matches up with your friend’s the sake of his music career, partic- director of the refurbished venue said. “It’s much more positive Chris Vognar expectations of Dallas. ularly for his band Cottonmouth, near the Bishop Arts District. and art-centered. It was a good writes about These kinds of phenomena don’t Texas. Liles is one of those guys who fit for me. The opportunity was movies, books, just encourage transplants to set “It was more advantageous for seems to know everyone in the very challenging but very ap- TV and music down roots; they also draw wander- me to be out there,” he said. “I could industry. He’s also a sort of am- pealing.” for The Dallas ing natives back into the fold. get more done from a business bassador for Dallas music and Challenging but appealing. Morning News. I’ve always been fascinated by perspective in the course of a week culture. Under his stewardship That’s a pretty good description He will be a speaker on the the story of North Dallas native than I could in a year in Dallas.” the historic Kessler has flourished of Dallas’ cultural future. Cultural City panel. Jeffrey Liles, a seminal figure in But home kept calling. He anew, and he’s had a front-row There’s work to be done. We’re Deep Ellum’s music scene of the moved back in 2007 and accepted seat for north Oak Cliff ’s renewal. not finished. And that’s a pretty Follow Chris Vognar on Twitter 1980s and ’90s. Liles has moved to Kessler Theatre owner Edwin “The whole area has under- enticing reason to stay. at @chrisvognar.

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WHAT’S NEXT? FESTIVAL PERFORMERS Turning ideas into action By DAVID FLICK Staff Writer [email protected]

arry Allums hopes the Dallas Festival of Ideas provokes original thinking about challenges facing Dallas. But if that’s all it does, he said, it will have failed. “We don’t want this to be another bunch of talking heads. We want to see some tangible results come out of Lthis,” said Allums, executive director of the Dallas Institute of Hu- manities and Culture, which spearheaded the ideas conference. “We’re serious, and that’s because we’ve got to be serious.” At the end of the festival, leaders in each of the conference’s catego- Louis DeLuca/Staff Photographer ries — known as cities — will form the nucleus of a committee de- David Rodriguez (left) and Will Richey reached outside the Arts District for performers from across the city. signed to come up with strategies to turn ideas spawned at the festival into concrete action. The five categories are the political city, the cultural city, the physical city, the innovative city and the educated city. Those leaders will appoint three members of the community at Artistic duo taps diverse talent large and another three members of the general public who attended the conference. That committee in turn will deliver its recommendations this fall By ELIZABETH HAMILTON to produce a true representation of represents “the underground”; Da- Staff Writer at the annual event called bigBANG! [email protected] the city’s arts community, Richey vid Lozano, a playwright whose BigBANG! — similar to the Festival of Ideas in its devotion to said. works appear in Spanish and Eng- dealing with local challenges — is presented by Social Venture Part- Friday night’s opening program “The Arts District, because it’s lish, represents “the connector”; ners Dallas, an organization of philanthropists pledged to devoting of keynote speakers will be punctu- known internationally, casts a large Maya Jones, a 20-year-old vocal their time and expertise to improving their communities, and the ated by five five-minute performanc- shadow over the rest of the city, the performance and music education United Way of Metropolitan Dallas. es by artists from various disciplines rest of the creative people like us,” he student at Southern Methodist Tony Fleo, CEO of Social Venture Partners Dallas, said his organi- and all corners of Dallas. said. “We didn’t want this festival to University, represents “the youth”; zation is partnering with festival organizers to create momentum for Curating these performances is a only have artists from the Arts Dis- and Michelle Gibson, a dancer who solutions that might arise from the event. pair of artists in their own right: trict.” relocated from New Orleans, repre- “One of the things that has concerned Social Venture Partners is David Rodriguez, a painter who goes Dallas Theater Center represents sents “the other.” that Dallas often does wonderful events with very little in the way of by the name Dr Gorilla, and Will the district among the performers, By featuring artists from varied organized follow-up,” he said. Richey, founder of the spoken word Richey said, but the other artists backgrounds, Richey and Rodriguez Fleo’s group is composed of engaged philanthropists who have business Journeyman Ink and host they chose differ vastly from one hope more people will recognize the access to funding, expertise and political support that can help push of the spoken word and poetry pro- another. They also correspond to wealth of creative communities an idea onto the public agenda. gram DaVerse Lounge. DaVerse, for several artist types coined by Richey across the city. As the festival committees make their presentations at bigBANG!, middle and high school students, is a himself. “One of the themes of what we’re he said, “the people sitting there will be watching to see what results program of the educational nonprof- Jamal Mohamed, a 66-year-old doing with the festival in general is can come of good ideas, or a strategy at least to make it happen.” it Big Thought. solo percussionist, represents “the understanding that talent is here,” Richey and Rodriguez deliber- elder”; Jerod Alexander Davies, a Rodriguez said. “Opportunity is Follow David Flick on Twitter at @DMNDavidFlick. ately chose a diverse group of artists self-taught multidisciplinary artist, here, specifically to Dallas.”

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The Hansol Samul drum group The Winspear performed Opera House during the was engineered opening for performances ceremony for of opera and the Crow musical theater. Collection of The 2,200-seat Asian Art’s Winspear’s Sculpture principal Garden in performance October 2013. space is the Guests toured Margaret the garden McDermott and rang the Performance Japanese bell Hall. for the first time. Guy Reynolds/Staff Photographer Sarah Hoffman/Staff Photographer

Tom Fox/Staff Photographer The 60-acre Dallas Arts District, on the northeastern side of downtown, consists of (clockwise from left foreground) the Dallas City Performance Center, Wyly Theatre, Hall Arts tower (under construction), Meyerson Symphony Center, Winspear Opera House and Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. THE ART OF DALLAS

allas, where change is a fact of exis- tence, has nowhere changed more D dramatically in the past 10 years than in its Arts District.

The long-neglected section of northeastern downtown was first identified as a potential site for the city’s art scene in the 1970s, but the vision unfolded slowly. The first arts venue, the Dallas Museum of Art, opened in 1984, followed five years later by the Meyerson Sympho- ny Center, and then — a full nine years after that — the Crow Collection of Asian Art. But beginning with the opening of Renzo Piano’s Nasher Sculpture Center in 2003, the district boomed. The expanded Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts was completed in 2008, followed a year later by the AT&T Performing Arts Center, which includes the Winspear Opera House and the Wyly Theatre. Three years after that, Dallas City Performance Hall, Klyde War- ren Park and the nearby Perot Museum of Nature and Science opened in quick succession. The district is not without critics, who have argued that the area needs more affordable housing, retail stores and Evans Caglage/Staff Photographer street life. The Meyerson Symphony Center celebrated its 25th anniversary last year. Designed by Nonetheless, CityLab, an online magazine devoted to noted architect I. M. Pei, the Meyerson is home to the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and was urban trends, this month singled out the Arts District as a named for Morton H. Meyerson, a former president of Electronic Data Systems. national example. It knew its readers would be surprised. “That’s right, the Big D,” said staff writer Kriston Capps, a former senior editor at Architect magazine. “If you look past the nation’s tallest and most spectacular designs and focus on the sheer concentration of great design, you’ll find that there is no place that packs in better design than the city’s Arts District.” David Flick

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Guy Reynolds/Staff Photographer Guy Reynolds/Staff Photographer Both old and modern architectural styles are evident at Booker T. Washington High School for Visitors to the Dallas Museum of Art viewed a set of photographs taken during the Performing and Visual Arts. In 2008, the $47 million state-of-the-art facility was completed. the first excavation of the tomb at the museum’s “Tutankhamun and the The main building was incorporated as a historical landmark. Students at the Dallas school Golden Age of the Pharaohs” exhibit in October 2008. district arts magnet select an arts cluster to major in: dance, music, visual arts or theater.

“If you look past the nation’s tallest and most spectacular designs and focus on the sheer concentration of great design, you’ll ﬁnd that there is no place that packs in better design than the city’s Arts District.”

Kriston Capps, CityLab magazine

Junior Players staged a teen production of the musical In the Heights at Dallas City Performance Hall in January. The hall opened in September 2012 and is a city-managed, publicly funded theater designed to provide a home in the Arts District for the city's emerging and midsize performing arts and cultural organizations.

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A visitor to the Dallas Museum of Art walks past the shadow of Shiva Nataraja, the Lord of the Dance in the art of medieval India, in the museum’s permanent collection. In 1984, the museum moved from Fair Park to the Arts District. Its Tom Fox/Staff Photographer collection contains more than 22,000 works of art from all cultures and time periods spanning 5,000 years. Fans waited to see the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, at the Winspear Opera House in September. Part of the AT&T Performing Arts Center, the Winspear opened in October 2009 and is the home of the Dallas Opera.

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FULL-DAY SCHEDULE FREE EVENTS

This information is subject to change. Get the latest event updates in the Feb. 27 The lobby Guide section or visit thedallasfestival.com. of the Winspear Opera FRIDAY House FEB. 27 will be a location Opening event: The Future Starts Here for free 7-9 p.m. events and interactive The five cities are unveiled, with 15-minute presentations of big ideas by booths. keynote speakers Luis Alberto Urrea, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Rahaf Harfoush, Elizabeth Green and Vishaan Chakrabarti, as well as interpretive artistic performances. At Dallas City Performance Hall, 2520 Flora St.

SATURDAY Lunch program FEB. 28 Noon-2 p.m. Festival HQ opens Free programming in the lobby of festival headquarters, Winspear 8a.m. Opera House, with artists, Lobby of the Winspear Opera interactive booths and action Kye R. Lee/Staff Photographer House, 2403 Flora St. stations. Concessions at the Winspear; restaurants open in 9 a.m.-5 p.m. One Arts Plaza. The lobby of the Winspear Opera House serves as the headquarters for the Dallas Festival of Ideas, and it will Panel discussions for ticket be home to free programming for all ages from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Feb. 28. holders will be at Dallas City Free lunchtime panel Learn how to get involved with your city. Visit with representatives from community and arts groups, browse Performance Hall, Crow the bookstore and stop at interactive stations offering activities such as art projects, a chance to build your own 1-1:45 p.m. Collection of Asian Art, Meyerson city, conversations over cups of tea and opportunities to design a T-shirt. Symphony Center, Dallas Museum Panel discussion on how Dallas can At the top of each hour from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., there will be free performances on the Ideas Stage with artists, of Art and Booker T. Washington attract and retain creative talent, dancers, singers and musicians. On the half hour, there will be five-minute presentations related to the five cities. High School for the Performing with Zannie Voss, professor of arts Two other events are free, but require registration for visitors without event tickets at thedallasfestival.com or and Visual Arts. management and arts the Winspear on Saturday if space remains. entrepreneurship at Southern Free programming for all ages on ■ Methodist University, and A panel discussion on how Dallas can attract and retain creative talent from 1 to 1:45 p.m. at Booker T. Wash- the Ideas Stage and interactive performers Jamal Mohamed, ington High School, with an introduction by Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings. Dr. Zannie Voss, professor of arts booths at the Winspear. Passes to Michelle Gibson, David Lozano management and arts entrepreneurship at Southern Methodist University, will lead the discussion with perform- the 1 p.m. panel and 4:45 p.m. and Will Richey. At Booker T. ers Jamal Mohamed, Michelle Gibson, David Lozano and Will Richey. closing remarks for non-ticketed Washington High School. ■ The closing event, at 4:45 p.m. at Dallas City Performance Hall, will feature T.D. Jakes, CEO of TDJ En- visitors are available at Introduced by Dallas Mayor Mike thedallasfestival.com or the terprises, founder of MegaFest and senior pastor of The Potter's House. Rawlings. Winspear on Saturday if space remains. FOR MORE on the free events, read Guide on Feb. 27. For a full list of participants and activities, The Physical City regroups visit thedallasfestival.com. The Educated City program 2-3 p.m. 9-10 a.m. Dual keynotes Chakrabarti and Lamster will regroup with PANEL MODERATOR DR. ZANNIE GIRAUD VOSS Dual keynote speaker Dr. Claudia panelists Maria Loveland Allums, director of the Louise and Schneider, a consultant with Dr. Zannie Giraud Voss is chair and Donald Cowan Center for Sustainable Development Education in Dallas, will discuss Resources, and Arturo del Castillo, professor of arts management and arts with national keynote speaker senior urban designer for the city entrepreneurship at Southern Meth- Elizabeth Green how her big idea of Dallas’ CityDesign Studio, to odist University’s Meadows School of from the night before can be drill down into ideas for Physical the Arts and Cox School of Business, applied to Educated Dallas. Dallas. Moderated by Whittington. as well as director of SMU’s National Moderated by Dr. Dan Russ, There will be an audience Q&A. Center for Arts Research. professor at Gordon College and At Dallas City Performance Hall. Previously, she was a professor of Trinity Forum senior fellow. There the practice in the theater studies will be an audience Q&A. At The Political City regroups Booker T. Washington High department and an adjunct professor School, 2501 Flora St. 2:30-3:30 p.m. in management at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. She also Dual keynotes Coates and Velasco The Political City program will regroup with panelists Lee served as producing director of The- ater Previews at Duke, a professional 9:30-10:30 a.m. Cullum, host of CEO on KERA-TV, and Michael J. Sorrell, Paul Quinn theater company dedicated to the Dual keynote speaker Florencia College president, to drill down development and co-production of Velasco Fortner, president and into ideas for Political Dallas. new works. CEO of The Concilio in Dallas, will Moderated by Ragland. There will Voss also served as managing direc- discuss with national keynote be an audience Q&A. At Dallas tor of PlayMakers Repertory Compa- speaker Ta-Nehisi Coates how his Museum of Art. ny and was a site visitor and panelist big idea from the night before can for the National Endowment for the be applied to Political Dallas. The Innovative City regroups Moderated by James Ragland, Arts. She is a member of the board of columnist for The Dallas Morning 3-4 p.m. the Cultural Data Project, on the exec- News. There will be an audience Dual keynotes Harfoush and Zielke utive committee of the board of trust- Q&A. At Dallas Museum of Art, will regroup with panelists Chad ees of Big Thought and co-author of 1717 N. Harwood St. Houser, chef and founder of Café the book Outrageous Fortune: The Life Momentum, and Trey Bowles, Kim Ritzenthaler Leeson and Times of the New American Play. The Innovative City program co-founder and CEO of the Dallas Dr. Zannie Giraud Voss is chair and professor of arts Compiled by Entrepreneur Center, to drill down 10-11 a.m. management and arts entrepreneurship at SMU. Elizabeth Hamilton into ideas for Innovative Dallas. Dual keynote speaker Gabriella Moderated by Yasmin. There will Draney Zielke, co-founder and be an audience Q&A. At Meyerson CEO of Tech Wildcatters, will Symphony Center. FREE WORKSHOP discuss with national keynote speaker Rahaf Harfoush how her The Cultural City regroups big idea from the night before can Children create be applied to Innovative Dallas. 3:30-4:30 p.m. animated films Moderated by Dr. Seema Yasmin, Dual keynotes Urrea and Vognar inside the Edge Dallas Morning News health writer, will regroup with panelists Teresa of Imagination professor in practice at the Coleman Wash, executive artistic Station, University of Texas at Dallas and director and founder of TeCo an Austin- medical analyst for KXAS-TV Theatrical Productions, and based mobile (NBC5) and CNN. There will be an multimedia artist Jin-Ya Huang to stop-motion audience Q&A. At Meyerson drill down into ideas for Cultural lab. Symphony Center, 2301 Flora St. Dallas. Moderated by Getschow. There will be an audience Q&A. At The Cultural City program Crow Collection of Asian Art. 10:30-11:30 a.m. The Educated City regroups Dual keynote speaker Chris Vognar, culture critic at The Dallas 3:30-4:30 p.m. Morning News, will discuss with Dual keynotes Green and Allums national keynote speaker Luis will regroup with panelists Alfonso Alberto Urrea how his big idea Correa, a teacher at Dallas’ Johnny Villarreal from the night before can be Talented and Gifted High School, applied to Cultural Dallas. and Onyema Nweze, Dallas school By JASMINE AGUILERA Moderated by George Getschow, district academic facilitator, to drill Staff Writer [email protected] writer-in-residence at the down into ideas for Educated University of North Texas Dallas. Moderated by Russ. There Festival attendees will be able to create short animated films at a free workshop hosted by the Edge of Imag- Mayborn School of Journalism. will be an audience Q&A. At ination Station, an Austin-based mobile stop-motion lab. There will be an audience Q&A. At Booker T. Washington High Johnny Villarreal, the lab’s creator, was invited to host the workshop by Bart Weiss, founder and artistic direc- Crow Collection of Asian Art, 2010 School. Flora St. tor of Dallas VideoFest and associate professor at UT-Arlington. Weiss has held animation workshops at the Dallas Museum of Art, but he said animation isn’t Conclusion The Physical City program part of his filmmaking background. He’s excited about bringing Villarreal on board. The two met 4:45-5:15 p.m. recently at a Texas Commission on the Arts event in Austin. 11 a.m.-noon What have we learned? What are “There isn’t anyone who doesn’t enjoy watching animation,” Weiss said. “I saw adults go [to Dual keynote speaker Mark the next steps? Closing remarks by Villarreal] and tap into their own creativity and the childlike joy that came back to them when Lamster, Dallas Morning News T.D. Jakes, CEO of TDJ Enterprises, they saw these animations. There’s just something about it that I hope a lot of people can be a part architecture critic and University founder of MegaFest and senior of.” of Texas at Arlington professor, pastor of The Potter’s House. At BART Villarreal’s mobile animation studio and software is designed for ease of use by children and will discuss with national keynote Dallas City Performance Hall. WEISS adults. He said people who use his props and software often start improvising a story with chalk speaker Vishaan Chakrabarti how drawings or figurines he has handy but will surprise themselves by what they are able to create as his big idea from the night before Closing party can be applied to Physical Dallas. their stories unfold. Moderated by Jeff Whittington, 5:30-8 p.m. “I hope that people who have never done something like this will feel inspired and self-confident,” said Villar- real, who teaches media and fine arts at a private middle and high school in Austin. “Empowerment is the point, so executive producer at KERA. Barbecue, beer and music. There will be an audience Q&A. At Winspear Opera House. that people can continue to create even after this event.” At Dallas City Performance Hall, The workshop will be from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Feb. 28 in the lobby of the Winspear Opera House, one of many free, 2520 Flora St. Compiled by Ann Pinson interactive workshops at the Dallas Festival of Ideas.

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GETTING AROUND

The Dallas Festival of Ideas events and panel discussions will be in six buildings in the Dallas Arts District. The five City locations are noted here, in colors keyed to their City. The Winspear Opera House will host free programming as well as the closing session and party. DART rail stations and parking are noted.

Klyde Warren Park Woodall Rodgers Freeway Crockett P Trolley Winspear stop Opera House Munger Festival Headquarters P

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P P Flora Ann Williams Routh Akard Harwood Olive P P Crockett Leonard Evans Jack P P Pearl rsPlaza Arts

Trolley stop P P Ross

U.S. Highway 75 P P Central Expressway

P P P PP San Jacinto

Dallas Crow Collection Meyerson Booker T. Dallas City Museum of Asian Art Symphony Washington Performance Crockett of Art Center High School Hall D/FW Federal for the DALLAS Performing and Visual FORT Arts WORTH Detail St. Paul Station Pearl Station

DART DART Bryan

Political City events Cultural City events Innovative City events Educated City events Physical City events Layne Smith/Staff Artist

Brad Loper/Staff Photographer Daniel Driensky/Special Contributor Among the graduates of Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and General admission to the Dallas Museum of Art is free every day and includes viewing Visual Arts are Grammy winner Norah Jones and baseball Hall of Famer Ernie Banks. the museum’s collection galleries and most exhibitions. LOGISTICS NOTE: This information is subject to change. Get the latest event updates in the Feb. 27 Guide section or visit thedallasfestival.com.

TICKETS PARKING AND TRANSPORTATION VENUES

Tickets are available at thedallasfestival.com or on Feb. 28 at DART RAIL: There are rail stops at Pearl and St. Paul streets. From All the venues are festival headquarters at the Winspear Opera House. Box office opens at 8 a.m. either station, walk two blocks north to the Arts District. For more in the Dallas Arts You can also register by calling the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture information and schedules, visit dart.org. District. at 214-871-2440. FRIDAY AT&T PERFORMING ARTS CENTER PARKING OPTIONS: The EVENT VENUE: TWO-DAY EVENT PASS: $90, includes the Feb. 27 event; admission to all Lexus Red Parking facility is on the north end of Jack Evans Street, Dallas City Feb. 28 sessions and panels; and the closing party, with barbecue and beer. below the Winspear Opera House. The Lexus Silver Parking facility Performance Hall, is below Dallas City Performance Hall. Parking in either lot is $15 2520 Flora St. TWO-DAY VIP EVENT PASS: Sold out. each day for the Feb. 27 event and all day on Feb. 28. VIP ticket holders will get free two-day parking in the Red or Silver lot. For SATURDAY FEB. 27 ONLY: Reduced-price tickets in “rush line” if seats are available. more information, visit attpac.org/your-visit/parking. FESTIVAL VENUES: FULL-DAY FEB. 28 PASS WITH BARBECUE AND BEER: $75 PLATINUM PARKING: For information on several locations, visit ■ Dallas City platinumparking.us/parking-locations/dallas/dallas-arts-district. FEB. 28 MORNING SESSION ONLY: $30 Performance Hall ARTS DISTRICT AREA PARKING LOTS: Go to thedallasarts FEB. 28 EVENING SESSION ONLY: $30 ■ Winspear district.org/visit/directions for details. Opera House, BARBECUE AND BEER ONLY: $30 2403 Flora St. ONE ARTS PLAZA PARKING: Find information at onearts plaza.com/parking. STUDENT TICKETS: Available at a 50 percent discount. ■ Meyerson Symphony Center, 2301 Flora St.

FOOD AND BEVERAGES FESTIVAL OF IDEAS SHUTTLES ■ Crow Collection of Asian Art, 2010 Flora St. All participants will have access to concessions throughout the day. Shuttles will be circulating on Flora Street from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wolfgang Puck will offer lunch, snacks and beverages for sale at the Feb. 28 between Dallas City Performance Hall and the Dallas ■ Dallas Museum concession stand at the Winspear. Outside food and beverages are not Museum of Art, with stops in between at the Crow, Meyerson, of Art, allowed at panel discussions. Winspear and Booker T. Washington High School. 1717 N. Harwood St.

■ Booker T. Washington High HOTEL PARTNER INCLEMENT WEATHER School for the Performing and The Fairmont Dallas Hotel is offering a $129 rate on Feb. 27 and 28. Use In case of inclement weather, check thedallasfestival.com for Visual Arts, promo code PFOI or mention Dallas Festival of Ideas when calling 214-720-2020. up-to-date information. 2501 Flora St.

SOURCE: Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture Compiled by Ann Pinson

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