sponsored by Ideas That Work june 29 - july 5 2009 aspen colorado

We all get excited about great ideas. It is in our nature to think—and think creatively. What is really important now—in a time when so much needs to be re-worked, re-thought, resolved — is whether some of the great ideas we come up with can really come to life. This year at the Aspen Ideas Festival, we are exploring the American economy, the global economy, justice in our society, our natural environment, and the media—all to discover the serious problems within each, and, even more importantly, the real solutions. Our hope is to broaden the conversation, stimulate the thinking of many, and begin to apply ourselves by implementing the best ideas on the planet. Join us to listen, discuss, connect, and act. Through the week of this event, we welcome as many members of the public as our generous host venues can accommodate. We look forward to conversations that spill out onto the streets of Aspen and throughout the communities of the Roaring Fork Valley. please join us

FESTIVAL PUBLIC EVENTS at a glance

MONDAY, JUNE 29 WEDNESDAY, JULY 1 THURSDAY, JULY 2 FRIDAY, JULY 3 7:30pm 7:45am – 8:45am 7:45am – 8:45am 7:45am – 8:45am Creating Art Out of Reality: The Ascent of Finance…and the Descent of RESET: How This Economic Crisis Can Last Child In the Woods: Saving Our One Evening, One Ticket, Democracy? Restore Our Values and Renew America Children from Nature Deficit Disorder Two Extraordinary Performances Hotel Jerome Ballroom Limelight Lodge Limelight Lodge Concert and Conversation with Peter Buffett Theatrical performance and Discussion: 7:45am – 8:45am 7:45am – 8:45am 12:00pm – 1:00pm “SEVEN”, a play The Constitution in 2020 The End of American Exceptionalism? The Root Problem of the Middle East Crisis Aspen District Theatre Limelight lodge Hotel Jerome Ballroom Hotel Jerome Ballroom

12:00pm – 1:00pm 12:00pm – 1:00pm 7:30pm TUESDAY, JUNE 30 Race and Humor How to Raise a Drug Free Kid: The Straight Latin Music USA: It’s Gonna Move You Dope for Parents 7:45am – 8:45am Hotel Jerome Ballroom Belly Up Aspen Hotel Jerome Ballroom The World Is Curved: Hidden Dangers to the Global Economy 12:00pm – 1:00pm 8:00pm Hotel Jerome Ballroom 1959 12:00pm – 1:00pm Bigger than Carnegie, Faster than Limelight Lodge Water and the Changing Face of the Starbucks: Scaling Literacy American West 12:00pm – 1:00pm Paepcke Auditorium Limelight Lodge Human Rights and Civil Society 7:30pm – 8:30pm Hotel Jerome Ballroom Will Obamanomics Work? 8:00pm Belly Up Aspen 2:00pm – 6:00pm Inspired to Action AN AFTERNOON OF CONVERSATION 8:00pm Hotel Jerome Ballroom The Aspen Music Festival’s Film Screening and Discussion: Food, Inc. 8:00pm – 9:00pm Benedict Music Tent Paepcke Auditorium For Car Enthusiasts Only Limelight Lodge SATURDAY, JULY 4 7:30 pm 8:30 pm 7:00pm Permanent Paper Buildings: Shigeru Ban What’s the News Worth to You? 8:30pm – 10:00pm “Studio 360” with guests Film and Discussion: Ten9Eight: Shoot for Presented in partnership with the Aspen They Might Be Giants Hotel Jerome Ballroom Art Museum the Moon Belly Up Aspen Paepcke Auditorium 8:30pm Paepcke Auditorium Obama and the Challenge of Expectations: 9:15pm 7:30pm A Look at the President’s First Six Months 8:30pm – 10:00pm America and the World Sure Thing: An Evening with Playwright The Bard and the Buck Hotel Jerome Ballroom Doerr Hosier Center David Ives Hotel Jerome Ballroom Belly Up Aspen 9:30pm – 10:30pm Favorite Poems: Ours and Yours Tickets for the individual public events will go on sale June 22 8:00pm – 9:00pm Aspen Meadows Resort, The Fate of Wildlife in Modern Africa through Aspen Show Tickets at the Wheeler in person, online at Heffner Lounge www.aspenshowtickets.com, or by calling 970.920.5770. Limelight Lodge Who knows... In person and online orders are encouraged. There is a $4.00 charge 9:30pm for orders placed by phone. The News Has No Clothes there might be more. Presented by Comedy Arts Studios Stay tuned! For information, please call: 970.544.7970 In Partnership with The Onion Aspen District Theatre

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The following programs are open to the public, starting at $20 per event. Space is limited, and the schedule is subject to change; please check the pages of The Aspen Times and listen to KAJX (91.5FM) daily June 29- July 5. For more information on the Aspen Ideas Festival, visit www.aifestival.org. Tickets are available starting June 22, through the Wheeler Opera House box office at (970) 920-5770 and www.aspenshowtickets.com, or in person at the Wheeler Box Office.

Monday, June 29 tuesday, June 30 evening exchanges breakfast session Creating Art Out of Reality: David Smick: The World Is Curved: Hidden Dangers to One Evening, One Ticket, the Global Economy Two Extraordinary Performances 7:45 am Hotel jerome ballroom, $35 7:30 pm aspen district theater, $20 Described by New York Times columnist David Brooks as “astonishingly prescient,” Concert and Conversation with Peter Buffett David Smick’s The World Is Curved picks up where Thomas Friedman’s The World The evening will begin with a concert and conversation with Peter Buffett, Is Flat left off. Smick describes the underside of globalization, the financial the Emmy Award-winning composer and musician. While Buffett has dangers looming just over the horizon. He argues that the economic model under remained behind the scenes as a composer of jingles, movie soundtracks, which the world has been operating has crash-landed – and it’s time for a new and atmospheric sound collections for the majority of his career, he began financial doctrine for the twenty-first century. experimenting with vocals and a more eclectic new wave sound in recent years. David Smick Buffett is a composer, storyteller, activist, and philanthropist, and his work crosses all formats and genres and grooves together. All of this work supports important causes, as he will share with the audience after his concert. A lunch discussion special evening is in store with Peter Buffett on the piano, joined by renowned cellist, Michael Kott. Human Rights and Civil Society Peter Buffet 12:00 PM Hotel jerome ballroom, $45 Michael Kott Independent civil society groups are at the front lines of change in their own societies. But in many places where they are needed most, they face intimidation Theatrical Performance and Discussion: SEVEN by government and private actors, intent on preserving the status quo. How do Introduction by Congresswoman Jane Harman advocates for human rights operate in these challenging environments? Human SEVEN is a groundbreaking work of documentary theater that captures the Rights First leader Elisa Massimino discusses these issues with Mu Sochua, remarkable lives of a diverse and courageous group of women leaders around Cambodia’s minister of women’s affairs, and Marina Pisklakova, an activist in the world. A collaboration by seven playwrights, the play is based on personal Russia hell-bent on offering a better life to women who suffer at the hands of interviews with seven women in the Vital Voices Global Leadership Network their husbands (one in four); both of these valiant leaders share a commitment who have triumphed over enormous obstacles to bring about major changes to combating human-trafficking in their respective countries and to raising global in their home countries. The lives of these women provide a portal through awareness. which audiences will be able to experience a diversity of cultures while bearing Marina Pisklakova witness to the varied ways in which individual women have overcome seemingly Mu Sochua insurmountable hurdles to justice, freedom, and equality. Moderator Elisa Massimino Panel Introduction by Alyse Nelson Marina Pisklakova Mu Sochua evening exchanges Moderator Anna Deavere Smith Film and Discussion: Food, Inc. 8:00 pm Paepcke Auditorium, $20 How much do we really know about the food we buy at our local supermarkets and serve to our families? In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government’s regulatory agencies. Robert Kenner Moderator Corby Kummer What’s the News Worth to You? 8:30 pm Hotel Jerome Ballroom, $20 Where do YOU get your news? Do you pay for it? Take it for granted? Read the paper? Watch a screen? For those trying to understand the news consumer, it’s the dawn of a new era. What business models will save — or replace — advertising-driven newspapers, magazines, the nightly news and other time- honored systems? Who will you trust to deliver accurate information about our world — and how much would you pay for it? Top executives at ABC, TIME, the Washington Post, and Bloomberg will consider what they know about today’s and tomorrow’s news consumers, plus the challenges and opportunities they all face. David Westin Katharine Weymouth Josh Tyrangiel Steven Brill Moderator Walter Isaacson

Obama and the Challenge of Expectations: A Look at the President’s First Six Months 8:30 pm Doerr-Hosier center, McNulty Room, $20 Political experts and insiders weigh in — and ask what you think. Margaret Carlson Charles Ogletree Linda Wertheimer Fred Wertheimer Others Moderator Ron Brownstein

wednesday, July 1 breakfast sessions lunch discussions The Ascent of Finance… and the Descent of 1959 Democracy? 12:00 pM Limelight Lodge, $45 7:45 AM Hotel Jerome Ballroom, $35 Fred Kaplan, Slate columnist and author of 1959: The Year Everything Historian Niall Ferguson draws on his recent best-seller, The Ascent of Money, to Changed, takes a revisionist view of the late 1950s—an era that spawned the set the current financial crisis in long-run perspective. Just what will the political— jet age, the space age, free speech, free jazz, modern rock, Pop art, indie films, and geopolitical—consequences of the crisis be around the world? Past crises, the computer revolution, the sexual revolution, the beginnings of superpower like the Depression, weakened democracy. Could this one have similar effects, détente and the war in Vietnam—and examines its parallels with the hopes and destabilizing new democracies in Eastern Europe, destroying respect for Parliament perils of our own New Frontier a half-century later. in Britain, and propelling Communist China into a new position of economic parity Fred Kaplan with the United States. Niall Ferguson evening exchanges The Constitution in 2020 Will Obamanomics Work? 7:45 AM limelight lodge, $35 7:30 PM Belly Up Aspen, $20 What will be the great constitutional questions during the next decade? Where The business press reviews 3 the historic economic agenda that President is our Constitution going and where should it go? Yale Law Professor Jack Balkin Obama has laid out to date. Will his policies work? talks about the future of the Supreme Court and interpreting the Constitution in the age of Obama. University of Texas Professor Sandy Levinson asks what’s Stephen J. Adler, Megan McArdle, David Wessel, Clive Crook broken with our system and what needs fixing. Moderator Margaret Carlson Sponsored by Shell Jack Balkin Sandy Levinson For Car Enthusiasts Only 8:00 PM Limelight Lodge, $20 What are the most exciting four-wheeled memories of those who have lunch discussions devoted their lives to the auto industry? Hear from John Devine, a former Ford and GM chief financial officer; Paul Ingrassia, ’s Race and Humor former point man on the auto industry for two decades; and Csaba Csere, 12:00 PM Hotel Jerome Ballroom, $45 who tested over 1,000 cars during his 28-year career at Car and Driver An exploration of how humor has been used to say what we often cannot about magazine. This is your chance to learn what it’s like to drive the $1.5 million, race. 1,000-horsepower Bugatti Veyron at 253 mph and to share your own Ta’Nehisi Coates experiences behind the wheel. Larry Wilmore Csaba Csere, Paul Ingrassia

wednesday, July 1 Film and Discussion: Ten9Eight: Shoot for the Moon The Bard and the Buck 8:30 pm Paepcke Auditorium, $20 8:30 pM Hotel Jerome Ballroom, $20 In the United States, a kid drops out of high school every nine seconds. Imagine Don’t believe Shakespeare wrote about the economic woes and government if they didn’t. Ten9Eight from award-winning filmmaker Mary Mazzio chronicles machinations of today? You’ll doubt no further after seeing the witty “Bard on the inspirational stories of several teens from low-income communities (from Bucks,” featuring prominent Festival speakers—adorned in pumpkin shorts Harlem to Compton and all points in between) as they compete in an annual and hoop skirts—who will dramatically deliver the Bard’s quips on our woeful business-plan competition run by the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship. predicament. They’ll toss out “paper bullets of the brain” (Much Ado About These remarkable kids are all are striving to defy the statistics: 1.2 million high Nothing), there will be “much throwing about of brains” (Hamlet), and they will school kids drop out of school every year; and 50 percent of African American, have the whole audience saying, “Zounds! We were never so bethumped with Hispanic, and Native American high school students will fail to graduate with words” (King John). Miss it not. Sponsored by Phillips their high school class. For many of these students, learning how to become an Ken Adelman Andrew Sullivan entrepreneur is destiny-changing. Carol Adelman Douglas Holtz-Eakin Rodney Walker, Mary Mazzio, Amy Rosen Sponsored by Altria Michael Chertoff Meryl Chertoff moderator Steven Brill Bob Schieffer Justice Stephen Breyer Lynda Resnick Justice Sandra Day O’Connor thursday, July 2 breakfast discussions we’ve used for the last 100 years? With climate change, population shifts, and RESET: How This Economic Crisis Can Restore Our more, the answer is clearly no, but what will replace the current system? Values and Renew America David Kennedy 7:45 AM Limelight Lodge, $35 Is this the end of American excess? Afternoon 0f Conversation Kurt Andersen 2:oo - 6:00 PM Nancy Gibbs The aspen Music Festival’s Benedict Music tent, $75 The End of American Exceptionalism? See page 7 for full program 7:45 AM Hotel Jerome Ballroom, $35 American actions play on the world stage; this assumption has been a part of evening exchanges our politics since the first settlers arrived in New England. Over the centuries, it has been used to justify foreign policies ranging from isolationism to Permanent Paper Buildings: Shigeru Ban interventionism, but each of these philosophies shared the belief that the United 7:30 PM. Paepcke Auditorium, $20 States was different—less a part of the world than apart from it, or even above it. Increasingly, this approach relied on Washington’s overwhelming military Called “the accidental environmentalist” by , architect Shigeru and economic power. Yet, following the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, as well as Ban will discuss his creative process, which extends beyond saving energy and the the global financial crisis, America finds itself in a weaker position, and with a use of recycled materials into an exploration of people’s emotional connections president who speaks of global leadership in a humbler fashion. Is American to their living and work spaces. Shigeru Ban Architects (Tokyo/Paris/New York) exceptionalism dead, and if not, what does it mean in the 21st century? Sandy are currently working on the Pompidou Centre’s historic, first satellite institution: Levinson asks what’s broken with our system and what needs fixing. the Centre Pompidou-Metz in eastern France. Ban’s extensive humanitarian work includes the design of low-cost shelters for individuals displaced by earthquakes Niall Ferguson David Sanger and floods. He was a visual art and design finalist for the 2009 Aspen Institute Mickey Edwards Energy and Environment Awards. This lecture is presented as part of the Aspen Art Moderator J. Peter Scoblic Museum’s Architecture Lecture Series in collaboration with the Aspen Ideas Festival. Shigeru Ban lunch sessions Sure Thing: An Evening with Playwright David Ives How to Raise a Drug-Free Kid in America: The Straight 7:30 PM belly up aspen, $20 Dope for Parents In recent years, David Ives has been the most widely performed playwright since 12:00 PM Hotel Jerome Ballroom, $45 Shakespeare. It’s easy to see why: He is hilarious, original, and ingeniously touching. Tonight’s event includes a conversation with Ives along with a Nearly every child will be offered drugs or alcohol before graduating high presentation of his comic sketch, Sure Thing. school. The good news is that a child who gets to age 21 without smoking, using illegal drugs, or abusing alcohol is virtually certain never to do so. How to talk to David Ives Actors: David Ledingham, Paige Price your kids about drugs and alcohol. How to respond when your kid asks, “Did you Moderator Dana Gioia do drugs?” Joseph Califano The Fate of Wildlife in Modern Africa Water and the Changing Face of the American West 8:00 PM limelight lodge, $20 African Wildlife Foundation CEO Dr. Patrick Bergin will present a vision and 12:00 PM Limelight Lodge, $45 a program plan to make some of Africa’s most important large conservation Like any living organism, America depends on water. And today, especially in landscapes sustainable engines of ecological and economic benefit—for the the critical and fast-growing Western regions of the country, water has become continent and the world. a defining issue: who owns it, who controls access to it, who gets to use it and Patrick Bergin how. Can we continue to live by the infrastructure and water allocations that Thursday, July 2 evening exchanges The News Has No Clothes 9:30 pm, Aspen District Theatre, $20 Presented by Comedy Arts Studios, In Partnership with The Onion The News Has No Clothes — with Lewis Black, D.L. Hughley, Dana Perino, Larry Wilmore, anchored by Kurt Andersen, and featuring satirical comedy pieces from Harry Shearer and The Onion — is an irreverent take on the biggest news stories in politics, culture, and hot-button issues with an all-star group of newsmakers and comics. Featuring live performances and genuine debate with many of the featured guests at the Aspen Ideas Festival, this one-time-only event is guaranteed to make its own hilarious headlines. friday, July 3 breakfast session the heart of jazz, rock, country, and rhythm and blues. Join Bobby Sanabria— percussionist, composer, recording artist, conductor, educator, multi-cultural Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from warrior, and multiple Grammy nominee—for film clips, music, and an on-stage Nature Deficit Disorder conversation with the series’ executive producer Elizabeth Deane and producer 7:45 aM Limelight Lodge, $35 Pamela A. Aguilar. Richard Louv, chairman of the Children & Nature Network, speaks about the Pamela Aguilar Elizabeith Deane transformation in the relationship between children and nature—how society Bobby Sanabria is teaching young people to avoid direct experience in nature. That unintended message is delivered by schools, families, even organizations devoted to the Bigger than Carnegie, Faster than Starbucks: Scaling outdoors, and codified into the legal and regulatory structures of many of our local communities. Louv describes the new body of scientific evidence, Literacy demonstrating just how important direct contact with the outdoors is to healthy 8:oo pm Paepcke Auditorium, $20 child development—touching on such health issues as ADHD, childhood obesity, Room to Read’s John Wood uses scale and vision to deliver books and literacy stress, creativity, and cognitive functioning. To stimulate a “Leave No Child Indoors” to millions of children across the developing world. A discussion on the movement, Louv offers practical suggestions for action by parents, grandparents, formation of Room to Read: What was the inspiration? how did we get it off government agencies, conservationists, urban planners, educators, and others the ground?, what challenges were there?, how has it expanded so quickly? concerned about the future of childhood and the Earth itself. John Wood Richard Louv Moderator Jane Wales lunch discussion SPECIAL EVENT: Inspired to Action 8:oo pm Hotel Jerome Ballroom, $20 The Root Problem of the Middle East Crisis Meet William, who at 14, harnessed the wind to power his village in Malawi. 12:00 pM Hotel Jerome Ballroom, $45 Meet Logan and Darius who are spreading the word -- from a wheelchair that Whether, when, and how we should make moral assessments of the actions and defines cool -- about Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, the number one genetic values of different cultures. killer of children in the U.S. Meet Ana, who at age 11, founded Peruvian Dennis Prager Hearts to provide a better life for child orphans in her native country. Meet Palwasha, who at age 17, has courageously begun a women’s movement in evening exchanges Afghanistan. Co-hosted by Global Nomads Group and the Bezos Scholars Program, and moderated by Anna Deavere Smith, this panel will explore Latin Music USA: It’s Gonna Move You the personal stories of five extraordinary young leaders. Learn what triggers innovation and leave inspired! 7:30 PM belly up aspen, $20 Presented by the Bezos Scholars Program and the Global Nomads Group A groundbreaking musical exploration, Latin Music USA is a four-part PBS film Palwasha Zarifi, William Kamkwamba,A na Dodson, Darius Weems, series premiering on October 12, 2009. The films highlight the great American Logan Smalley music created by Latinos over five decades and celebrate the Latin rhythms at Moderator Anna Deavere Smith saturday, July 4 America and the World evening exchanges 9:15 pM Hotel Jerome Ballroom, $20 After the fireworks, ambassadors from the United Kingdom, Japan, Morocco, “Studio 360” with guests They Might Be Giants and Syria offer diverse and insightful perspectives on America’s image, 7:00 PM Belly Up Aspen, $20 challenges, and responsibilities in the world today. Live from the Aspen Ideas Festival: The Peabody Award-winning “Studio 360” Ichiro Sujisaki, Sir Nigel Sheinwald, Aziz Mekuoar, Imad Moustapha with Kurt Andersen, from Public Radio International and WNYC, is public radio’s Moderator Steve Redisch smart and surprising guide to what’s happening in pop culture and the arts. Each week, Kurt Andersen introduces you to the people who are creating and Favorite Poems: Ours and Yours shaping our culture. This week, “Studio 360” will air live from the Festival and 9:30 pM Aspen Meadows Resort, Heffner Lounge, $20 feature musical guests They Might Be Giants and other Festival presenters. Poetry should be a pleasure, but it is often presented in ways that even smart Tickets are available for the public.” people find intimidating. Tonight, two leading American poets will share their “Studio 360” airs Sundays at 3 p.m. on Aspen Public Radio and on more than favorite poems in an informal atmosphere. And they invite audience members 150 public radio stations around the country. Check out Studio360.org for to bring favorite poems of their own to share. broadcast times, free podcasts, videos, and more. Elizabeth Alexander Dana Gioia Sponsored by Thomson thursday, july 2 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm [doors open at 1:30 pm] an afternoon of conversation at the Aspen Music Festival’s Benedict Music Tent $75 Eric Lander Eric Holder Co-Chair, President’s Council of Advisors on US Attorney General Science and Technology; Founding Director, Broad Institute; Professor, MIT and Harvard Medical School

Stephen Breyer Bob Schieffer Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the Chief Washington Correspondent, CBS United States News; Moderator, “Face the Nation”

Madeleine Albright Elizabeth Alexander founder, The Albright Group, LLC; former Poet; Professor and Chair, African US Secretary of State; Trustee, The Aspen American Studies Department, Yale Institute University

James A. Baker III Anna Deavere Smith Senior Partner, Baker Botts, LLP; -Nominated Playwright and former US Secretary of State Actress; Professor, New York University; Trustee, The Aspen Institute

Moderator: Charlie Rose Executive Editor and Anchor, “Charlie Rose”

Students of the Aspen Music Festival and School perform Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man James Feddeck, conductor

Reading the Human Genome - Science, Medicine, & Society in the 21st Century A talk by biologist and leader of the Human Genome Project Eric Lander

A Conversation with Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer interviewer Charles Ogletree

Is Peace Possible? The Future of Israel, Palestine, and America in the Middle East Secretaries of State Madeleine Albright and James A. Baker III moderator Charlie Rose

A Conversation with Attorney General Eric Holder interviewer Bob Schieffer

The Financial Collapse and the Developing World Peruvian Nobel Laureate Hernando de Soto and former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright will explore the impact and opportunities of the current recession for some of the world’s most vulnerable people.

An American Voice A conversation with 2009 presidential inaugural poet and scholar Elizabeth Alexander. interviewer Anna Deavere Smith the aspen ideas festival presents Special Events Creating Art Out of Reality: One E vening, One Ticket, Two Extraordinary Performances June 29, 7:30 pm, Aspen District Theatre, $20 Concert and Conversation with Peter Buffett The evening will begin with a concert and conversation with Peter Buffett, the Emmy Award-winning composer and musician. While Buffett has remained behind the scenes as a composer of jingles, movie soundtracks, and atmospheric sound collections for the majority of his career, he began experimenting with vocals and a more eclectic new wave sound in recent years. Buffett is a composer, storyteller, activist, and philanthropist, and his work crosses all formats and genres and grooves together. All of his work supports important causes, as he will share with the audience after his concert. A special evening is in store with Peter Buffett on the piano, joined by renowned cellist, Michael Kott. Peter Buffett, Michael Kott Theatrical Performance and Discussion: SEVEN Introduction by Congresswoman Jane Harman SEVEN is a groundbreaking work of documentary theater that captures the remarkable lives of a diverse and courageous group of women leaders around the world. A collaboration by seven playwrights, the play is based on personal interviews with seven women in the Vital Voices Global Leadership Network who have triumphed over enormous obstacles to bring about major changes in their home countries. The lives of these women provide a portal through which audiences will be able to experience a diversity of cultures while bearing witness to the varied ways in which individual women have overcome seemingly insurmountable hurdles to justice, freedom, and equality. After this powerful performance, Anna Deavere Smith, one of the playwrights, will lead a discussion with two of the real women featured in the play. Panel Introduction by Alyse Nelson. Marina Pisklakova, Mu Sochua moderator Anna Deavere Smith Food, Inc: Film Screening and Discussion June 30, 8:00 pm, Paepcke Auditorium, $20 How much do we really know about the food we buy at our local supermarkets and serve to our families? In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government’s regulatory agencies. Robert Kenner moderator Corby Kummer

Film and Discussion: Ten9Eight: Shoot for the Moon July 1, 8:30 pm, Paepcke Auditorium, $20 In the United States, a kid drops out of high school every nine seconds. Imagine if they didn’t. Ten9Eight from award-winning filmmaker Mary Mazzio chronicles the inspirational stories of several teens from low-income communities (from Harlem to Compton and all points in between) as they compete in an annual business- plan competition run by the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship. These remarkable kids are all are striving to defy the statistics: 1.2 million high school kids drop out of school every year; and 50 percent of African American, Hispanic, and Native American high school students will fail to graduate with their high school class. For many of these students, learning how to become an entrepreneur is destiny-changing. Rodney Walker, Mary Mazzio, Amy Rosen moderator Steven Brill The News Has No Clothes July 2, 9:30 pm, Aspen District Theatre, $20 Presented by Comedy Arts Studios, In Partnership with The Onion The News Has No Clothes — with Lewis Black, D.L. Hughley, Dana Perino, Larry Wilmore, anchored by Kurt Andersen, and featuring satirical comedy pieces from Harry Shearer and The Onion — is an irreverent take on the biggest news stories in politics, culture, and hot-button issues with an all-star group of newsmakers and comics. Featuring live performances and genuine debate with many of the featured guests at the Aspen Ideas Festival, this one-time-only event is guaranteed to make its own hilarious headlines. Latin Music USA: It’s Gonna Move You July 3, 7:30 pm – 8:30pm, Belly Up Aspen, $20 A groundbreaking musical exploration, Latin Music USA is a four-part PBS film series premiering onO ctober 12, 2009. The films highlight the great American music created by Latinos over five decades and celebrate the Latin rhythms at the heart of jazz, rock, country, and rhythm and blues. Join Bobby Sanabria—percussionist, composer, recording artist, conductor, educator, multi-cultural warrior, and multiple Grammy nominee — for film clips, music, and an on-stage conversation with the series’ executive producer Elizabeth Deane and producer Pamela A. Aguilar. Pamela A. Aguilar, Elizabeth Deane, Bobby Sanabria “Studio 360” with guests They Might Be Giants July 4, 7:00 pm, Belly Up Aspen, $20 Live from the Aspen Ideas Festival: The Peabody Award-winning “Studio 360” with Kurt Andersen, from Public Radio International and WNYC, is public radio’s smart and surprising guide to what’s happening in pop culture and the arts. Each week, Kurt Andersen introduces you to the people who are creating and shaping our culture. This week, “Studio 360” will air live from the Festival and feature musical guests They Might Be Giants and other Festival presenters. Tickets are available for the public. “Studio 360” airs Sundays at 3 p.m. on Aspen Public Radio and on more than 150 public radio stations around the country. Check out Studio360.org for broadcast times, free podcasts, videos, and more. Favorite Poems: Ours and Yours July 4, 9:30 pm, Aspen Meadows Resort, Heffner Lounge, $20 Poetry should be a pleasure, but it is often presented in ways that even smart people find intimidating. Tonight, two leading American poets will share their favorite poems in an informal atmosphere. And they invite audience members to bring favorite poems of their own to share. Elizabeth Alexander, Dana Gioia