New York Encounter is an annual four-day public cultural festival organized by Communion and Liberation and Crossroads Cultural Center. New York Encounter intends to offer to a large audience opportunities for education, dialogue, and friendship through conferences, artistic performances, and exhibits. Its goal is to foster, in a friendly January 14-17, 2011 and welcoming setting, interest in the full spectrum of reality and appreciation for what is New York City beautiful, true, good, and worthwhile in various expressions of human life. This openness and desire are the fruit of the education received in the Roman Catholic Church. conferences presentations Communion and Liberation DAYS is an international movement in artistic performances the Roman Catholic Church exhibits founded in 1954 by the late Msgr. Luigi Giussani. Its purpose is the education to the Catholic faith of its adherents. 4 www.clonline.org 2 LOCATIONS MANHATTAN CENTER NEW YORKER HOTEL Crossroads Cultural Center Friday, Saturday, Sunday Monday, January 17, 2011 was founded in 2004 by January 14-16, 2011 581 Eighth Avenue at 34th Street members of Communion and 311 West 34th Street New York, NY 10001 Liberation who shared an at 8th Avenue interest in the relationship New York, NY 10001 between religion and culture. St. Paul’s suggestion, "Test everything, retain what WWW.NEWYORKENCOUNTER.ORGis good," sums up All events are open to the public. Crossroads' ideals. TRANSPORTATION www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org The Manhattan Center is close to Port Authority Bus Terminal, Penn Station, New York Waterways Ferry Terminal, and A, C, and E subway lines stop at New York Encounter is a project of The 34th Street and 8th Avenue and the 1, 2, 3, and 9 lines stop at 34th Human Adventure Corporation, a New Street and 7th Avenue. York 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation. More information at: The Human Adventure (212) 337-3580 Corporation [email protected] 125 Maiden Lane, Suite 15E New York, NY 10038 www.newyorkencounter.org FRIDAY, JANUARY 14 MONDAY, JANUARY 17 MANHATTAN CENTER SUNDAY, JANUARY 16 NEW YORKER HOTEL 7:00 PM | HAMMERSTEIN BALLROOM MANHATTAN CENTER 10:30 AM | GRAND BALLROOM Education and Freedom in 10:30 AM | HAMMERSTEIN BALLROOM Giacomo Leopardi: Contemporary America Infinite Desire Opening key note speech by John New York Encounter Opens A homage to the Italian poet on the GARVEY, President of The Catholic Guided Tours of Exhibits occasion of the publication of his University of America 1:00 PM | 4:00 PM | 7:00 PM poems in the USA 8:00 PM | HAMMERSTEIN BALLROOM 11:30 AM | HAMMERSTEIN BALLROOM S p e a k e r s : Live Jazz Performance Mass with the Gospel Choir of Jonathan GALASSI The Xaverian Jazz Band St. Charles Borromeo Church President and Publisher of Farrar, Straus and Giroux in Harlem SATURDAY, JANUARY 15 Davide RONDONI 2:30 PM | HAMMERSTEIN BALLROOM Author and Poet MANHATTAN CENTER Joseph WEILER Reality, Reason, Freedom: 10:30 AM | HAMMERSTEIN BALLROOM Professor of Law, New York University At the Root of the Religious Quest New York Encounter Opens A discussion in light of The Religious Sense Guided Tours of Exhibits by Luigi Giussani EXHIBITS 11:00 AM | 12:00 PM | 1:00 PM S p e a k e r s : 6:00 PM | 7:00 PM Fr. Julián CARRÓN Flannery O’Connor: President of the Fraternity of Communion 2:00 PM | CONFERENCE ROOM A Limit with Infinite and Liberation Chopin, the Music of Drama H.E. Sean Cardinal O’MALLEY Measure The life and work of Flannery O’Connor, A presentation by Jonathan FIELDS, Archbishop of Boston the great 20th-century American author, Composer Michael WALDSTEIN is showcased in this exhibit. As an Professor of Theology, Ave Maria University 3:15 PM | CONFERENCE ROOM important American novelist, essayist, Jérôme Lejeune: 4:00 PM | CONFERENCE ROOM and short-story writer, O’Connor’s A True Scientist Being Entrepreneurial memorable characters and unforgettable Life and work of the great geneticist and settings reveal deep insights into our Beyond Limits doctor through the eyes of his daughter human existence. O'Connor once wrote: Charitable work and the challenge of Clara GAYMARD "Grace changes us and change is business: a new path of development in painful." She died at the age of 39 from 4:30 PM | HAMMERSTEIN BALLROOM service to the whole person. complications of lupus after a 14-year How to Build a Human A presentation by the founders of battle with the disease, but not before Economy for the Long Term in Los Angeles Habilitation House, Inc. leaving her mark on American literature. a (Post-?) Crisis Environment A discussion on the fundamental questions 5:30 PM | HAMMERSTEIN BALLROOM about work, economy, and finance Can an Accomplished Scientist Behind the Crisis, Beyond S p e a k e r s : Be a Genuine Believer Today? the Crisis: A New Concept Clara GAYMARD A discussion exploring the boundaries of of Work and of Finance VP of Government Strategy and Sales at faith and science The financial and economic crisis calls GE International; President and CEO of S p e a k e r s : us to change. Like all crises, it may be GE France Msgr. Lorenzo ALBACETE an opportunity to grow. But this Carla HENDRA Theologian and Author opportunity can be missed if we do not Founding Chairman, Global Strategy & Kenneth MILLER try to assess the causes (not merely Innovation at Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide Professor of Biology, Brown University thescapegoats) behind the crisis and the William McGURN Charles TOWNES factors which can move us beyond it. How and why did this crisis happen? The Wall Street Journal Nobel Prize Winner in Physics WWW.NEWYORKENCOUNTER.ORG What lies behind it? What might be the 6:00 PM | CONFERENCE ROOM 8:30 PM | HAMMERSTEIN BALLROOM way forward? The exhibit offers some Our Primary Need Is to Be A New York Night starting points for discussion. Loved: The Case of Euthanasia in Quebec Images, readings, and subway artists hosted by “Blue Lou” MARINI, Musician A dialogue among health care OUR APPROACH TO REALITY professionals interested in more 9:45 PM | HAMMERSTEIN BALLROOM person-oriented medical care, Love, truth, beauty, and justice are at organized by the MedConference The Rimini Meeting 2011 the center of and give meaning to our And existence becomes human experience. “Our Approach to 8:00 PM | HAMMERSTEIN BALLROOM an immense certainty Reality” is a series of displays The Tidings Brought to Mary To conclude the evening, Marco Aluigi, highlighting charitable, cultural, The Blackfriars Repertory Theater and Vice Director and Congress Manager of and work-related initiatives including The Storm Theater present a special benefit the Rimini Meeting will introduce the Rimini in the areas of: Education, Medicine, performance of the play by Paul Claudel Meeting 2011 Charity, Music, Arts, Mission, and TICKETS: $30 | Open seating Literature. Come meet and talk with Tickets online at www.newyorkencounter.org those involved in these initiatives. or at the door starting on Friday, January 14, 2011.