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 FOR MORE INFORMatiON - www.aifestival.org or call 970 544 7970 public EVENTS 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 Norman Pearlstine 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.