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. The documentary was later nominated for an Academy Award.
Playwright, actor and educator Anna Deavere Smith and Arts activist and former New York City Ballet Principal Dancer Damian Woetzel discuss the challenges facing the arts world. Moderated by NPR arts reporter Neda Ulaby. This event is closed; to learn more, please contact Linda Lehrer.
Spring Piano Concert featuring musicians from The Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University.This event is open to members of the Aspen Wye Fellows Program, Friends of Wye and the general public.
A panel discussion presented by Theater Masters, moderated by the artistic director of a leading New York Off Broadway Theater, Primary Stages, Andrew Leynse; and Julia Hansen, founder of Theater Masters. Playwrights are from Brown, Yale, Columbia, NYU, Carnegie Mellon, Northwestern, the Roaring Fork Valley, and others.
Featuring Clark Kent Ervin, director of the Aspen Institute’s homeland security program. Formerly Clark was inspector general of the State Department (2001 – 2003) and of the Department of Homeland Security (2003 – 2004). Clark is a member of the Wartime Contracting Commission on Iraq and Afghanistan, and an on-air analyst and contributor at CNN.
