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Thu, Sept 8, 7 PM  
The WIRED Speakers Series and ALOUD present
William McDonough
“The ‘Cradle to Cradle’
Design Protocol”
In conversation with
Thomas Goetz, Articles Editor, WIRED Magazine
The world-renowned sustainable architect—one of the main proponents of “The Next Industrial Revolution”— discusses ecologically, socially and economically intelligent architectural solutions.

Tue, Sept 13, 7 PM
ZÓCALO
Leonard Chang
“The Terminator,
John Updike, and
Asian Americana”
Chang, author of five novels, including a mystery trilogy featuring a Korean-American detective, discusses his role as an Asian American writer, his influences, his concerns, and his intentions.

Thu, Sept 15, 7 PM
Cynthia Ozick
Heir to the
Glimmering World
In conversation with author/critic
David L. Ulin
One of America’s most graceful literary stylists offers grand storytelling inspired by the real-life Christopher Robin.

Sun, Sept 18, 3 PM
World Festival of Sacred Music and ALOUD present
Bob Een,
The Guest House
A Concert
Performed by Robert Een and
the Mystical All-Star Band
Obie-award winning composer Robert Een and the Mystical All-Star Band—Gwen Wyatt; Sizzle Ohtaka; Yuval Ron; Mader; Billy Goodrum; M.B. Gordy—draw on diverse musical and spiritual traditions to present a musical vision of a guest house, a refuge for travelers on pilgrimage.
Tickets: $7.00 general admission;
$5.00 Library Associates and students with i.d. Cash only, payable at the door.

Thu, Sept 22, 7 PM
Jane Smiley
Thirteen Ways of
Looking at the Novel
In conversation with novelist
Marianne Wiggins
Two great writers celebrate the novel—from the 1,000 year-old Tale of Genji to Zadie Smith’s recent bestseller White Teeth; from classics to little-known gems.

Tue, Sept 27, 7 PM
Robert Pinsky
The Life of David
The former U.S. Poet Laureate fearlessly plumbs the depths of King David’s life.

Wed, Sept 28, 7 PM
Marina Goldovskaya
“Art and Life: Finding the Thread: L.A. Diary with Peter Sellars”
Screening and discussion with the filmmaker
Goldovskaya’s inquisitive lens offers an intimate glimpse into the life and art of Peter Sellars, one of the most prominent and controversial theatre, opera, and television directors in the world.
Wed, Sept 28, 7 PM
Marina Goldovskaya
Photo © GOLDFILMS
Marina Goldovskaya is one of Russia's best-known documentary filmmakers with a strong international reputation. She has made 32 films as Director, Producer, Cinematographer and Writer, and more than 100 TV programs for Russian, Austrian, French, German and American Television.

Her film "House on Arbat Street", which she made for Canal+ (France), received the Best Film of the year Award at Prix Europe in 1994, The Ester Prize in Washington, DC, and the Grand Prix at the Film Festival in Monte Carlo. "The Shattered Mirror" (ARTE, France) was honored with Prix Italia (1992), the Golden Gate Award in San Francisco (1992), the Golden Hugo in Chicago (1993)

In the USA, Marina is best known for her "Solovky Power" which was the first film revealing the horrors of the Soviet Concentration camps. In 1990, she made A Taste of Freedom for Turner Television (TNT), giving the world the first glimpses of the effects of Gorbachev's changes by relating the life of a Moscow journalist and his family.

Her most recent productions include This Shaking World, a film which takes the viewer deep into the lives of individuals representing a cross section of Southern California's Melting Pot, The Children of Ivan Kuzmich, a poetic journey into the existence of eight amazing people and their teacher of class 1941 in a Moscow School, A Poet on the Lower East Side, a remarkable visit with Allen Ginsberg, and the The Prince is Back, a very human view of today's happenings in Russia, which since its first theatrical premier and broadcast in Europe has been honored in more then twenty film festivals throughout the world, and premiered on PBS/KCET in June 2004. Her latest film Art and Life: Finding the Thread is an intimate portrait of Peter Sellars, the renowned American theater and opera director.

Marina Goldovskaya received a Ph.D. in Fine Arts in the Moscow State Film School, taught documentary filmmaking in Moscow State University from 1966 to 1995, wrote numerous articles and six books on documentary filmmaking. Her last work, A Woman with a Movie Camera, was published by Materik in 2002. She is a tenured Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Theater, Film & Television where she has organized the very popular Documentary Salon which screens high quality films on a monthly basis.

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