Sept. 23-26
www.ideafestival.com
Highlights:
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 23
•Festival of the Written Word
9 a.m.-7 p.m. @ Spalding University, Actors Theatre and KMAC
Features morning workshops followed by author readings, luncheon and a reception where authors will mingle and do book signings.
•IF 2.0
10 a.m.-noon (Sept. 24-26 7:45-8:30 a.m.) @ Kentucky Center
Features Nat Irvin II, Kris Kimel and Phil Kraemer.
•IF Opening/The Intelligent Optimist
2-3:15 p.m. @ Kentucky Center
Features Jurriaan Kamp, creator of Ode, an international magazine devoted to positive news.
•FORGE ... Africa
3:45-4:45 p.m. @ Kentucky Center
Features Kjerstin Erickson, founder of FORGE.
•Connected: A stream-of-consciousness ride ...
3:45-4:45 p.m. @ Muhammad Ali Center
The film takes audiences on a stream-of-consciousness ride through the interconnectedness of humankind, nature, progress and morality at the dawn of the 21st century.
•Money for Nothing
8-9 p.m. @ Kentucky Center
Independent documentary filmmaker and University of Iowa media studies scholar Kembrew McLeod presents a work-in-progress screening of “Copyright Criminals: This is a Sampling Sport.”
THURSDAY, SEPT. 24
•‘Talking Back’ Featured Shoot
8 a.m.-8 p.m. @ 21c Museum Hotel
“Talking Back” aims to elucidate the dynamics of personal expression across the landscape of pop culture in America with a look at the T-shirt culture. Photographer Leslie Lyons’s subjects are real people in their real T-shirts.
•The Superorganism
8:45-9:45 a.m. @ Kentucky Center
Pulitzer Prize-winning author and scientist Bert Hoelldobler discusses the mystery, complexity and beauty of societies of social insects.
•Life ... Consciousness and the Nature of the Universe
10:15-11:15 a.m. @ Kentucky Center
In his recent book “Biocentrism,” noted astronomer and author Robert Berman offers a revolutionary new world view that suggests “life creates the universe instead of the other way around.”
•Back To The Garage (lunch event)
11:45 a.m.-1:05 p.m. @ Galt House
Features Wired Magazine senior writer Daniel Roth.
•Lessons of Climates Past
1:30-2:30 p.m. @ Kentucky Center
Featuring British geologist Chris Turney.
•The Know-It-All: A.J. Jacobs
3-4 p.m. @ Kentucky Center
•Ahn Trio
8-9:30 p.m. @ Kentucky Center
FRIDAY, SEPT. 25
•All About You … The New Genomics and the Nature of Being Human
8:45-9:45 a.m. @ Kentucky Center
Featuring Moira Gunn, host of NPR’s “Tech Nation” and author of “BioTech Nation.”
•Progressive Realities
10:15-11:15 a.m. @ Kentucky Center
Netherlands-based artist Daan Roosegaarde’s work explores the relationship between architecture, people and e-culture.
•Marc Yu
1:30-2:30 p.m. @ Kentucky Center
10-year-old Marc Yu started playing the piano at age 3 and the cello at age 4.
•The Power of Humor
3-4 p.m. @ Kentucky Center
Features John McPherson, the award-winning cartoonist, author and creator of the popular comic panel “Close to Home.”
•Abundance Farming
4:30-5:30 p.m. @ Kentucky Center
Features Paul Osterlund, founder of Abundance Farming Project.
•wHY
4:30-5:30 p.m. @ Kentucky Center
Features Kulapat Yantrasast, co-founder of wHY Architects.
•Anthony Bourdain
8 -9:30 p.m. @ Kentucky Center
SATURDAY, SEPT. 26
•Growing Power
8:45-9:45 a.m. @ Kentucky Center
Features Will Allen, an urban farmer whose ideas and work have dramatically influenced the cultivation, production and delivery of healthy food.
•Shakespeare … Still
10:15-11:15 a.m. @ Kentucky Center
Features Marjorie Garber, a Harvard-based Shakespeare scholar and author.
•A Journal for Jordan
1:30-2:30 p.m. @ Kentucky Center
Features Dana Canedy, senior editor at the New York Times and author of “A Journal for Jordan.”
•Naomi Tutu
3-4 p.m. @ Kentucky Center
Features Naomi Tutu, daughter of Desmond Tutu and tireless advocate for human rights and social justice.
•Mr. Jefferson and the Giant Moose
4:30-5:30 p.m. @ Kentucky Center
Biologist and author Lee Dugatkin relates a fascinating story involving both natural history and American history.
•East Market NuLu Festival
5-11 p.m. @ 600-700 blocks of East Market
•The Mind and Music of Tchaikovsky
8-9:30 p.m. @ Kentucky Center
Features distinguished psychiatrist and virtuoso concert pianist Dr. Richard Kogan.
DAILY EVENTS
•Artist Julian Beever
@ Kentucky Center
Julian Beever is a Belgium-based artist who designs and creates amazing 3-D pavement chalk drawings. He will be working throughout IF on the sidewalk in front of the Kentucky Center.
•Dune 4.0 w/ Daan Roosegarde
@Main Street between Sixth & Seventh (Sept. 23-Oct. 20)
Dune 4.0 is an interactive landscape that reacts to the behavior of people. This hybrid of nature and technology exists out of large amounts of fibers that are brightened according to the sounds and motion of passing visitors.
