I’m thrilled to announce that footage from A Life’s Work will be used at this year’s World Science Festival (June 2-6)! The WSF was founded by Brian Greene (The Elegant Universe) and Emmy award-winning journalist Tracy Day. It’s mission:
… to cultivate and sustain a general public informed by the content of science, inspired by its wonder, convinced of its value, and prepared to engage with its implications for the future.
The World Science Festival, an unprecedented annual tribute to imagination, ingenuity and inventiveness, takes science out of the laboratory and into the streets, theaters, museums, and public halls of New York City, making the esoteric understandable and the familiar fascinating.
The events are spectacular, and some are free. There’s something for everyone and you don’t even need to be a science geek. Perhaps you’re interested in seeing Alan Alda moderate a discussion about consciousness between filmmaker Charlie Kaufman and neuroscientist Giulio Tononi. Interested in how human perception affects the creation of art? Maybe that will be discussed when Chuck Close and Oliver Saks “share their experiences of living with a curious condition known as ‘face blindness,’ or prosopagnosia.” Perhaps you’re someone who likes feats of storytelling daring. Then the The Moth: Gray Matter is for you, as esteemed scientists spin their 10-minute, true stories about their lives in science at Webster Hall. There’s dance, there’s a free star-gazing event… oh, just go to the link and see for yourself. It’s really amazing.
And if you go to Cool Jobs on June 5th, you’ll get to see the SETI Institute’s Jill Tarter talk about the rewards of doing what she does, and you’ll get to see a bit of A Life’s Work footage. And that person sitting with his mouth agape in the back? That’ll be me. Stop by and say hi.
Thanks to Nicole London, Jessica Bari, and Greg Boustead at the World Science Festival.