Maplewood Ideas Festival 2022

Starts tonight!  Nice lineup:

https://www.maplewoodlibrary.org/ideas-festival

Most are at the Woodland, but looks like they're livestreamed as well.

Ideas Festival 2022: Theater Panel: Managing Creatively During the Pandemic

  • Monday, April 18, 2022
  • 7:00 PM 8:30 PM
  • The Woodland (map)

Actors Sandy Rustin, Becky Gulsvig and Sara Farrington will talk about what kept their creativity and enthusiasm for their craft alive during the pandemic.
Sandy Rustin is an actress and award-winning playwright. She lives in Maplewood and is the Founding Co-Artistic Director of Midtown Direct Rep. Her adaptation of the cult-hit film, Clue, recently finished a successful run at The Papermill Playhouse.
Becky Gulsvig is a singer, actor and dancer. She lives in Maplewood and has performed on and Off-Broadway, on TV and in commercials. Her most recent role was as Beverly in the national tour of Come From Away.
Sara Farrington is a playwright and co-founder of the Foxy Films theater company. She and Foxy Films have been critically acclaimed in the New York Times, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, The Village Voice and many more.Recent work includes Mendacity and BrandoCapote. Sara lives in Maplewood with her husband Reid and sons Jack and Levi.


Ideas Festival 2022: Tim Hwang

  • Tuesday, April 26, 2022
  • 7:00 PM 8:00 PM
  • The Woodland (map)

Silicon Valley and the Future of Innovation

Over the last decade, Silicon Valley's "move fast and break things" innovation ethos has come under increasing fire as the broader social impact of companies like Facebook and Amazon have become more widely debated. How can and should technological innovation look as we enter the 2020s? This session will explore the past and present of innovation. In doing so, we'll explore the concept of "innovation" itself, and how it came to play such a central role in debates about the economy and technology.

Tim Hwang is a writer and researcher, currently the general counsel at Substack. He lives in Maplewood, and is the author of Subprime Attention Crisis, a book about the online advertising bubble. He’s a research fellow at the Center for Security and Emerging Technology, is on the board of the tech nonprofit Meedan, and is an investor in Temescal Brewing.

Hwang will be in conversation with Jon Gertner, fellow Maplewoodian and author of The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation and The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey Into Greenland’s Buried Past and Our Perilous Future. Gertner is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and The Washington Post.


I wish they were both live and live-streamed. But I understand how complicated that is for the hosts/organizers. 


Looks like tonight's will be:

Wednesday, April 27
7:00 pm in person at the Woodland

and livestreamed on our Youtube channel.

Maplewoodian Nancy Solomon is a Senior Reporter for WNYC and founding editor of New Jersey Public Radio, which won a 2014 Peabody Award for Chris Christie, White House Ambitions and the Abuse of Power. Her podcast Dead End, a New Jersey Political Mystery is just out.

Nancy will be receiving the Carol Buchanan Award for Outstanding Contribution to Civic and Intellectual Life. She'll be in conversation with Deborah Goldstein


I tried. Just went to your link, which I was so excited to learn about, but it’s recorded past lectures. Maybe after tonight, the Nancy Solomon event will be available, though!



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