On Friday, Oct. 24, and Saturday, Oct. 25, the second edition of Uncharted: The Berkeley Festival of Ideas will throw open its doors in downtown Berkeley. It’s going to be a an extraordinary two days of conversations on food, technology, arts, innovation, society, environment, politics, and much, much more. Berkeleyside is producing Uncharted and is committed to…
The 2014 Uncharted Festival of Ideas is just 15 days away! To count things down, we’re sharing some testimonials from attendees from last year’s inaugural Festival. “Thank you so much for all your hard-work, preparations and for creating an intellectual forum for folks in the East Bay. No doubt like many professionals, I tend to…
By now you’ve heard of Alice Waters, the Slow Food movement and Meatless Mondays. But even hardcore Bay Area foodies may not know about the following individuals who are about to radically change the way we think about and eat food. At this year’s Uncharted: The Berkeley Festival of Ideas, meet and hear from Saru Jayaraman, Douglas…
“[Uncharted] is a way to cement and celebrate this incredible crucible of ideas on the edge, not just in science and technology, but social innovation, political thinking. This is a celebration for a real world center of ideas.” – Lance Knobel Watch Lance Knobel, the curator and founder of Uncharted, on KPIX’s Bay Sunday as…
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The initial Uncharted 2014 line-up is announced today and tickets are on sale. Attendees will join conversations with such luminaries as Nobel laureate Randy Schekman, composer John Adams, food poverty campaigner Saru Jayaraman, aging expert Laura Carstensen, Go the Fuck to Sleep author Adam Mansbach, and marriage equality pioneers Kris Perry and Sandy Stier. See the…
We’ve condensed the two days of the inaugural Uncharted to little more than a minute. We hope it gives you a small flavor of the event.
Over two days, participants at Uncharted: The Berkeley Festival of Ideas heard from three dozen speakers in 25 different conversations, took part in four Uncharted Lab workshops, enjoyed a jazz trio and a theremin during coffee breaks, and danced (well, some of them) to Cuban salsa at the party.
“Silicon Valley has made a name for itself as the birthplace of some pretty big ideas. But if Lance Knobel has his way, people will soon be thinking of Berkeley as a comparable hub of innovation — albeit, seeing as it’s Berkeley, a hub with an open-minded, free-thinking spirit all its own.” So goes the opening…
Uncharted the new SXSW of Berkeley? That’s what PandoDaily suggests in an article published on Oct. 21. Describing Uncharted as “the new tech anti-conference,” writer Carmel DeAmicis says Uncharted: The Berkeley Festival of Ideas, in the manner of the mega music and tech South By South West festival could start small and “eventually [become] a definitive place for exchanging ideas…
