We asked our 2017 speakers for suggestions on follow-up reading, listening or viewing, as well as for some concrete steps people could take if they care about the various issues that came up in their on-stage conversations. Here they are — enjoy! LISA ALIFERIS Senior Communications Officer, California Health Care Foundation Was in conversation with…
SF Weekly, Oct. 23, 2017 Founder Lance Knobel and co-curator Helena Brantley note dryly that organizers for similar events simply Google “most interesting speakers for your festival.” Christian Picciolini, the founder of peace advocacy group Life After Hate, on his former life as a white supremacist. Author Mychal Denzel Smith on Black masculinity. Rick Wilson,…
J-WEEKLY / 10.18.17 / By Maya Mirsky — In Berkeley this month, a former neo-Nazi will stand up to warn people that that the bigots in the headlines of today are essentially the skinheads of yesterday — with the same message and the same hope for a violent future. “We need to stop calling it…
EAST BAY TIMES / By Marta Yamamoto —The fifth year of Uncharted, the Berkeley Festival of Ideas, on Oct. 27 and 28 at Berkeley Repertory Theater and Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse, will have a new co-curator and new conversations that promise to live up to the slogan “Unscripted, Unpredictable, Uncharted.” The festival, founded in 2013 by…
BERKELEY — Uncharted: The Berkeley Festival of Ideas returns to Berkeley for its fifth year, Oct. 27-28. Festival events will take place at the Berkeley Repertory Theater and at the Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse in downtown Berkeley, from 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. both days. The Bay Area’s first ideas festival presents leading thinkers who…
