Events at Explore
Winter, 2009
Explore author events are nothing like book signings at big-box bookstores where the line files past the author as he or she scribbles quickly in each book, smiles and moves on to the next customer. Here you'll engage in a literary discussion with the author, ask questions, and come away with true insight into the subject. Our events are intimate, engaging, enriching. Join us and meet the nation's leading authors, scientists and social commentators -- from today's bestsellers and Pulitzer Prize winners to world leaders and renowned experts in their fields.
January 9; 6 PM: Harvard and Smithsonian astro-physicist David Aguilar talks about the night sky and his books, 11 Planets and Planets, Stars & Galaxies. Whether you're an amateur astronomer or just gaze at the night sky with wonder, David is one of his field's foremost public educators and you won't want to miss this fun, informative talk. From recognizing and understanding what's right over our heads to the latest discoveries about our universe, David delivers the big picture. (For every from ages 10 and up.)
January 24; 5:30 PM (X-Games weekend): With many of the world's top skiers gathering in Aspen, William Kerig, introduces The Edge of Never - a true story of that will inspire every skier or boarder that has ever pushed the edge a little beyond comfortable. The producer of the documentary Steep and former contributing editor to Skiing magazine, Kerig tells the story of second-generation extreme skier Kye Peterson overcoming the mountain that took his father's life.
January 30; 5:30 PM: Joseph Marshall III talks about his just-released instant hit The Power of Four: Leadership Lessons of Crazy Horse and reads from his new sensational novel, The Long Knives Are Crying. Critically-acclaimed by both scholars and literary reviewers, Marshall's fiction redefines the Western genre. And his synthesis and presentation of the life philosophy and character of leadership inherent on 19th century Lakota society, has made Marshall a high-demand speaker to corporate and government groups. Join us for a captivating of unique historical and social interest as well as insights we can apply to our own lives.
Valentines Day - an odd but true romantic fairy-tale -- 5:30 PM: Jerramy Fine discusses her hilarious memoir of a Colorado-ranch girl who grew up infatuated with British royalty and spends a decade as young woman in London determined to marry the Queen's grandson. Join Miss Fine for the true story of Someday My Prince Will Come.
March 6; 5:30 PM: Evalyn Gates (assistant director of the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, a senior research associate at the University of Chicago, and the former astronomy director of the Adler Planetarium) discusses her new book, Einstein'x Telescope: The Hunt for Dark Matter and Dark Energy in the Universe. Learn how the science of gravitational lensing--known as Einstein's Telescope--is taking researchers to the next revolution in scientific thinking -- changing forever our notions of the universe.
March 26; 6 PM: Catherine O'Connell returns to Explore with her next novel just days after its national release - Well Read and Dead. Her popular first book, Well Bred and Dead was a hit - a high-society mystery with over-the-top fun. This one with a scene set in Aspen is even better.
