On May 19-21, 2017 we held our three-day Hope Festival at the Bootleg Theater in Los Angeles, CA. In addition to engaging talks and panel discussions, the festival featured the west coast premiere of our Hope on Stage winning play "I Carry Your Heart" by Georgette Kelly.

Schedule

FRIDAY, MAY 19th

3 - 4:30 | PANEL – THE PSYCHOLOGY OF HOPE (Empirical Research Presentations): Michael Scheier, Eshkol Rafaeli, Lori Markson (Moderator: Samuel Newlands)

4:45 - 6 | KEYNOTE - Tali Sharot, neuroscientist and author of The Optimism Bias 

7 - 9 | PERFORMANCE - “I Carry Your Heart” by Georgette Kelly 

9:30 | LIVE MUSIC BY THE BAR with Matthew Logan Vasquez of Delta Spirit 

SATURDAY, MAY 20th

11 - 12:15 | TALK - Yiyun Li (University of California, Davis): “The Small Why and the Big Why: Under the Supervision of Memory” 

1:45 - 3:15 | PANEL – THE PHILOSOPHY OF HOPE (Conceptual Research Presentations): Luc Bovens, Nicole Hassoun, Andre C. Willis (Moderator: Andrew Chignell) 

3:30 - 4:45 | TALK - Sabra Williams (Actress and Creator of The Prison Project): “Hope In Darkness - The Actors’ Gang Prison Project” 

5 - 6:15 | KEYNOTE - Dr. Cornel West (Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy, Harvard University and Professor Emeritus, Princeton University): “Justice Matters - What Love Looks Like in Public”

7 - 9 | PERFORMANCE - “I Carry Your Heart” followed by talkback with playwright, director, actors 

9:30 | LIVE MUSIC BY THE BAR with Tyler Cole & Willow 

SUNDAY, MAY 21st

10 - 12:00 | READING – “How To Conquer The World: A Brief History Of Yogurt,” followed by talkback with playwright David Myers 

1:30 - 3 | READING – “The Body,” followed by talkback with playwright Steve Moulds 

3 - 3:30 | SCREENING – Winning shorts from Hope on Screen video competition, conversation with grand prize winner Keaton Davis 

3:45 - 5 | TALK - David Eagleman (Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine):  neuroscientist and host of The Brain on PBS 

5:15 - 6:30 | READING - T. C. Boyle (Distinguished Professor of English, University of Southern California): “Are We Not Men?” followed by Q&A with the author 

7 - 9 | PERFORMANCE - “I Carry Your Heart” by Georgette Kelly 

9:30 | LIVE MUSIC BY THE BAR with Orkestar Meze and Daniel Rotem 

More on the Hope Festival at Broadway World.