creativity
Art + Invention Speaker Series (5):
Laurie Anderson
Laurie Anderson with Mark Gonnerman
Tuesday, May 4, 2010 | 7:30pm | Pigott Theater | Free and Open to All. Limited seating: arrive early.
Art + Invention Speaker Series (4):
Ann Carlson and Mary Ellen Strom
Ann Carlson and Mary Ellen Strom with Mark Gonnerman
Thursday, April 8, 2010 | 7:30pm | Cubberley Auditorium | Free and Open to All
Art + Invention Speaker Series (2):
Steve Reich and Beryl Korot
Steve Reich and Beryl Korot with Vered Shemtov and Mark Gonnerman
Thursday, January 7, 2010 | 7:30pm | Pigott Theater | Free and Open to All. Limited seating: arrive early.
Presented with the Taube Center for Jewish Studies.
The Aurora Forum, Stanford Lively Arts, and the Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts (SiCa) Present:
Art + Invention Speaker Series (1): An Evening with Ralph Lemon
Ralph Lemon and Peggy Phelan with Mark Gonnerman
Thursday, December 3, 2009 | 7:30pm | Pigott Theater | Free and Open to All. Limited seating: arrive early.

Ralph Lemon, choreographer and cross-disciplinary performer and artist, inaugurates the Art + Invention Speaker Series,
which engages iconic artists in
thought-provoking conversations about creativity, innovation and
discovery across the disciplines. This conversation will introduce Lemon’s rich portfolio and focus on his Geography Trilogy, the fruit of a 9-year investigation through travel that followed the artist’s decision to disband his postmodern dance company and search for a new relationship to his work. Lemon is the fall artist-in-residence
at the Stanford Institute for Diversity in the Arts.
Presented in collaboration with the Institute for Diversity in the
Arts (IDA), SiCa,
and the Dance Division, Department of Drama.
Tuesday, 27 January, 2009
Creative Couples
When we think of creative couples, we may remember Marie and Pierre Curie, Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, Edward and Charis Weston, Lou Harrison and Bill Colvig, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Laurie Anderson and Lou Reed, Paul Auster and Siri Hustvedt. Of course there are countless other, less celebrated couples whose names also stimulate thinking about ways in which partnership may influence human flourishing and creative work. In this series, we are interested in better understanding how creative insights arise from risk taking and the open-ended possibilities that are nurtured by intimacy. The series begins on January 29 with Irvin and Marilyn Yalom.
Creative Couples Series:
Irvin and Marilyn Yalom
Irvin Yalom and Marilyn Yalom with Mark Gonnerman
Thursday, January 29, 2009 | 7:30 – 9:00pm | Kresge Auditorium | Free and Open to All
In the course of over fifty years of married life and raising four children, Irvin and Marilyn Yalom have made marks in their respective fields of psychotherapy and women’s studies with contributions through teaching and research leading to the publication of academic papers and popular books. Last year, they each presented their own research into death: Irv’s Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death and Marilyn’s The American Resting Place: Four Hundred Years of History Through our Cemeteries and Burial Grounds. Our conversation will begin with the Yaloms’ poignant explorations of human finitude and then turn to the story of their time together as a dual-career academic couple.
Related Themes: books, couples, creativity, death
Director's Notes
Wednesday, 22 July, 2009
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