The UCLA Art & Global Health Center, founded by David Gere two decades ago, believes that the arts can indeed save lives. Not through magic. But by shifting the conditions that cause illness to flourish. In this talk, Gere lays out some of the ways that the arts can change the world.
Sun Valley Film Festival • Silver Linings Playbook
In honor of this year’s Vision Award Honoree, David O. Russell, we are excited to share a special screening of his eight-time Oscar nominated critically acclaimed film, Silver Linings Playbook.
Sun Valley Music Festival • Winter Season
The Sun Valley Music Festival presents its sixth Winter Season from March 6 to 9. The 2024 Winter Season focuses on “The Romance of Brahms” and offers two chamber music programs specially curated by Music Director Alasdair Neale, featuring pianist Jon Kimura Parker — winner of the Gold Medal at the 1984 Leeds International Piano Competition — and string musicians from the all-star Sun Valley Music Festival Orchestra.
Sun Valley Music Festival • Winter Season
The Sun Valley Music Festival presents its sixth Winter Season from March 6 to 9. The 2024 Winter Season focuses on “The Romance of Brahms” and offers two chamber music programs specially curated by Music Director Alasdair Neale, featuring pianist Jon Kimura Parker — winner of the Gold Medal at the 1984 Leeds International Piano Competition — and string musicians from the all-star Sun Valley Music Festival Orchestra.
Sun Valley Music Festival • Winter Season
The Sun Valley Music Festival presents its sixth Winter Season from March 6 to 9. The 2024 Winter Season focuses on “The Romance of Brahms” and offers two chamber music programs specially curated by Music Director Alasdair Neale, featuring pianist Jon Kimura Parker — winner of the Gold Medal at the 1984 Leeds International Piano Competition — and string musicians from the all-star Sun Valley Music Festival Orchestra.
Sun Valley Music Festival • Winter Season
The Sun Valley Music Festival presents its sixth Winter Season from March 6 to 9. The 2024 Winter Season focuses on “The Romance of Brahms” and offers two chamber music programs specially curated by Music Director Alasdair Neale, featuring pianist Jon Kimura Parker — winner of the Gold Medal at the 1984 Leeds International Piano Competition — and string musicians from the all-star Sun Valley Music Festival Orchestra.
Sun Valley Policy Forum Presents
Professor Jonathan Turley is a nationally recognized constitutional legal scholar whose articles on legal and policy issues appear regularly in the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Los Angeles Times and Wall Street Journal. Professor Turley also appears regularly as a legal expert on major television networks. He is on-air Legal Analyst and a repeated guest on Sunday talk shows on Meet the Press, ABC This Week, Face the Nation, and Fox Sunday. Professor Turley has taught courses on constitutional law, constitutional criminal law, environmental law, litigation, and torts.
Freddy & Francine
Freddy & Francine are husband and wife singer-songwriters, but don’t call what they do folk music. It’s too energetic. Bianca Caruso, aka Francine, says, “We’re performers. We’re not just folk musicians who play and sing mellow songs with little voices … there’s screaming.” And don’t call it Americana, either. They don’t wear hats. Besides, Caruso says, “The minute you think one of our songs is an Americana song, it can turn into a retro pop song.” Freddy & Francine have played Telluride Bluegrass, and opened for JJ Grey and Mofro, and Big Head Todd & the Monsters.
Brett Dennen
Brett Dennen’s endearing and adventurous Lift Series is back this winter. The concerts will be intimate solo acoustic sets of songs and stories that are sure to be heartwarming and funny. Brett Dennen is a nationally known, beloved singer-songwriter who has played at Austin City Limits, Newport Folk, and Telluride Bluegrass Festivals and appeared on Jimmy Kimmel, David Letterman, and Conan O’Brien. His songs are carefully crafted, beautiful and often exhibit a wry sense of humor.
Laura Cortese & The Dance Cards
Laura Cortese & the Dance Cards have a vision for their band’s sound: bold and elegant, schooled in the lyrical rituals of folk music and backed by grooves that alternately inspire Cajun two-stepping and rock-n-roll hip swagger. Performing as a trio with Valerie Thompson on cello and Isa Burke on guitar/fiddle (known for her work with Lula Wiles and Aoife O’Donovan), these women produce music centered on the virtuosic string instrumentation of its members tied together by driving rhythms, broad creative vision, and resonant harmonies.