Events/Things To Do

On Thursday, February 27, Eric Schmidt, the Executive Chairman and former CEO of Google, and Jared Cohen, director of Google Ideas discuss their New York Times bestselling book, The New Digital Age: Transforming Nations, Business and Our Lives, in a talk that coincides with the book’s paperback release. With billions of people coming online in the next decade, the book tackles some of the most interesting questions about our future: how will technology change privacy and security, war and intervention, diplomacy, revolution and terrorism? How will technology improve our lives? What new disruptions can we expect?

Billions of people are coming online in the next decade. Their physical lives, human rights, and civic relationships will be forever altered. Technology is reshaping human society in ways we never imagined, and the story for the future is one of promise and innovation.

In the paperback release of the New York Timesbestseller The New Digital Age: Transforming Nations, Business and Our Lives, Eric Schmidt, theExecutive Chairman and former CEO of Google, and Jared Cohen, director of Google Ideas, tackle some of the most interesting questions about our future: how will technology change privacy and security, war and intervention, diplomacy, revolution and terrorism? How will technology improve our lives? What new disruptions can we expect?

On the heels of months of news stories about online privacy and security, The New Digital Age is a timely and forward-thinking account of where our world is headed and what this means for people, states and businesses.

In conversation with Alec Ross, one of America’s leading experts on innovation, a Senior Fellow at Columbia University’s School of International & Public Affairs, and former Senior Advisor for Innovation to then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Then, on Wednesday, April 2, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone shares stories on the power of creativity and how to harness it in Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of a Creative Mind. Reflecting on his path to Google, Twitter and beyond, Biz (who also can add GQ’s “Nerd of the Year” and one of TIME magazine’s “Most Influential People” to his résumé) also provides his insights on ambition, failure, corporate culture, and the value of vulnerability. Most recently, Biz is founder and CEO of his newest venture, Jelly.

In Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of a Creative Mind, he shares fascinating, pivotal, and personal stories on the power of creativity and how to harness it. Biz’s early life and unique resume embody the mindset of today’s top innovators. He knows better than anyone that:

• Opportunity can be manufactured
• Great work comes from abandoning a linear way of thinking
• Creativity never runs out
• Asking questions is free
• Empathy is core to personal and global success

Admission:

1 ticket: $20
1 ticket + 1 book: $30
2 tickets + 1 book: $40

How to Purchase:

Online or by phone (877.987.6487 with a $1.50 fee per ticket). Additional fees apply.

Seating:

General Admission

The District of Columbia and Centric Invite you to a Celebration of Freedom in the Nation’s Capital

152^nd Anniversary of DC Emancipation Day

The celebrations occur at multiple times on Wednesday, April 16^th at 11:00am with a festive parade down Pennsylvania Avenue NW boasting more than 40 participating groups, including numerous DC high school and college marching bands, the U.S. Army Fife and Drum Corp and Color Guard, The 54^th Voluntary Infantry Regiment, the UniverSOUL Circus, various MPDC Units, neighborhood groups and associations, and much more. Enjoy food and merchandise vendors all throughout the day.

From 1:30pm and again at 2:45pm, visit the Open House at the John A. Wilson Building (near the Parade end route at 1350 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC) for educational workshops with Mark Plotkin, Hon. Frank Smith, Peter Hanes, and Dr. Elizabeth Clark Lewis, Ph.D.  The official DC Emancipation Day Concert, “Message in the Music” will begin at 4pm at Freedom Plaza and feature Brian Lenair (4pm to 5pm), followed by performances by Talib Kweli, Raheem DeVaughn, Arrested Development, MC Lyte, Doug E Fresh and more.  The full day of celebrations will end with an impressive Fireworks Finale over Freedom Plaza, beginning at 8:30pm. Get details below, as well as at www.emancipationdc.com.  All Emancipation Day DC events are free and open to the public!

The staff at Carpenter’s Shelter is excited to announce the date for the 12^th annual Carpenter’s Cook-Off. Every year, Carpenter’s Shelter brings together 30 of the area’s best restaurants and chefs for a culinary event in order to raise money to support the shelter operations.

Please join us April 27^th at The Birchmere Music Hall (3701 Mount Vernon Ave) from12-3pm for this year’s Carpenter’s Cook-Off. Tickets are now on sale! Visitwww.carpenterscookoff.com today to purchase tickets for the whole family. Last year, the event sold out early. Don’t miss your chance to attend this year. Tickets are $50 for adults and $15 for children 12 and under. Limited quantities of VIP tickets are available for $65 until sold out. All VIP ticket holders will receive a special ‘Swag Bag’ gift.

YPFP’s annual Affairs of State Gala is DC’s premier event for young professionals working in international relations and foreign affairs. We’ll be celebrating ten years of YPFP’s history with a two-hour open bar, whiskey tastings, music, and more!

What: Affairs of State Gala

When: Saturday, September 6, 2014 at 8:00pm

Where: National Press Club

Notes: tickets available now (age 21+ only)

Advanced Tickets (before Aug. 31) – $55

Last Minute Tickets (Sept. 1-5) – $65

At the Door – $75

The Smithsonian National Museum of American History‘s Raise a Glass Star-Spangled Banner Gala Event will be held September 12, 2014 at 8:00 p.m. This cocktail showcase honoring the Star Spangled Banner will support the American Food History Project at the National Museum of American History. The event will be emceed by Simon Majumdar from the Food Network and feature music by the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Quartet. Guests will learn how to mix their own cocktails at home, participate in mixology demonstrations, hear from cocktail historian David Wondrich, and see collections objects out of storage. 

Seinfeld writer Peter Mehlman’s will launch his debut novel at Kramer Books & Afterwords in D.C. on September 23, 6:30 pm in K Street Magazine. Known for most memorableSeinfeld-isms like “Yada Yada”, “sponge-worthy” and “double-dipping”, he is a graduate of the University of Maryland and wrote for theWashington Post before his engagement on Seinfeld throughout which he continued to write for top publications, including New York TimesMagazine, Huffington Post, Los Angeles Times, Esquire as well as contributing to NPR’s “Day to Day” and “All Things Considered”.

It Won’t Always Be This Great is a literary debut that perfectly captures Peter’s satirical genius in a uniquely conceived crime story, set in East Coast suburbia, that offers timely social commentary about religion, marriage, and the politics of life. Distinguished advance praise includes: 

“Anyone who writes for television gets frustrated that they can’t write like Peter Mehlman. Now he’s going to make novelists mad too. Mehlman’s writing style is completely unique, and creates an intimate bond between the narrator and the reader. You finish the book feeling as though you’ve made a new friend.” ––Academy award winning writer Aaron Sorkin (A Few Good Men, The Social Network)

“Peter Mehlman wrote a brilliantly funny, effortlessly insightful and unexpectedly moving book.” ––Academy award winning writer/directorSteven Soderbergh (Ocean’s Eleven, Erin Brockovich, Traffic)

“Peter has an uncanny knack for pin-pointing the absurdities of our petty bourgeoisie. Funny and astute and disarmingly humane.” ―Madeleine Brand,  American broadcast journalist and radio personality

For more on Peter Mehlman, please visit: www.pmehlman.com.

PETER THIEL

Tuesday, September 23 at 7:00 pm
In Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future, the co-founder of PayPal draws on his experience investing in hundreds of start-ups and shares what he has learned about how to build companies that create new things.

with Politics & Prose