January Salons

Reservations required for all salons.

Spaces for some salons are limited and reservations will be
accepted in order of receipt. If you cannot honor
a reservation please call to cancel.

Bring chair to salon when noted (chair).

 

5th Thursday 7PM The Salon (chair)
Arizona Politics

Mary Jo Pitzl, legislature reporter for The Arizona Republic, will discuss the current issues and challenges of Arizona politics.

http://www.azcentral.com/

7th Saturday 10:30AM The Salon
Angela Ellsworth Exhibition
$10 for non museum members

Artist Angela Ellsworth will discuss her exhibition at The Phoenix Art Museum ‘Seeing is Believing: Rebecca Campbell and Angela Ellsworth’. Multilayered and complex, their works touch on memory and nostalgia but are grounded in the present and the reinterpretation of their experiences as well as Mormon traditions and practices. The exhibition includes painting, sculpture and installations.

http://www.aellsworth.com/

http://www.phxart.org/

9th Monday 7PM The Salon (chair)
The Border Issues:
Canada, U.S., Mexico

Rick Van Schoik, director of North American Center for Transborder Studies at ASU, will discuss current political and policy issues of the American border.

http://nacts.asu.edu/partners/bios/nacts-staff/mr-d-rick-van-schoik

11th Wednesday 7PM The Salon (chair)
The European Union
arrive for parking between 6:45pm - 7pm

Gary Grossman, PhD, Faculty Chair of the Global Technology and Development (GTD) program and a professor in the School of Letters and Sciences, ASU, will discuss political, economic and social issues of the European Union.

https://webapp4.asu.edu/directory/person/38013

12th Thursday 7PM The Salon
An Evening at Nova Ballet

An evening with Novaballet, will include founder and head ‘instigator’, Douglas Pasley, discussing the trials, tribulations and rewards of developing a new performing arts organization for the 21st century.  Video excerpts of past performances, new film works and a special piece by two of Novaballet’s dance artists will give you a look into the future of the performing arts.

http://novaballet.com/

17th Tuesday 7PM The Salon (chair)
A Universe From Nothing

Lawrence Krauss, PhD, an internationally known theoretical physicist, bestselling author, frequent editorialist, lecturer, and director of ASU Origins Project, will discuss his new book ‘A Universe From Nothing : Why There is Something Rather Than Nothing’.

http://krauss.faculty.asu.edu/

http://www.amazon.com/Universe-Nothing-There-Something-Rather/dp/145162445X

Thursday 7PM The Salon
Arvel Bird - Fiddle-icious

International award-winning Celtic Fusion recording artist, Arvel Bird, a violinist and Native American flutist, is known around the world for his dramatic connection between Celtic and Native American traditions, stirring up scenes that echo from North American memory.  Dubbed “Lord of the Strings” by fans and music critics, his music evokes the soul of North American history and is thoroughly entertaining, but also enlightening and humanizing. 

In addition to selections from some of his best selling CDs, Arvel will be debuting music from his upcoming release: Titanic Centennial: Commemorative Special Edition, a collector’s album celebrating the enduring spirit of the passengers and crew on the Titanic.

http://arvelbird.com/

21st Saturday 7PM The Salon (chair)
Playing with the Symmetry of Time:
Axions and Time Crystals

Frank Wilczek, PhD, a Nobel Prize winning theoretical physicist from M.I.T., and author of ‘The Lightness of Being’, will discuss scientific concepts about time.

http://web.mit.edu/physics/people/faculty/wilczek_frank.html

http://www.lightnessofbeingbook.com/

23rd Monday 7PM The Salon (chair)
Psychology of Birth

Psychotherapist Candace Rosen will join psychotherapist Barbara Findeisen, clinical director of The Star Foundation, a retreat for healing and personal growth, will discuss their insights into prenatal and perinatal psychology of birth, the study of the psychological impact of birth.

http://www.starfound.org/

25th Wednesday 7:15PM The Salon
The Sustainability of Phoenix

Grady Gammage, Jr, an attorney, author, academic, and developer, will join Bruce Rittmann, PhD, director of Environmental Biotechnology at The Biodesign Institute, ASU, and Sandy Bahr, director of the Grand Canyon Chapter of The Sierra Club, to discuss issues of the sustainability of the Phoenix metropolitan area.

http://www.biodesign.asu.edu/people/bruce-rittmann

http://www.gblaw.com/attorney.asp?AttorneyID=17

http://arizona.sierraclub.org/index.asp

27th Friday 7PM The Salon (chair)
Arab Spring Update

Abdullahi Gallub, PhD, a professor at the School of Social Transformation, ASU, whose research is Islamist movements in North Africa and The Middle East, will discuss current political and social developments and progress of The Arab Spring.

https://webapp4.asu.edu/directory/person/855686

http://www.upf.com/book.asp?id=GALLA001

http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calcTitle=1&title_id=9898&edition_id=10676

28th Saturday 11AM The Salon
Architecture of Brian and Melissa Farling

Architects Brian and Melissa Farling will discuss and tour their remodeled and redesigned 1950’s ranch home they transformed into a dramatic contemporary space using inexpensive construction materials and implementing their design philosophy that quality of a space is more important than quantity.