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Tickets: $25, $15 Paley Center Members and Students unless otherwise noted
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Event Location
All events listed take place at The Paley Center for Media in New York, 25 West 52 Street, New York, NY, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.
Ticket Policies
Events and participants are subject to change without notice. No refunds or exchanges. Four-ticket limit per person, per event. All seating is general admission; no reserved seating. Premium seating for Producers Circle Members at Producers Circle events only.
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To Order Tickets (Members, please have your ID number ready.)
· Online: At paleycenter.org beginning March 5 at noon for Members. See above for all ticket dates. Service charges will apply.
· By Phone: Call 212.621.6600, Dial "0" for operator; Mon to Fri, 12:00 to 5:00 pm. Service charges will apply.
· In Person: Tickets for all events are available at the front desk, Tues to Sun, 12:00 to 6:00 pm; Thurs to 8:00 pm.
Online ticketing closes two hours before a scheduled event. Tickets may still be purchased in person up until the time of the event. |
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NEW EVENT
Sex: The Revolution
Tuesday, May 6, 2008; 6:00 to 8:30 pm
Tickets
Members/Students: $15, general public: $20
From Kinsey and the Pill to Plato's Retreat and AIDS, this freshly smart documentary series from filmmakers Hart Perry and Richard Lowe explores the sexual revolution and its legacy that continues to rock contemporary society. Produced by Perry Films in association with VH1 and the Sundance Channel, the program entertainingly weaves together rare and classic clips with iconic music, invigorated by provocative interviews with those people who lived the upheaval in values. The screening of parts two and three (88 minutes) will be followed by a discussion about how postwar sexual mores altered American culture forever.
In Person: Erica Jong, Author, Fear of Flying; Legs McNeil, Author, The Other Hollywood: The Uncensored Oral History of the Porn Film Industry; Hart Perry, Producer/Director; Nile Rodgers, Musician/Music Producer/Cofounder, Chic; Others to be announced.
Moderator: Martin Torgoff, Author, Can't Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age
PHOTO CREDIT: Courtesy of VH1
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A Sundance Channel Exclusive Series
On the Road in America
Wednesday, May 28, 2008; 6:00 to 7:30 pm
This 13-part series follows three students from the Arabic world, as well as an outspoken Palestinian production assistant and an Israeli cameraman, as they travel cross-country interacting with Americans in hopes of coming to understand one another. Episodes will be screened and the journey's participants will discuss what they learned about the U.S. during their trek.
In Person:
Lara Abou Saifan and Ali Amr, Cast Members
Ambassador Richard Fairbanks, Layalina Productions
Jerome Gary, Creator
Laura Michalchyshyn, Sundance Channel
PHOTO CREDIT: Leon Shahabian/Layalina Productions
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American Premiere
Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives
With Mark Everett
Thursday, May 29, 2008; 6:00 to 7:30 pm
In collaboration with the 2008 World Science Festival, the Paley Center is happy to welcome Mark Everett, creative force behind indie rock band Eels, to introduce the American premiere of this poignant documentary, which will air on the PBS series NOVA this fall. The film follows his very personal journey to understand the astounding discovery that his reclusive father, Hugh, contributed to physics—namely the theory of parallel worlds. Following the screening, Everett will be joined by prominent physicists to explore why, fifty years later, his father's work is gaining wider acceptance. (The World Science Festival, New York City, May 28–June 1, 2008. Go to www.worldsciencefestival.com.)
In Person:
Michio Kaku, Physicist, Author, and Radio Host
Max Tegmark, Cosmologist
Moderator: Brian Cox, Physicist, BBC Television and Radio Presenter
PHOTO CREDIT: BBC
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PBS's Masterpiece Classic
My Boy Jack
With Kim Cattrall
Tuesday, April 15, 2008; 6:00 to 8:15 pm
"Have you news of my boy Jack? Not this tide." The Paley Center will host an advance screening of Masterpiece Classic's World War I drama My Boy Jack by David Haig. Based on Rudyard Kipling's poem, this is the true story of Kipling's fervent efforts to ensure that his hopelessly myopic 17-year-old son Jack enlists in the military, and the writer's devastating grief when the boy is missing in action. Costarring Daniel Radcliffe as Jack and Kim Cattrall as Kipling's American wife, Carrie, with Haig as Kipling. The 95-minute screening will be followed by a panel discussion, featuring Cattrall.
My Boy Jack is a WGBH coproduction with Ecosse Films.
In Person: Kim Cattrall, "Carrie Kipling"; Rebecca Eaton, Executive Producer, Masterpiece; David Alan Richards, Esq., Vice President of the Kipling Society
Rebecca Eaton is a 2007 She Made It honoree. Go to shemadeit.org for information about this Paley Center initiative.
PHOTO CREDIT: Patrick Redmond/Ecosse Films
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