What do award-winning actor Alfre Woodard, NYT's David Brooks, drag queen Sasha Velour, NASA’s mission head to Jupiter, and one of the world’s leading cancer surgeons have in common? They all know something that makes them hopeful for the future. Come find out what at this one-of-a-kind event in one of the most beautiful buildings on the National Mall.
The Long Conversation is an epic creative marathon between artists, scientists and other big thinkers that’s guaranteed to leave you feeling better about the future. Once a year, NASA astronauts, Grammy-winning musicians, tech CEOs, poets, inventors and more converge in the historic Arts & Industries Building for a lively 8-hour relay race of surprising conversations around the best ideas on the horizon.
Plus, incredible performances; pop-ups from James Beard Award-winning chef Spike Gjerde of Rake’s Progress at the Line Hotel, drinks from DC’s small-batch, women-owned distillery Republic Restoratives; art installs from Julia Buntaine Hoel, Phaan Howng, McCormack and Figg, and Gabriel Mellan; and the rare chance to explore the soaring halls of America’s first National Museum.
Sound crazy? It is—also uplifting, surprising, and a ton of fun.
SESSION 2 (5 PM): Legendary manager of Lady Gaga and John Legend Troy Carter, breast cancer researcher Dr. Laura Esserman, community organizer Hawah Kasat, Smithsonian astrophysicist Mercedes Lopez-Morales, inventor and entrepreneur Jessica Matthews, Smithsonian regent and philanthropist David Rubenstein, drag queen and designer Sasha Velour, 11-year-old March for Our Lives activist Naomi Wadler, Daily Show comedian Roy Wood, Jr.
Speakers in sequence:
Rachel Goslins
Director of the Arts & Industries Building, Smithsonian
Former Executive Director, President's Committee on the Arts & Humanities for the Obama White House. Documentary filmmaker. Policy wonk. Recovering lawyer. Artsy but jsut kinda.
David Rubenstein
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer ...More...
- 2018_DC_Long_Convo_181207: Smithsonian -- Long Convo -- Miscellaneous Images @ Arts and Industries Bldg (34 photos from 2018)
- 2018_DC_Long_ConvoS1A_181207: Smithsonian -- Long Convo -- Session 1 (of 3) w/Rachel Goslins, David Skorton, Larisa Martinez, Michael Govan, Obi Felten, Danny Hillis, Liz Cottrell, Carla Hayden, Cheech Marin, Jacqueline Suskin, and Mily Treviņo-Sauceda @ Arts and Industries Bldg (176 photos from 2018)
- 2018_DC_Long_ConvoS2A_181207: Smithsonian -- Long Convo -- Session 2 (of 3) w/Rachel Goslins, David Rubenstein, Scott Bolton, Jessica O. Matthews, Roy Wood Jr., Mercedes Lopez-Morales, Bei Yang, Naomi Wadler, Alfre Woodard, Bruce Friedrich, Laura Esserman, Sasha Velour, and Malak Wazne @ Arts and Industries Bldg (204 photos from 2018)
- 2018_DC_Long_ConvoS3A_181207: Smithsonian -- Long Convo -- Session 3 (of 3) w/Rachel Goslins, Malak Wazne, David Brooks, Jon Grinspan, Hawah Kasat, Troy Carter, Nick Pyenson, Spike Gjerde, Jean Bennett, and C. Brian Williams @ Arts and Industries Bldg (169 photos from 2018)
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