Experience The Talks of the Town!
The Distinguished Speaker Series of Southern California - seven powerful evenings guaranteed to inspire, enlighten, entertain and inform!
The Distinguished Speaker Series of Southern California, with its season running from October 2009 to May 2010, continues a tradition of excellence by offering audiences in Pasadena, Redondo Beach, and Thousand Oaks the opportunity to experience and learn from seven remarkable individuals who have changed the world and shaped our lives…
Subscribers will have the opportunity to enjoy seven candid and relaxed evenings with world leaders, Pulitzer Prize winners, best-selling authors, explorers and celebrated personalities offering profound insights and lively discussion.
Now in its fourteenth season, the series continues by offering you the opportunity to share in an incredible event that you will remember for a lifetime.
We invite you to experience the deep leadership insight of William Jefferson Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States. Experience an unforgettable evening with one of the most revered and admired women in America, former Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice. Spend a compelling evening expanding your national and worldview with legendary broadcaster Dan Rather. Take an epic visual journey around the world with Spencer Wells as he uses DNA to trace the migration routes of our ancient ancestors revealing the incredible tapestry of human diversity created along the way. Learn from television’s premier economic and financial journalist, Ali Velshi, as he offers plain talk on the changing global economy and describes with up-to-the-minute detail, the current financial situation and what it means for you. Celebrate America’s presidency with Pulitzer-Prize-winning presidential historian Michael Beschloss and rejoice in our shared humanity with inspirational best-selling author of The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls.
The Distinguished Speaker Series was launched in 1997 and since then audiences have journeyed back in time and around the globe, traveled from the deepest oceans to Mt. Everest, from the Middle East to Capitol Hill to outer space and back to Wall Street with such remarkable speakers as His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Margaret Thatcher, Mikhail Gorbachev, Queen Noor, Colin Powell, Rudy Giuliani, Madeleine Albright, Henry Kissinger, Shimon Peres, Tom Brokaw, Barbara Bush, Rosalynn Carter, Robert Redford, Benazir Bhutto, Bill Cosby, Tim Russert, Anderson Cooper, Walter Cronkite, Christiane Amanpour, Thomas Friedman, John Glenn, Amy Tan, Norman Schwarzkopf, Elie Wiesel, Jane Goodall, Bob Woodward, David McCullough, Garrison Keillor, Bill O’Reilly, Cokie Roberts, Mario Cuomo, George Stephanopoulos, Bob Newhart, Whoopi Goldberg, Dr. Andrew Weil, Jean-Michel Cousteau, Robert Kennedy, Jr., John Wooden, Sally Ride, Maya Angelou, Dennis Miller, Dave Barry, Tom Wolfe, Robert Ballard, Sarah Ferguson, Ken Burns and more.
Audiences throughout the greater Los Angeles area have three locations to experience the series: the Pasadena Civic Auditorium, the Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center and the Fred Kavli Theatre at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza.
Don’t miss the ultimate in cultural entertainment! Experience thinkers and leaders of vision, personal courage and wisdom! You’ll be moved, you’ll be challenged, you’ll leave inspired.
