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 2008 to May 2009, 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 thirteenth 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 learn from one of the world’s preeminent commentators on international affairs, three-time Pulitzer Prize-winner, Thomas Friedman. Spend a compelling evening with Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, whose personal courage as a reformer has been leading, healing, and rebuilding Liberia as its president since 2005. Find the passion to make a difference in our world with Greg Mortenson, the mountaineer and author of the best-selling memoir Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace…One School at a Time. Experience an unforgettable evening expanding your national and worldview with respected television reporter and host Anderson Cooper. Laugh along with comedic legend Bob Newhart, share political views and bold ideas with John Bolton. Celebrate America's history and rejoice in our shared humanity with acclaimed filmmaker Ken Burns.
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, Benazir Bhutto, Walter Cronkite, Christiane Amanpour, 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, Whoopi Goldberg, Naomi Judd, Jean-Michel Cousteau, Robert Kennedy Jr., John Wooden, Sally Ride, Maya Angelou, Dennis Miller, Dave Barry, Tom Wolfe, Robert Ballard, 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, located in the Thousand Oaks Performing Arts Center.
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.
