2012 nancy hanks lecture on arts and public policy
Alec Baldwin
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The 25th Annual Nancy Hanks Lecture on Arts and Public Policy
April 16, 2012, 6:30 p.m.
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Concert Hall
Acclaimed actor and arts advocate Alec Baldwin will deliver the 25th Annual Nancy Hanks Lecture on Arts and Public Policy. Receive two free tickets to the lecture with your Arts Advocacy Day registration or reserve your tickets online today.
The Nancy Hanks Lecture on Arts and Public Policy is a leading national forum for arts policy intended to stimulate dialogue on policy and social issues affecting the arts. It is held each year on the evening before Arts Advocacy Day at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC.
The annual lecture is named for Nancy Hanks, former president of Americans for the Arts and chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, who devoted 15 years of her professional life to bringing the arts to prominent national consciousness.
Tickets will be available for pick up the night of the lecture at the Will Call Desk in front of the Concert Hall at the Kennedy Center. If you wish to attend without reserving a ticket, no guarantees of seating can be made; however unclaimed seats are offered according to availability. Please pick up your tickets by 6:15 p.m. as the lecture begins promptly at 6:30 p.m.
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Americans for the Arts extends special thanks to Ovation for its partnership in presenting the 25th Annual Nancy Hanks Lecture on Arts and Public Policy. |
Past lecturers include:
| 2011 |
Kevin Spacey, Academy Award®-winning actor and Artistic Director of the Old Vic Theatre: Video and Audio; Transcript |
| 2010 | Joseph P. Riley, Jr., Mayor, Charleston, SC: Audio; Transcript |
| 2009 | Wynton Marsalis, Artistic Director, Jazz at Lincoln Center: Transcript; Video and Audio |
| 2008 | Daniel Pink, best-selling author: Transcript; Audio |
| 2007 | Robert MacNeil, broadcast journalist and author: Transcript; Audio |
| 2006 | William Safire, columnist and author: Transcript; Audio |
| 2005 | Ken Burns, documentary filmmaker: Transcript |
| 2004 | Doris Kearns Goodwin, journalist and author: Transcript |
| 2003 | Robert Redford, actor, director, and activist: Transcript |
| 2002 | Zelda Fichandler, Founding Director of Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. and Chair of the Graduate Acting Program and Master Teacher of Acting and Directing at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts: Transcript |
| 2001 | Frank Rich, op-ed columnist for The New York Times: Transcript |
| 2000 | Terry Semel, immediate past Chairman and Co-CEO of Warner Bros. and Warner Music Group: Transcript |
| 1999 | Wendy Wasserstein, playwright: Transcript |
| 1998 | Dr. Billy Taylor, jazz musician and educator: Transcript |
| 1997 | Alan K. Simpson, former U.S. Senator: Transcript |
| 1996 | Carlos Fuentes, author: Transcript |
| 1995 | Winton Malcolm Blount, Chairman of Blount, Inc., philanthropist, former U.S. Postmaster General: Transcript |
| 1994 | David McCullough, historian: Transcript |
| 1993 | Barbara Jordan, former U.S. Congresswoman: Transcript |
| 1992 | Franklin D. Murphy, former Chief Executive Officer of the Times Mirror Company: Transcript |
| 1991 | John Brademas, former Congressman, President Emeritus of New York University: Transcript |
| 1990 | Maya Angelou, poet: Transcript |
| 1989 | Leonard Garment, Special Counsel to Presidents Nixon and Ford: Transcript |
| 1988 | Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., historian: Transcript |
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