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Joshua Tree National Park's Beauty

By KCET Local Events
December 23, 2008

Every Saturday night, a park ranger and volunteers offer a variety of slide presentations illustrating Joshua Tree's natural resources and a colorful history of the park.

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JPL and The Beginnings of the Space Age

By KCET Local Events
December 23, 2008

A talk by Blaine Baggett, JPL's Manager of Communications.

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The Next American Century: Can the US Thrive in a New Era of Big Powers?

By KCET Local Events
December 23, 2008

Moderated by Kal Raustiala, Nina Hachigian and Mona Sutphen, co-authors of The Next American Century: How the U.S. Can Thrive As Other Powers Rise, discuss how the U.S. can thrive in an age of multiple powers.

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Do Cities Have Expiration Dates?

By KCET Local Events
December 23, 2008

Architects Quingyun Ma and Thom Mayne will examine the lifecycle of built environments - how cities can preserve their urban vitality and integrate sustainability, digital technology and economical systems, as well as accommodate new trends in the way people live, work, play and communicate.

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Concrete Daisies

By KCET Local Events
December 23, 2008

What happens when the finest local Butoh dancers work with a range of local sound artists and live video mixers? Directed by Carole Kim in collaboration with eighteen LA-based artists, "Concrete Daisies" will utilize the site where the work will be installed in most intriguing and creative ways possible.

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Spiritual Dimensions of Islamic Art

By KCET Local Events
December 23, 2008

Speaker Caroline Williams has graduate degrees in Middle East History from Harvard University and in Islamic Art and Architecture from the American University in Cairo.

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Use All Five with Jason Farrell and Levi Brooks + Motion Theory

By KCET Local Events
December 23, 2008

Use All Five, Inc. is a full service creative studio in Venice, California. Their focus on the senses has inspired them to rigorously push creative and branding direction, a usually flat and senseless ordeal, outward in order to create a stir in the human emotions.

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The Challenges of U.S. Public Diplomacy in the 21st Century

By KCET Local Events
December 23, 2008

Explores new opportunities in the digital age.

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Yanni Voices

By KCET Local Events
December 9, 2008

Be the first to get tickets for Yanni's much anticipated June 2009 concert featuring the talent of four new artists performing live.

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The Doors: Jim Morrison Bus Tour

By KCET Local Events
December 9, 2008

Here's your chance to hop on a double-decker bus and visit many Hollywood sights significant in the career of Jim Morrison and The Doors.

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Celtic Woman: Isle of Hope Tour

By KCET Local Events
December 9, 2008

KCET is thrilled that Celtic Woman will return to Southern California during their upcoming Isle of Hope tour for two breathtaking performances!

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Martin Kippenberger: The Problem Perspective

By KCET Local Events
November 11, 2008

Includes key selections and bodies of work from Kippenberger's entire career: paintings, sculpture, works on paper, installations, multiples, photographs, posters, announcement cards, and books.

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Louise Bourgeous

By KCET Local Events
November 11, 2008

This comprehensive exhibition is the first major survey of American artist Louise Bourgeois's (b. 1911, Paris, France) work in more than a decade.

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Wild Ocean 3D

By KCET Local Events
November 11, 2008

An explosive, symphonic giant screen film about man and nature.

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9 Scripts from a Nation at War

By KCET Local Events
October 27, 2008

A multi-channel video installation that responds to the conditions and questions that have arisen during the military conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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