The Coachella Valley’s premier lecture series, Desert Town Hall, presented by the H.N. and Frances C. Berger Foundation, is proud to present Frank Abagnale whose riveting life story inspired Steven Spielberg’s 2002 film, Catch Me If You Can.
A Place at the Table: Dining at Sunnylands, celebrates Walter and Leonore Annenberg’s remarkable history of diplomacy and social gatherings through an exploration of the fine china and tableware they used to entertain guests for decades, and which is still used for important meetings to this day.
Emmitt Smith, the NFL’s career rushing leader will speak at The Show nine days after the Super Bowl. In a recent ESPN article on sports most unbreakable records ever, Smith’s 18,355 rushing yards was listed as the NFL record that “won’t be broken”. This year is the 20th anniversary of when Smith broke the record, formerly held by Chicago Bears great Walter Payton.
The Coachella Valley’s premier lecture series, Desert Town Hall, presented by the H.N. and Frances C. Berger Foundation, is proud to present Kimberly Strassel, a 2014 Bradley Prize recipient and both a weekly columnist and an editorial board member for The Wall Street Journal.
The Coachella Valley’s premier lecture series, Desert Town Hall, presented by the H.N. and Frances C. Berger Foundation, is proud to present Mike Pompeo, the first person to have held both positions as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and as Secretary of State.
Closing out the 2023 series on March 21, is boxing legend and six-time world champion Sugar Ray Leonard. Regarded as one of the greatest fighters of all time, Leonard won world titles in five weight classes, including three lineal championships, and was also the first boxer to earn over $100 million in his career. As an amateur, Leonard was the 1976 Olympic gold medalist. In 2016, The Ring magazine listed Leonard as the greatest living fighter, and he was also listed as the Boxer of the Decade in the 1980s.
The Coachella Valley’s premier lecture series, Desert Town Hall, presented by the H.N. and Frances C. Berger Foundation, is proud to present Walter Isaacson, the former president and CEO of the Aspen Institute, he also served as chairman and CEO of CNN, and was a managing editor at Time magazine
The Rancho Mirage Writers Festival is an annual celebration of writers, books, readers, and ideas! The City of Rancho Mirage, California will welcome authors and readers to the Rancho Mirage Public Library. Writers will talk about their books, their source of ideas, and the mechanics of writing for publication.
Mayor Quintanilla and staff from the City of Palm Desert look forward to hearing your thoughts, ideas, and questions!
In this wild, insightful romp, Mireya shares her unorthodox path to becoming a world-renowned scientist and popular TV Host with a behind-the-scenes look at her career—near-death experiences in the Congo, discovering the world’s smallest primate in Madagascar, trekking across Africa with three companions in the footsteps of Stanley and Livingstone with nothing but a compass, a few maps, and Stanley’s original journals, and her real-life drama, juggling a family of 8+1!
Celebrating a life on stage, Lucie Arnaz returns to her theater roots looking back at some of the roles she has had on stages throughout the world. From her first role at 14 as The Cheshire Cat in Alice In Wonderland to a grandmother hanging upside down on a trapeze while singing about the preciousness of life in Pippin, Lucie and Musical Director Ron Abel offer audiences this brand-new concert sharing stories and songs that Lucie has long been known for.
Despite this new era of hyper-connective technology, we are becoming a more divided and less compassionate species. Travel can be an antidote to hate and ignorance by teaching us to laugh at ourselves, appreciate the limits of our own worldview, and learn from the knowledge and experience of different cultures. With humorous and gripping tales pulled from journeys to over 100 countries, Andrew reveals how travel can truly change our lives—and the world.
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