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Zócalo presents a vibrant series of programs that feature thinkers and doers speaking on some of the most pressing topics of the day. Bringing together an extraordinarily diverse group of Angelenos, Zócalo--"Public Square" in Spanish--seeks to create a non partisan and multiethnic forum where participants can enjoy a rare opportunity for intellectual fellowship.

Zócalo Radio airs weekly on KPCC 89.3FM
Tune in Sundays at 9pm/Grab the Podcast Anytime

Please join us on July 6th for: Matt Welch, editor in chief of Reason magazine, deconstructs John McCain

Zócalo at The Hammer

Tuesday, July 8, 7:30 PM at The Hammer Museum

Baby, I'm Bored: When Did Motherhood Become a Career and Is It a Professional Disaster? A Conversation with Leslie Bennetts and Meg Wolitzer

Moderated by Meghan Daum, Los Angeles Times columnist

Forty years ago, the term "stay at home mom" would have been considered redundant. Twenty years ago, "housewife" had become a dirty word and the ability to balance family and career was seen as an extension of female self-respect and empowerment. Today, some women are rejecting the 1980s-era notion of "having it all" by dropping out of the workforce--sometimes permanently--to raise their children. In her book The Feminine Mistake, journalist Leslie Bennetts suggests that women have been oversold on the idea they must choose between being good workers and being good mothers. Using extensive data, she suggests that women who stop working even temporarily sacrifice much more than financial stability.

If there's a fictional companion to The Feminine Mistake, it's Meg Wolitzer's The Ten Year Nap. The story of four highly educated friends who put their careers on hold a decade earlier when they had children, Wolitzer's novel explores how and why these women still haven't gone back to work despite their children being school aged. In a lively and provocative discussion, these two writers--both mothers themselves--will talk about the complications and contradictions of "having it all" and the role that feminism does (or doesn't) play in the lives of contemporary women.

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Zócalo at The Actors’ Gang

Monday, July 14, 7:30 pm at The Actors’ Gang

Josh Kun, “The Kidnapped Country: Violence, Drugs, and the Crisis of Mexican Culture”

The headlines mount daily. Drug gangs battle next to a kindergarten in Tijuana. Mexican streets are lined with military Humvees. Top-ranking police officers are assassinated or issued death threats. Kidnappings of innocent citizens are on the rise. Mexican President Felipe Calderón calls the violence a sign of success that the government is winning the war. But against who? And at what cost? L.A.-based writer and scholar Josh Kun visits Zócalo to explore the current crisis in Mexico within the broader context of contemporary globalization, drawing on personal, cultural, and political sources—from testimonies of victims to local blog accounts to the drug ballads of popular songs.

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Zócalo at Central Library

Tuesday, July 15, 7:30 pm at Central Library

Are L.A.’s Hospitals Safe?

Moderated by Charles Ornstein, Los Angeles Times Health investigative reporter

Consider the errors reported in recent months at Los Angeles area hospitals: The newborn twins of an A-list actor received an overdose of heparin that could have caused serious damage or death. Three patients at one large medical center had surgery on the wrong body part in a 14-month span. And an emergency room patient at a public hospital left before his treatment was finished and was found dead in a parking lot across the street. All of these cases raise questions about the quality of Los Angeles-area hospitals. While most patients are pleased with their care, some wish they could have chosen a different hospital. The good news is that consumers have never before had access to so much information to help them choose which hospital is right for them. Patients can find data on hospitals' survival rates, patient satisfaction and how well they follow standard medical guidelines for the treatment of common ailments. Charles Ornstein, a health investigative reporter for the Los Angeles Times, visits Zócalo to lead a panel that will include, among others, Dr. David Feinberg, chief executive of the UCLA Hospital System and Carole Moss, a proponent of public reporting of hospital infection rates whose 15-year-old son Nile died of a drug-resistant staph infection in 2006, and Patti Harvey, vice president of quality and risk management for Kaiser Permanente's Southern California region. They'll talk about how to measure the quality of medical care delivered at local hospitals and the types of questions consumers should ask before they enter one.

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Zócalo in Shanghai

Sunday, July 27, 2008, 4:00 pm at Zendai Museum of Modern Art

Zócalo, the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West and the USC American Academy in China
Present

L.A. vs. Shanghai: Who Is the Art Capital of the Pacific Rim?

Moderated by Qingyun Ma, Dean of the USC School of Architecture

Along the Pacific Rim, two cities are focusing on their cultural programs with refined lenses: Los Angeles and Shanghai. These two cities represent polar ends of dealing with time in relation to culture. Institutions of visual and performing art in Los Angeles often rely on retrospective exhibitions, reprise performances or classic films, looking to their recent past to emphasize their youth as a city that emerged a mere 230 years ago. In stark contrast, China's contemporary visual and performing artists generally look to their unknown future with imaginative utopias that express their regenerative urbanisms and identities in the a cross-generational variety of media, from craft like paintings to high tech digital work. Luping Yue, Director of the Xi'an Center for Modern Art, Sine Bepler, an arts and architecture critic and curator for ShanghART gallery, Olga Garay, Executive Director of the City of L.A's Department of Cultural Affairs, James Elaine, Adjunct Curator at the Hammer Museum, and Shanghai-based artist Song Tao, whose photographic work explores the city's landscape, join us for a cross-disciplinary—and cross-continental—discussion about the forces shaping the cultural lives of Shanghai and Los Angeles. (This event is made possible, in part, by a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation of Los Angeles.)

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Events Are Free
Seating is limited, For On-Line Reservations Click Here
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The Actors’ Gang
at The Ivy Substation
9070 Venice Blvd.  Culver City, CA 90232
Parking located in the Ince Parking Structure next to Trader Joe's on Culver and Ince Streets.
Plan your trip using Metro.

ArcLight Hollywood
6360 W. Sunset Blvd (between Vine and Ivar, with DeLongpre to the south) Los Angeles, CA 90028
Directions and parking go to: https://www.arclightcinemas.com/static/Directions.html
Parking $6 maximum without validation.
Plan your trip using Metro.

ArcLight Sherman Oaks
15301 Ventura Blvd (at Sepulveda in the Sherman Oaks Galleria) Sherman Oaks, CA 91403
Directions and parking go to: https://www.arclightcinemas.com/static/Directions.html
Parking free with validation.
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Autry National Center
4700 Western Heritage Way
Los Angeles, CA, 90027-1462
Directions and parking go to: http://www.autrynationalcenter.org/visit.php
Free parking.
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Barnsdall Gallery Theatre
4800 Hollywood Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90027
Directions: http://www.BGTtix.com
Free parking in the lot at the bottom of the hill and in parking spaces surrounding the perimeter of the Barnsdall Art Park.
Plan your trip using Metro

Beckman Institute Auditorium
California Institute of Technology
332 South Michigan Avenue
Pasadena, CA 91106
Directions: http://events.caltech.edu/find.html
Plan your trip using Metro.

The California Endowment
Yosemite Hall at the Center for Healthy Communities
1000 N. Alameda Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Directions and parking go to: http://www.calendow.org/chc/center_directions.html
Plan your trip using Metro.

Central Library
Central Library, Mark Taper Auditorium
Parking is at 524 S. Flower St. Garage.
$8 weekdays after 4 PM
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The Center at Cathedral Plaza
Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels
555 West Temple Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Directions and parking go to:
http://cathedral.la-archdiocese.org/gettinghere/index.html
Parking $10 weekdays.
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Goethe-Institut Los Angeles
5750 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 100
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Located in the Wilshire Courtyard Campus, kitty corner from the La Brea Tar Pits. Enter on Wilshire at Courtyard Place, one block east of Curson. Free parking on site after 6 pm.
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Harmony Gold Theatre
7655 Sunset Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90046
Free parking in the lot behind the theatre. Enter on N. Stanley Avenue.
Plan your trip using Metro.

The Hammer Museum
10899 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Directions and parking go to:
http://www.hammer.ucla.edu/information_planning.htm
Parking is a $3 flat rate after 6 pm.
Plan your trip using Metro.

Los Angeles Theatre Center (NEW LATC)
514 S. Spring Street
Los Angeles, CA 90013
Parking: $5 after 4 pm at 536 S. Spring Street
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
5905 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Directions: http://www.lacma.org/info/HoursDirections.aspx
$5, Spaulding lot (Wilshire and Spaulding).
Note: Parking is free for vehicles entering the Spaulding lot after 7 pm. Plan your trip using Metro.

The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA)
250 South Grand Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Directions and parking go to:
http://www.moca.org/museum/visit_home.php?
Parking $8 w/MOCA validation at the Walt Disney Concert Hall garage, enter from Lower Grand Ave.
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The Music Center of Los Angeles County,
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Grand Hall
The Music Center
135 N. Grand Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Directions and parking go to:
http://www.musiccenter.org/directions_mc.html
Parking is at 135 North Grand Avenue in Downtown L.A., underneath the Center, on Grand Avenue between 1st & Temple. $8 for Evening Performances.
Plan your trip using Metro.

The Music Center of Los Angeles County,
Walt Disney Concert Hall, BP Hall
Walt Disney Concert Hall
111 S. Grand Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Directions and parking go to:
http://www.musiccenter.org/directions_wdch.html
Parking is located under the concert hall with entrances on Second Street or Hope Street. $8/weekdays after 4 PM for evening events.
Plan your trip using Metro.

The Nate Holden Performing Arts Center
4718 W. Washington Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90016-1516
Directions and parking go to: http://nhpac.com/at_the_holden/contact.html
Free parking.
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NPR West
9909 Jefferson Boulevard
Culver City, CA 90232
Free parking is available on-site behind the building.
Plan your trip using Metro.

The Orpheum Theatre
842 S. Broadway Los Angeles, CA 90014
Directions and parking go to: http://www.laorpheum.com/directions.html
Parking at Joe's Auto Parks on 839 S. Spring St. (Lot B) or
817 S. Spring St. (Lot C). Spring St. is east of Broadway.
Zócalo does not validate parking.
Plan your trip using Metro.

Zendai Museum of Modern Art
No.28, Lane 199, Fangdian Rd
Shanghai, China
芳甸路199弄28号

Skirball Cultural Center
2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90049
Directions: http://skirball.org/index.php?s=PlanVisit
Free parking on site in North Lot. Enter at Herscher Way.
Plan your trip using Metro.

Southwestern Law School Bullocks Wilshire Building
Louis XVI Room, 2nd Floor
3050 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90010
Directions: http://www.swlaw.edu/directions
Parking $6, enter on Wilshire Place.
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Banning's Landing Community Center
100 East Water Street, Wilmington, CA 90744
Directions: http://www.wilmington-chamber.com/banlndct.htm
Free parking in Community Center Lot.
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