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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.

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Please join us on December 23rd for: Critically-acclaimed novelist Francisco Goldman on "The Art of Political Murder in Central America"

Zócalo at The California Endowment

Wednesday, January 9, 7pm at The California Endowment

Shannon Brownlee: Is Too Much Medicine Making Us Sick?

In most markets, paying more buys better quality. When you pay $400 for a night in the Four Seasons, you expect to get a better room and better service than you would at Motel 6. But in health care, the normal rules of economics don't seem to apply. The American health care system ranks in the bottom third of developed nations. American medicine kills 100,000 patients a year through medical error and our health statistics are on a par with the Czech Republic and Chile, countries that you'd think would be beating us at soccer, not health care. Yet we spend twice as much per capita on average as any other developed country. The cost of U.S. health care has outstripped growth in the general economy for more than 30 years, and shows no signs of slowing down. Shannon Brownlee, author of Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer, argues that our health care is so expensive because we waste as much as a third of every health care dollar, about $700 billion a year, on care that patients don't need – and would probably avoid if they knew how useless and dangerous it is.

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Zócalo at MOCA Grand Avenue

Thursday, January 10, 7:30 pm at MOCA Grand Avenue

“Do Cities Have Expiration Dates?”

A Conversation with Architects Qingyun Ma and Thom Mayne

Given the fact that inhabitable spaces on the earth’s surface are limited, there is a growing discussion about how cities should be built and/or transformed to accommodate the needs of future generations. Architects Qingyun Ma and Thom Mayne visit Zócalo to explore whether cities should be preserved as built or have “expiration dates” like everything organic. They 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. 
 
Qingyun Ma is dean of the University of Southern California’s School of Architecture and founder of the Shanghai-headquartered firm MADA s.p.a.m., the most visible Chinese-based practice on the global scene. Thom Mayne, the winner of the 2005 Pritzker Prize, is the founder of Morphosis, an interdisciplinary and collective practice involved in experimental design and rigorous research based in Santa Monica.   

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Zócalo at NPR West

Thursday, January 24, 7:30 PM at NPR West

Zócalo and NPR West Present

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

Moderated by Kal Raustiala, Director of the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations

America’s way of life will undoubtedly be affected by the rise of other global powers in this century -- like China and India -- but we are at a rare moment in history in which none of the world’s big powers is our adversary. Nina Hachigian and Mona Sutphen, co-authors of The Next American Century: How the U.S. Can Thrive As Other Powers Rise, visit Zócalo to discuss how the U.S. can thrive in an age of multiple powers. They argue the U.S. must welcome emerging nations into a vigorous international order to share the burden of solving pressing global problems of peace, climate, health, and growth.  

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Barnsdall Art Park
4800 Hollywood Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90027
Directions: http://www.barnsdallartpark.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 maximum/weekdays after 4 PM
Plan your trip using Metro.

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.
Plan your trip using Metro.

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
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.
Plan your trip using Metro.

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.
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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.
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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.

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.
Plan your trip using Metro.

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