{"id":3087,"date":"2014-10-14T19:05:34","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T19:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/life\/arts-culture\/conversations-in-place-to-combat-old-perceptions-of-southern-california\/"},"modified":"2014-10-14T19:05:34","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T19:05:34","slug":"conversations-in-place-to-combat-old-perceptions-of-southern-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/art\/conversations-in-place-to-combat-old-perceptions-of-southern-california","title":{"rendered":"Conversations in Place to Combat Old Perceptions of Southern California"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-31214\" src=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/dsc03328.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now in it\u2019s third year, <em>Conversations in Place <\/em>will present its final two explorations of \u201cSouthern California &#8211; Yesterday and Tomorrow\u201d on Sunday, October 19 and Sunday, November 2 at Rancho Los Alamitos in Long Beach.<\/p>\n<p>Contemporary narrators will assess how new narrators of Southern California are affecting how our region is perceived at home and worldwide. Each speaker has created a national audience for their views of Southern California.<\/p>\n<p>Included on the speaking roster:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jonathan Gold, renowned restaurant critic for the <em>Los Angeles Times<\/em>, was the first food critic to win the Pulitzer Prize in 2007 and was a finalist in 2011. Gold was born in South Central Los Angeles, attended UCLA and began writing the column \u201cCounter Intelligence\u201d for <em>LA Weekly<\/em> in 1986.<\/li>\n<li>Jared Farmer, author of <em>Trees in Paradise: A California History<\/em>, won the Francis Parkman Prize for his landscape history <em>On Zion\u2019s Mount<\/em>. The prize recognizes the best written non-fiction book on an American theme and honors the \u201cunion of the historian and the artist.\u201d Farmer is a writer, historian and self-proclaimed \u201cgeohumanist.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Lisa See is an acclaimed novelist who has interpreted historic events in China and the United States through her Chinese American family.<\/li>\n<li>Andrew Bowers is a former NPR White House correspondent, London and Moscow bureau chief and is now executive producer of <em>Slate<\/em>\u2019s award-winning podcasts &#8220;Political Gabfest&#8221; and &#8220;Cultural Gabfest.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These new narrators, raised in Southern California and diverse in ethnicity and experience, have taken up the task of redefining old dichotomies. Southern California\u2019s conflicting reputation for being a place of \u201chealth, wealth and sunshine\u201d contrasted with Hollywood excess, lonely transplants and the negatives of perpetual sunshine are outdated viewpoints just waiting to be disproven.<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of Conversations in Place, below you can find the discussion topics for these remaining two events.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-17681\" src=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ranchoroom.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"269\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>CONNECTING<\/strong><br \/>Sunday, October 19, 2014, 1:30PM to 3:30PM<br \/><em>Urban Nature Isn\u2019t What You Think<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Speakers: Jonathan Gold &amp; Jared Farmer<br \/>The Conversation: Jonathan Gold, Jared Farmer &amp; Jon Christensen with co-moderators Claudia Jurmain &amp; D.J. Waldie<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 30px;\">From the reclamation of the Los Angeles River to iconic open space and the surrounding oceanic and mountain \u201cwilderness,\u201d we still typecast urban nature as places apart, open oases of refuge. But over the region and the globe, more people live in the mythical concrete jungle than the idyllic scene embedded in our American psyche, and nothing seems untouched by human hands. When talking about culture and environment, one plus one equals one. For on the streets we drive, the sidewalks we walk, the products we buy, and in the restaurants where we eat, are everyday encounters with urban nature redefined. From priorities to process to people involved, follow the food chain of pursuits over time to make the connection.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MESSAGES<\/strong><br \/>Sunday, November 2, 2014, 1:30PM to 3:30PM<br \/><em>Who\u2019s Talking Now? Southern Californians Shaping the Message<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Speakers: Lisa See &amp; Andrew Bowers<br \/>The Conversation: Lisa See, Andrew Bowers and David Kipen with co-moderators Claudia Jurmain &amp; D.J. Waldie<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 30px;\">Today, we\u2019re bombarded by points of view and lots of talk. But in the national cacophony, is there a particular message coming from Southern California? Our final Conversation brings together Southern Californians whose voices carry across the nation. Lisa See\u2019s acclaimed books on Chinese-American culture have hit The New York Time\u2019s best seller list. Andrew Bowers, NPR White House correspondent, London &amp; Moscow bureau chief, and now executive producer of Slate\u2019s audio programs, taps into our \u201cPolitical and Culture Gabfest\u201d. David Kipen, journalist, critic, past director of NEA\u2019s reading initiatives, and founder of a free lending library in Boyle Heights, reaches the Latino community. With a national audience in hand, what are these influential voices from Southern California saying?<\/p>\n<p><em>For more information about each speaker, click <a href=\"http:\/\/rancholosalamitos.com\/events\/2014_conversations\/bios_of_speakers.html\">here<\/a>.&nbsp;To make a reservation and purchase your tickets for either event click <a href=\"http:\/\/rancholosalamitos.com\/events\/2014_conversations\/reservations.html\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now in it\u2019s third year, <em>Conversations in Place<\/em> will present its final two explorations of \u201cSouthern California &#8211; Yesterday and Tomorrow\u201d on Sunday, October 19 and Sunday, November 2 at Rancho Los Alamitos in Long Beach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":68365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3087"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=3087"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}