Schedule

CARMEL AUTHORS & IDEAS FESTIVAL

Welcome

Due to your generous support, the Festival has become a place where great minds come to commune and to discuss contemporary issues in open, creative and engaging dialogue.

 Among those early Pilgrims was our beloved Irish muse, Frank McCourt. He was the eager pilot on our river of intellectual exploration. Also, Bill Bates, the local legend who designed our first program. Their enthusiasm for what we then dreamed, sustains us now, with a beacon they left for countless others who will follow and make this dream a reality on the doorstep of John Steinbeck…they are missed.

The Festival has become a mecca for timely ideas and a “bedrock” of intellectual values which have been explored by many notable and award winning authors and leading thinkers on such diverse topics as economics, religion, mathematics, astronomy, poetry, education, humor, philosophy, globalization, food, science, technology, art, travel, security, business, law and ideas. Join us again in our continuing creative journey.

Cynthia & Jim McGillen

Schedule of Events*

Friday, September 24, 2010

 4:00  -   6:00 pm         Registration and reception

  6:00  -   7:15 pm         Opening session with David Brooks

Saturday, September 25, 2010

  8:00  -   9:00 am        Coffee and pastries

   8:15  -   8:50 am        Book signings and Break-out sessions with the authors

   9:00  - 12:15 pm        Morning sessions

 12:15  -   1:30 pm        Lunch and Break-out sessions

   1:30  -   5:00 pm        Afternoon sessions                                            

Sunday, September 26, 2010

  8:00  –   9:00 am        Coffee and pastries

   8:15  -   8:50 am        Book signings and Break-out sessions with the authors

   9:00  - 12:15 pm        Morning sessions and closing ceremonies

Note: specific authors, speaking times and book signings to be announced September 1.