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Thursday
, May 29
Festival Hub (808 Commonwealth Ave)
3:00pm •
Early badge pickup
WBUR CitySpace (890 Commonwealth Ave)
5:00pm •
A Perfect Pairing: Lessons in Leadership (separate ticket required)
Friday
, May 30
Booth Theatre (820 Commonwealth Ave)
9:30am •
The Age of Anxiety
11:00am •
The Color of Capital
12:30pm •
Frontiers of Medicine
2:00pm •
Climate and Clean Energy in an Age of Uncertainty
3:30pm •
Dying Well
5:00pm •
What Smart Businesses Know About A.I.
CFA Concert Hall (855 Commonwealth Ave)
9:30am •
The Future of Innovation in Massachusetts
11:00am •
How to Be a Better Parent: A Conversation with Emily Oster
12:30pm •
Otherness and Solidarity: A Conversation with Viet Thanh Nguyen
2:00pm •
A Conversation with Mayor Wu
3:30pm •
Higher Ed Today
5:00pm •
Our Homeless Neighbors
Dance Theatre (915 Commonwealth Ave)
11:30am •
Local News at a Crossroads
1:00pm •
Harvard Business Review in Conversation
2:30pm •
Health on a Warming Planet
4:00pm •
A Vision for Powering New England with Bill McKibben
5:30pm •
Common Wealth
Festival Hub (808 Commonwealth Ave)
8:30am •
FESTIVAL HUB: Check In & Badge Pickup
9:00am •
Endicott College Headshot Station
2:30pm •
FESTIVAL HUB: Have a Beer with Joe Castiglione
4:00pm •
FESTIVAL HUB: Greening Your Life
5:00pm •
FESTIVAL HUB: Happy Hour with WBUR's Newsletters Team & Grist
FitRec Center (915 Commonwealth Ave)
9:30am •
Signal and Noise
6:00pm •
The WBUR Festival Anniversary Bash (separate ticket required)
George Sherman Union Pavillion
9:00am •
Boston Press Photographer's Association: Pictures of the Year Exhibit
Tsai Performance Center (685 Commonwealth Ave)
10:00am •
America and the World: A Conversation with Nicholas Burns
11:30am •
Behind-the-Scenes of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
1:00pm •
Misinformation and Disinformation, Deconstructed
2:30pm •
Hunger, Anger, Joy: A Conversation with Roxane Gay
4:00pm •
How Easy is That? A Conversation with Ina Garten
5:30pm •
The Future of Reproductive Rights
WBUR CitySpace (890 Commonwealth Ave)
10:00am •
Amicus
11:30am •
Is Business Broken?
1:00pm •
The NY Times Spelling Bee Buzzes Into Boston
2:30pm •
On Point
4:00pm •
Design Matters
Saturday
, May 31
Booth Theatre (820 Commonwealth Ave)
10:00am •
Trans Lives, Human Rights
11:30am •
Backing Black Arts in Boston
1:00pm •
Sandwiches of History with Eugene Mirman
2:30pm •
Ending Gun Violence: The Boston Blueprint
4:00pm •
Why Museums Matter
5:30pm •
Disappearing Coastlines
CFA Concert Hall (855 Commonwealth Ave)
10:00am •
A Conversation with Mayoral Candidate Josh Kraft
11:30am •
Truth, Trust and the State of Independent Journalism
1:00pm •
Casuals with Katie Nolan
2:30pm •
Reimagining Boston
4:00pm •
Inside the Creative Process
5:30pm •
Have the Last Laugh: A Boston Comedy Showcase
Dance Theatre (915 Commonwealth Ave)
10:30am •
Art in Public
12:00pm •
Mind Your Money: A Conversation with Katie Gatti Tassin
1:30pm •
The Future of Dinner
3:00pm •
Freedom School: Black Resistance, Past and Present
4:30pm •
Whose Woods are These?
6:30pm •
Massachusetts: A Song of Itself
Festival Hub (808 Commonwealth Ave)
8:30am •
Check In & Badge Pickup
9:00am •
Endicott College Headshot Station
12:00pm •
FESTIVAL HUB: Nan's Kitchen Pop-Up
12:30pm •
Who's Your Founding Father with ESPN Senior Writer David Fleming
1:30pm •
FESTIVAL HUB: Have a Beer with Boston Legacy's Domènec Guasch
2:30pm •
FESTIVAL HUB: Have a Beer with Host Bob Oakes
3:30pm •
FESTIVAL HUB: Have a Beer with Jeopardy Champ Amy Schneider
4:30pm •
FESTIVAL HUB: Have a Beer with Author Hannah Selinger
5:30pm •
FESTIVAL HUB: Have a Beer with Screenwriter Chuck Hogan
FitRec Center (915 Commonwealth Ave)
12:30pm •
Our Racial Reckoning: Kimberlé Crenshaw and Jamelle Bouie in Conversation
2:00pm •
A Conversation with Dr. Anthony Fauci
5:00pm •
Story Time: A Conversation with Ira Glass
KidStage (775 Commonwealth Ave)
10:00am •
KIDSTAGE: Stacey Peasley
10:30am •
KIDSTAGE: Janet Costa Bates
11:00am •
KIDSTAGE: Comics and Adventure Draw-Off!
12:00pm •
KIDSTAGE: Wee the People Pop-Up
12:15pm •
KIDSTAGE: Magnificent Monster Circus
1:30pm •
KIDSTAGE: Amy Schneider
2:00pm •
KIDSTAGE: Jamie Michalak
2:15pm •
KIDSTAGE: Frank & Bean: The Musical
3:15pm •
KIDSTAGE: Frederick Joseph
3:45pm •
KIDSTAGE: Circle Round
Street Fair (270 Bay State Rd)
12:00pm •
STREET FAIR STAGE: The Light in the Piazza
12:00pm •
STREET FAIR: Fluff Festival Pop-Up
12:00pm •
STREET FAIR (food trucks, games, music and more!)
12:00pm •
STREET FAIR: FOUND Market Pop-Up
12:30pm •
Street Fair: Middlesex County Volunteers Fifes & Drums
1:15pm •
STREET FAIR STAGE: Pranav Swaroop
2:15pm •
STREET FAIR STAGE: Hush Club
3:15pm •
STREET FAIR STAGE: Neta Weiner
4:15pm •
STREET FAIR STAGE: Naomi Westwater
5:15pm •
STREET FAIR STAGE: Beeef
Sunset Cantina (916 Commonwealth Ave)
5:00pm •
Happy Hour/Dance Party with Con Salsa
Tsai Performance Center (685 Commonwealth Ave)
12:00pm •
Behind-the-Scenes of Car Talk
1:30pm •
A New Era for Immigrants and Immigration
3:00pm •
Please Pack Your Knives and Go: A Conversation with Kristen Kish
4:30pm •
How to Save the Planet: A Conversation with Gina McCarthy
6:00pm •
Wild Card with Kathleen Hanna
WBUR CitySpace (890 Commonwealth Ave)
12:00pm •
Atlas Obscura
1:30pm •
Sing for Science with Josh Ritter & Avi Loeb
3:00pm •
Decoder Ring
4:30pm •
Vibe Check
6:30pm •
The Crossword Show
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