Award-Winning Journalist Naomi Klein SLCC Tanner Forum Speaker
Salt Lake City, Utah (PRWEB) September 28, 2015 -- Salt Lake Community College will host Naomi Klein, author of the New York Times #1 international bestseller “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism,” as a guest speaker for the 2015 Tanner Forum on Social Ethics.
“As an award-winning journalist Naomi Klein has tackled critical cultural issues that span topics such as corporate brands gone awry, free market policies that dominate the world and, most recently, an analysis of the climate crisis,” said Alison McFarlane, SLCC Vice President for Institutional Advancement. “Her books are compelling and provocative as we know her presentation will be as well. We’re pleased to welcome Klein to Salt Lake Community College as our annual Tanner Forum on Social Ethics lecturer.”
Klein will appear November 10, 7 p.m. at the Grand Theatre on SLCC’s South City Campus, 1575 South State Street, Salt Lake City. She will give a 45-minute presentation, followed by a Q&A and then a book signing in the Grand Theatre foyer. The Tanner Forum on Social Ethics is presented by a generous gift from the O.C. Tanner Charitable Foundation and with funding from SLCC Art and Cultural Events programming. The event is free and open to the public, and tickets are not required.
Klein’s latest book, “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate,” is the 2014 winner of the prestigious Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction. Her first book, “No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies,” was also an international bestseller. She is a contributing editor for Harper’s, a reporter for Rolling Stone, an internationally syndicated columnist and a member of the board of directors for 350.org, a global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis. Her reporting from Iraq for Harper’s won her the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism in 2004 and in 2014 she received the International Studies Association’s IPE Outstanding Activist-Scholar award.
The picturesque Grand Theatre is a 1,100-seat venue located at Salt Lake Community College’s historic South City Campus, home of the innovative and state-of-the-industry Center for Arts and Media at 1575 South State Street in Salt Lake City. The Grand dates back to the 1930s when it was part of South High School, which SLCC purchased in 1989, a year after the school closed. The theatre began offering productions that year and has since with great care and expense retained its Depression-era charm and attraction while also incorporating the latest technology in lighting and sound. Every season the Grand is host to award-winning theatre and dance productions and concerts that attract arts enthusiasts from all along the Wasatch Front. Students and faculty in the arts at SLCC’s South City Campus now enjoy and, as a result, excel from having access to the Grand’s nostalgic look and feel and the Center for Arts and Media all in one place.
Stephen Speckman, Salt Lake Community College, +1 (801) 957-5076, [email protected]
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