Live From 92NY
Live From 92NY
An Evening With Jon Stewart and John Feal
I Will Follow You Anywhere
Thursday, September 17 | 6-8 PM | JCC Dance Hall
Social Hour and Livestream
Free and Open to the Public
RSVP: community@slcjcc.org
What does it take to force the most powerful institutions in America to keep their promises? For John Feal, it took unimaginable personal loss, relentless determination, and an unlikely partnership with Jon Stewart that would help change history.
Join Stewart and Feal for a moving, inspiring conversation about Feal’s new memoir, I Will Follow You Anywhere: The True Story of the 9/11 Responders Who Took On Congress — the extraordinary story of the 9/11 responder who transformed personal tragedy into one of the most influential advocacy campaigns of our time.
On September 11, 2001, Feal rushed to Ground Zero to aid in the recovery effort. Five days later, an 8,000-pound steel beam crushed his foot, resulting in a partial amputation — and because he was injured outside the initial 96-hour window set by Congress for the original victims’ fund, he was denied compensation. As he rebuilt his life, he watched fellow responders fall ill from toxic exposure while the country — and Congress — failed to honor its promise to care for them. Feal became the driving force behind the campaign to secure healthcare and compensation for tens of thousands of 9/11 responders and survivors. He found a steadfast ally in Jon Stewart, whose impassioned public advocacy on The Daily Show and unforgettable testimony before Congress helped galvanize national attention and ultimately bring lawmakers to action.
On the 25th anniversary of Feal’s life-changing accident at Ground Zero, Stewart and Feal discuss the hard-won victories behind their friendship and shared mission, the untold stories of the responders whose courage inspired a movement, and why the lessons of their persistence, moral conviction, and grassroots activism remain urgent today. Don’t miss this powerful conversation about service, resilience, and the extraordinary impact that determined individuals can have on history.
Daniel Radcliffe in Conversation With
Josh Horowitz: Every Brilliant Thing
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Tony Award winner Daniel Radcliffe (Merrily We Roll Along) joins Happy Sad Confused’s Josh Horowitz to talk about his new role on Broadway in the exhilarating and heartwarming interactive one-person show that has become a global phenomenon, Every Brilliant Thing. In the play, a man looks back at his young life as a child whose mother suffers from severe depression and at the list he makes to cheer her, naming all the things that make life worth living – ice cream, water fights, staying up past your bedtime. It’s a list that grows and deepens as he does, and one the audience helps bring to life each night. In a live taping of Horowitz’s Happy, Sad, Confused podcast, Radcliffe talks about his return to Broadway, what it’s like to go from the thoroughly collaborative Merrily to carrying a show singlehandedly and engaging directly with a new audience every night, the importance of shining a light on mental health struggles and of finding joy amidst pain, and more. And he reflects on the wondrous things big and small that make his own life worth living, sparked by this innovative and life-affirming theatrical celebration of being human.
Universities, Democracy,
and the American Future
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Since World War II, the nation’s universities have been symbols and drivers of American leadership at home and abroad — engines of discovery, economic growth, and democratic vitality. These very institutions and that very leadership are now under threat, facing political polarization, public skepticism, financial strain, and rapid technological transformation.
At a moment of profound change and consequence, can America’s research universities rise to meet the challenge? What role should they play in strengthening democratic values, fostering civil discourse, advancing innovation, and preparing the next generation of leaders? And what is at stake for the country if they succeed, or if they falter?
Join Harvard President Alan Garber and Wall Street Journal Editor in Chief Emma Tucker for a candid and wide-ranging conversation about the future of higher education, the pressures reshaping it, and the responsibility great institutions bear in shaping America’s path forward.
Carissa Véliz and Tim Wu:
Why AI is the New Oracle of Delphi
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Award-winning University of Oxford philosopher and technology scholar Carissa Véliz joins Tim Wu for a conversation about prophecy, AI, and the power of prediction — and Véliz’s new book, Prophecy: Prediction, Power, and the Fight for the Future, from Ancient Oracles to AI.
The ancient world had oracles and astrologers; today, we have computer scientists and AI. Modern predictions not only advise on war, crop output, and marriages, but algorithms also now determine whether we can get a loan, a job, an apartment, or an organ transplant. But when we cede ground to these predictions, Carissa Véliz believes that we lose control of our own lives. In this powerful, refreshing new look at the many ways prediction shapes everyday life, Véliz explores how putting too much stock in others’ predictions makes us vulnerable to con artists and self-deception.
Does more data always translate to more knowledge? Can AI see the future? Hear two brilliant thinkers as they explore the uncanny ways in which AI and other predictive technologies fit into a long history false prophecy and social control.
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Before Jewish Community Centers were called JCCs, they were YMHAs and YWHAs: Young Men’s and Young Women’s Hebrew Associations. Over a period of more than 150 years, the original YMHA evolved into the modern 92NY –a source of connection and uplift, a place to learn and grow, a welcoming Jewish home for all. We, the JCC of Salt Lake City, are thrilled to bring you ground-breaking intellectual and artistic programming live from New York City. The 92NY monthly series is free and open to the public.
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