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2014 -2015 Cary Lecture Series AN ANNUAL SERIES OF FREE LECTURES IN LEXINGTON Saturdays at 8pm The Committee: Robert Russman Halperin, Susan Emanuel, Rita Goldberg, Van Seaskoles Website: http :l /carylectureseries.org/ Clip Ticket For Bach Event "No Rest for the Wicked: The Author of Wicked on Reading, Writing, and Broadway" with Gregory Maguire Gregory Maguire is the best- selling author of Wicked, the novel behind the blockbuster Broadway musical. He will discuss the Oz books of his childhood as an inspiration for his writing life (including the four -book series The Wicked Years), and for his lifelong concern for children and lit - erary..He lives in Concord, and has been a guest author in the Lexington Public Schools, a speak- er on NPR, and a contributor to the Tunes Book Review. Maguire is also the author, most recent - ly, of Egg d' Spoon, a novel set in Tsarist Russia and featuring another notorious witch — BabaYaga. Cosponsored by Cary Memorial Library. Clarke Middle School • SATURDAY, MARCH 7TH, 2015 — 8:00PM "A Tale for Our Times: The Reasons for Climate Gridlod?" with Susan Solomon Public awareness of global warming has evolved greatly, and deniers' voices are dwindling. Susan Solomon, Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate Science at MIT and member of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), will help us to understand the science of climate change. She will also offer insights an why it has been so difficult to reach internation- al agreements to address this urgent challenge. Professor Solomon will draw parallels between - the current gridlock on climate change and the success of policy on ozone depletion (the Montreal Protocol). Cosponsored by Lexington Global 'Warming Action Coalition. Clarke Middle School • SATURDAY, DECEMBER GTH, 2014 AT 8 :00 PM "The Bow and the Brush An.Exploration of Music and Painting".withYehuda Hanani Yehuda Hanani, a virtuoso cellist, will consider the relationship between painting and music, two non - verbal arts with parallel histories that mirror one another in many ways. Mr. Hanani will play the cello as well as lecture. He has performed with countless orchestras and groups around the world and teaches master classes internationally, as well as at the University of Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, where he is Professor of Cello. He is based in Great Barrington, MA, performing at Tanglewood when he's not traveling. He directs program- ming for The Mahaiwe Center's Close Encounters with Music. Clarke Middle School • SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8TH, 2014 at 8 :00 PM 'Raising-Your Digital Native: Parenting in.aWorld "of Screens with Michael Rich Dr. Michael Rich, Associate Professor at the Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health, is the world's first "rnediatrician." As Director of the Center on Media and Child Health at Boston Children's Hospital, Dr. Rich combines his creative experience as a filmmaker with rigorous scientific evidence about the powerful sosidve and negative effects of media to advise pediatricians and parents on how to use media in ways that optimize child development. Dr. Rich has developed media -based research methodologies and authored numerous papers and policy statements, testified to the United States Congress, and makes regular national press appearances. Cosponsored by League of Women Voters of Lexington. Clarke Middle School • SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25th, 2014 at 8 :00 PM