“Keeping a Clean Shop in the Marketplace of Ideas: A Discussion of Journalistic Ethics.”

From 7 to 8:30 pm on Feb. 28th, HPR’s Beth-Ann Kozlovich, HPR Executive Talk Show Producer, will moderate a panel discussion on journalistic ethics with special guests Neal Conan (host of NPR’s Talk of the Nation), Civil Beat’s John Temple, the Star-Advertiser's Mike Gordon and Gerald Kato, Associate Professor of Journalism, UH Manoa, and Board member of Media Council Hawaii.
HPR will record the event for broadcast at a later date. The discussion, in the UH/Manoa School of Architecture auditorium, will be open to the public. Tickets $10, free to students with ID. Seating is limited. Purchase tickets by calling 955-8821 during regular business hours or online at brownpapertickets.com.   HPR thanks UH Manoa Outreach College for helping to make this event possible.

Neal Conan is coming to Hawaii in conjunction with a tour of a multi-media program called “First Person: Seeing America.”

FIRST PERSON: SEEING AMERICA –Fri Mar 2-MACC (Wailuku); Fri Mar 9-Kahilu (Waimea); Sat Mar 10-UH Hilo (Hilo). For additional details, contact each theatre directly.

Mar 3 • Sat • 8:00pm • Leeward Community College Theatre • Ticket prices range from $10 to $30. • Tickets are available on line at www.etickethawaii.com, by phone at 944-2697, or visit any UH Ticket outlet (Stan Sheriff Center, Rainbowtique stores, and the UH Mānoa Campus Center ticket office), service charges apply. At the door sales begin 1 hour before performance begins. For more information call 956-8246.

Ensemble Galilei, Photographs from the Metropolitan Museum of Art with actors Bill Pullman, Rob Nagle, Lily Knight, and with NPR host Neal Conan
                                                    
From its inception in 1990, Ensemble Galilei has redefined the boundaries of chamber music, created new work, seized opportunities for collaborative relationships and consistently pushed the envelope in a series of innovative projects that explore combinations of images, words, and music. With images by some of America’s finest photographers, and the poetry and prose of some of America’s greatest writers, the group’s ambitious new project is First Person: Seeing America.

Begin with the strength, diversity and depth of the photography collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art: photographs by Walker Evans, Edward Curtis, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Weegee and Thomas Eakins. Take those images and accompany them with the words of Langston Hughes, Carson McCullers, Damon Runyan, John Muir, Frederick Douglass, and others. The soundtrack is the evocative music of Ensemble Galilei – Bach, traditional music from Scotland and Ireland, and new compositions featuring fiddles, harp, viola da gamba, percussion, banjo, whistles and oboe.

Transcendent and soulful music winds around the text as high-resolution images are projected on a large screen in the center of the stage. Actor Bill Pullman and actress Lily Knight brilliantly bring people, events and places to life.

What people! The haunted faces of rural Americans as they struggle to survive the Dust Bowl, indelible portraits of Native Americans. The events that shaped a nation - the Civil War, the Great Depression, the immigrant experience. And what places – from the sidewalks of New York to the majesty of Yosemite. Great photographers captured it all – hardship, war and despair, and the gritty determination of extraordinary people in a magnificent land. This is what  these extraordinary photographers saw – First Person: Seeing America.

Actress Lily Knight appears on stage in Los Angeles and New York (Broadway and Off Broadway). Her film work includes roles in Changeling, Around the Bend, The Assassination of Richard Nixon, AI. She has appeared on over 50 television shows, including Big Love, Saving Grace, The Mentalist, Boston Legal, Weeds.

Neal Conan: Award-winning journalist Neal Conan is the host of Talk of the Nation, the national news-talk call-in show from NPR News, which reaches nearly 3 million listeners a week on more than 280 NPR member stations. A familiar voice on NPR for the past quarter century, Conan has served as NPR's Bureau Chief in both New York and London has served as executive producer of NPR's flagship evening newsmagazine, All Things Considered. He has toured with Ensemble Galilei giving the spoken word in collaborative programs since 2003.