2014–2015 SEASON Engage in lively conversations with our guest speakers! September 28 ALBERT PALEY Sculptor In a conversation with fellow artist Roger Remington, world-renown Rochester sculptor Albert Paley takes us on a journey through his creative process, sharing his insights about creativity as “a fundamental human condition.” November 2 ROBERT J. SAWYER Futurist & Writer January 25 EVAN DAWSON Author and Radio Host Evan Dawson, author of the award-winning Summer In A Glass, will engage us in a lively conversation as moderator Paul Brock of FLCC’s viticulture program teases tales from this enthralling storyteller. Talking with Calvin Uzelmeier of the Rochester Museum and Science Center, awardwinning author Rob Sawyer will captivate us with his vision of our future here on Earth and in other places in the universe. Visit gmeforum.org for speakers’ bios, links to their websites, online ticketing, directions and more. About George M. Ewing A s Editor and Publisher of Messenger Post Newspapers, George M. Ewing believed that the newspaper should not only record the local events of the day, but also serve as a window to the world beyond Ontario County. Over the years, he and his wife traveled the globe, and shared with readers their observations, photographs and interviews with many of the world’s key decision makers. These features discussed the economic, social, cultural and political forces in play in these locales, and their potential impact here at home. GME Forum Committee Caroline Delavan, President Anna Polimeni, Treasurer Paul Bringewatt Meg LaDouce Ewing Barbara Russell Hamlin Kathleen Hendrix Lindsay Morrow-Lilly Frieda O’Hanlon John Parkhurst Amy Pauley Andy Thomas A series of three events each season set in the auditorium on the campus of Finger Lakes Community College, the GME Forum honors the legacy of George M. Ewing. The events are designed to enlighten, entertain and engage the community through conversations with an array of celebrated guests. The GME Forum serves as a testament to a man whose career was committed to educated discourse and promotion of the arts. F eaturing a host of speakers with rare combinations of expertise, talent, accomplishments and potential, the George M. Ewing Canandaigua Forum is your ticket to an afternoon of thought provoking dialogue. We hope you’ll join us. The mission of the GME Forum is to engage people in thoughtful, stimulating and informed discourse on intellectual and cultural topics of regional, national and world interest. The Forum provides presentations by both emerging voices and leading figures in their fields to inspire dialogue within the community. The George M. Ewing Canandaigua Forum is funded in part with an endowment from the Ewing Family, with additional support from Become a Sponsor of the George M. Ewing Canandaigua Forum by making a taxdeductible gift to FLACE/GME Forum. Please contact Barbara Russell Hamlin at 585-396-3191 or Caroline Delavan at 585-394-0896 for more information. Your support will help offset the cost of bringing celebrated speakers to Canandaigua. Sunday, September 28, 2014, 4 p.m. ALBERT PALEY SCULPTOR Made possible with support from an Anonymous donor Moderator: R. Roger Remington, Vignelli Distinguished Professor of Design, RIT A lbert Paley’s work has been described as “simultaneously radical and classical, sensual and austere, immediately appealing and yet infinitely complicated” (NY Times). Originally a jewelry designer, Paley is the first metal sculptor to receive the American Institute of Architects’ Lifetime Achievement Award, the AIA’s highest award to a non-architect. Works by Albert Paley can be found in the permanent collections of many major museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New One of 13 sculptures York, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the included in Paley on Park Avenue, June– Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, and the Victoria November 2013. and Albert Museum in London, as well as on the North Bloomfield Road campus of Constellation Brands. Mr. Paley, Distinguished Professor, holds an Endowed Chair at the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences at Rochester Institute of Technology and maintains his studio in Rochester. In a conversation with Roger Remington, Vignelli Distinguished Professor of Design at RIT, Mr. Paley will share his thoughts about creativity “as a fundamental human condition,” and will talk about his own creative process. Visit gmeForum.org Sunday, November 2, 2014, 4 p.m. (Photo by Carolyn Clink) ROBERT J. SAWYER FUTURIST & WRITER Made possible with major funding from Lyons National Bank Moderator: Calvin Uzelmeier, Rochester Museum & Science Center Director of Education I n 1949, George Orwell envisioned a world where ordinary citizens are under constant surveillance – even in their own homes – by the government through telescreens (1984). In 2014, drones the size of large breadboxes, some carrying tiny movie cameras capable of recording everything in sight, are on the way to becoming commonplace, while Congress debates the issue of how much government surveillance of private emails and cell phones is too much. By 2020, power will be generated with no carbon, no pollution and scant radioactive waste by a machine called ITER, located in the south of France, that will achieve temperatures exceeding two hundred million degrees Celsius, more than ten times that of the sun at its core. It’s true. You can Google it. What else is out there? When will it be here? How will we react? Part philosopher, a thorough technophile, and winner of the Nebula (1996) and Hugo (2003) Awards for science fiction, Robert J. Sawyer will captivate us with his thoughts on these and other questions in a conversation with RMSC Education Director Calvin Uzelmeier titled “So Bright it Glows: The Wonderful Future.” Mr. Sawyer penned several of his novels while sitting on a dock at Canandaigua Lake. The Terminal Experiment and WWW.Wake are titles chosen for a Community Read during the month of October. For more information visit gmeForum.org or WoodLibrary.org Events are held in the auditorium at Finger Lakes Community College. The 2014–2015 Season is made possible with funding from Ferris Hills at West Lake Sunday, January 25, 2015, 4 p.m. EVAN DAWSON AUTHOR & RADIO HOST Moderator: Paul Brock, FLCC Asst. Professor of Viticulture & Co-owner of Silver Thread Vineyard, Lodi E van Dawson put the Finger Lakes on the world wine map with Summer in a Glass, his book about “the coming of age of winemaking in the Finger Lakes” that won “International Wine Book of the Year” at the Louis Roederer Wine Writing Awards in London in 2012. These days, Mr. Dawson is making a(nother) name for himself as the perceptive, probing host of Connections with Evan Dawson, a daily radio program on WXXI that replaced the long-running 1370 Connection hosted by Bob Smith. Mr. Dawson has deftly transferred to Evan Dawson live talk radio his skills as “an empathetic listener and “brings to life understated observer who weaves together the various – fires your strands (of his subject) with great skill and insight” imagination, (Eric Asimov, wine writer for the New York Times), really – the digging into subjects as diverse as Seinfeld, artificial triumphs, superintelligence, Shakespeare, child immigrants, travails and intimate personal extreme spelunking, medical marijuana and ecofriendly road-paving. decisions that Join us as Paul Brock teases tales from this are the real ingredients of “storyteller of grace, insight and affection” (Matt Kramer, fine wine.” Wine Spectator columnist). –Matt Kramer, Wine Spectator ORDER FORM To order season or single event tickets, please complete this order form and mail to: GME Forum P.O. Box 12, Canandaigua, NY 14424 or call Amy Pauley at 585-785-1541 or go online to gmeforum.org All student tickets are free with valid ID. SEASON _________ (# sets) @ $40 + $2.60 CC fee* SINGLE EVENT ALBERT PALEY Sunday, September 28, 2014, 4 p.m. _________ (# tickets) @ $15 ea + $1.60 CC fee* ROBERT J. 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