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2010 World Science Festival Opening Night Gala Performance + + World Science Festival Founding Benefactors Honoring 230 West 41st Street Nevi York NY 10036 SIMONS FOUNDATION World information line W Unwiring- AIINFp P. Science telephone fax ,r c\ " Festival .....AviAvorldsciencefestivalcom JOHN TEM PL ETON FOUNDATION EFTA00730631 Stephen W. Hawking The World Science Festival Stephen W. Hawking is one of The World Science Festival, co- the world's foremost theoretical founded by Brian Greene and Tracy Opening Night Gala Performance physicists. His dramatic Day, is an unprecedented annual of the 2010 World Science Festival breakthroughs into the origin of celebration of imagination, ingenuity Honoring Professor Stephen W. Hawking the universe and the properties of and inventiveness, that takes black holes are among the most science out of the labors Featuring a Performing Arts Salute to Science revolutionary insights into the into the streets, theaters, nature of the cosmos since the work and public halls of New Yo k k of Albert Einstein. Until stepping making the esoteric understandable tarring Alan Alda, Elizabeth Alexander, Danny Burstein, Eldar Djangirov, down last October, Hawking was the and the familiar fascinating. Todd Ellison, David Hallberg, Rebecca Luker, Yo-Yo Ma, Kelli O'Hara, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics Tiler Peck, Emalie Savoy, Young People's Chorus of New York City, Silk Road at Cambridge University, a post The Festival's mission is to cultivate once held by Isaac Newton. To the and sustain a general public wider public, Hawking is known for informed by the content of science, And the World Premiere of his uncanny ability to communicate inspired by its wonder, convinced of Icarus at the Edge of Time complex theories in accessible its value, and prepared to engage mesmerizing musica a e • space, ime an a journey to the very language, notably through his book with its implications for the future. dge of understanding. A BriefHistory of Time, which spent Based on the book by Brian Greene 237 weeks on the London Sunday Music by Philip Glass Times bestseller list and sold more Icarus at the Edge of Time Narrative adapted by Brian Greene and David Henry Hwang than 10 million copies worldwide. Commissioned and Co-produced Film created and directed by Al and Al In presenting Professor Hawking the by World Science Festival (New Performance by the Orchestra of St. Luke's Presidential Medal of Freedom on York) and Southbank Centre n August 12, 2009, President Barack (London) with The Royal Society. °barna stated that "he's led us Co-commissioned by Associazione on a journey to the farthest and Festival della Scienza with the Wednesday, June 2, 2010 strangest reaches of the cosmos. Baltimore Symphony Orchestra In so doing, he has stirred our and Glasgow's Concert Halls Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, New York imagination and shown us the power Executive Producers: Gillian of the human spirit here on Earth." Moore, Southbank Centre, London Perfo in collaboration with The Royal pm Gala Reception Society; Tracy Day, World Science Produced in collaboration nco r e ming Festival, New York. RSVP Card Enclosed Cocktail Attire Forgala tickets and further information, please contact Mary Keating at or email EFTA00730632