Ring in the spooky season by rocking out at Scripps Presents' Fright Night, Battle of the Bands! The evening will kick off with a costume catwalk at 6pm, so break out your favorite costume and enjoy a selection of food trucks prior to the event. At 7pm catch performances by student bands Dinner with Me and Blemish […]
Join us in conversation with Anna Nora, Finnish composer and O'Brien visiting professor at Scripps College Anna Nora is a Finnish composer and choir educator with a special interest in choir methodology for children and youth and in choir conducting pedagogy. She works as an instructor in the Helsinki Conservatory of Music conducting children's and […]
Academy Award-Winning Filmmaker, Producer, and Author Matthew Cherry’s 2020 Oscar winning short film, Hair Love, was adapted into a picture book for Penguin Random House and immediately became a New York Times Bestseller and earned nominations for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work for Children and the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Picture […]
Join us in conversation with Megan Phelps-Roper, author of Unfollow: A Memoir Of Loving and Leaving The Westboro Baptist Church Megan Phelps-Roper has championed the power of empathetic dialogue to change minds and connect with those we may disagree with. Her inspiring, moving, and deeply human story of change is also the subject of her […]
Join us in conversation with the Award Winning Author, Podcast Host and Poet Laureate, Ada Limón. Ada Limón is the 24th Poet Laureate of The United States. She is the author of six books of poetry, including The Carrying, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. Her book Bright Dead Things was […]
Join us for an evening of conversation with Academy Award-Winning Writer, Director, and Playwright Aaron Sorkin Aaron Sorkin made his Broadway playwriting debut at the age of 28 with the military courtroom drama A Few Good Men, for which he received the John Gassner Award as Outstanding New American Playwright. Sorkin made the jump to […]
Dr. Jade Power-Sotomayor Dr. Jade Power-Sotomayor is a Cali-Rican educator, scholar and performer who works as Assistant Professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at UC San Diego. Her research interests include: Latinx theatre and performance, Dance Studies, nightlife, epistemologies of the body, feminist of color critique, bilingualism, and intercultural performance in the Caribbean […]
Join us in conversation with Founder and CEO of FEED, Lauren Bush Lauren Lauren Bush Lauren is the Founder and CEO of FEED, an impact-driven brand founded upon the belief that food is a universal human right. Every FEED product sold provides school meals to children through direct donations to on-the-ground partners. Since 2007, FEED […]
Join us in conversation with wellness advocate Jessamyn Stanley. Jessamyn Stanley is an award-winning yoga instructor, founder of The Underbelly, and author of Every Body Yoga and Yoke. She empowers her audience of 500k+ to break down barriers: both those that society has set and that they have set for themselves. Jessamyn's work in the […]
Join us in conversation with Ana Navarro, Political Contributor to CNN, Telemundo, and Co-Host of ABC’s The View. Ana Navarro is a well-known political strategist and anchor for CNN, CNN en Español, Telemundo, and co-host of ABC’s The View. The Miami New Times named her a “Republican power-consultant,” and the Tampa Bay Times called her […]
