June’s Free Public
Events at Urban ReThink
Urban ReThink produces monthly Signature
Series of free, public events,
geared to connect and empower Orlando
residents.
The Urban ReThink
Signature Series of events is a monthly rotation of topical discussions, active
projects, and interactive presentations meant to connect and empower Orlando
residents. Many Signature Series events are live streamed through YouTube, with
videos available post-production online at www.urbanrethink.com. All events are
free to the public, with a suggested $5 per person donation to The Urban Think
Foundation.
Parcels: MFAs in Progress
Sunday, June 9 @ 7pm
Parcels: MFAs in
Progress is an Urban ReThink Signature Series event showcasing
the fiction, nonfiction, and poetry of the University of Central
Florida's Creative Writing MFA program members. Students, faculty, and alums
read works in progress, and attendees are offered the chance to
respond to a writing prompt. Parcels readers are current students, alumni, and
faculty of the University of Central Florida’s Masters of the Fine Arts in
Creative Writing program. The audience is open to anyone interested.
There Will Be Words
Tuesday, June 11 @ 7pm
There Will Be Words
brings Central Florida’s best writers of literary fiction and creative
nonfiction to the Urban ReThink stage for monthly readings. Presented by Burrow
Press and hosted by J. Bradley, There Will Be Words was named “The Best Revival
of Live Storytelling” by the Orlando Weekly.
Host J. Bradley invites
4 writers to perform pieces of literary fiction or creative nonfiction; June’s
readers are Whitney Hamrick, Stephanie R. Johnson, Susan Lilley, and Rachel
Leona Kapitan. Videos of past performances can be found at therewillbewords.com
Urban Thought: Hosted by Craig
Ustler, featuring Kathy Ramsberger, President, Dr. Phillips Center for the
Performing Arts
Thursday, June 13 @ 7:30am | tickets at
urbanthinkfoundation.org/urbanthought
Enjoy new ideas and fresh inspiration during a
casual community conversation with great city leaders in the Urban Think
Foundation’s new series, “Urban Thought: Community-minded Conversations with
Orlando’s Biggest Thinkers.” Host Craig
Ustler, currently serving as the Foundation’s Co-Chairman, discusses life and the
state of Orlando’s arts and cultural scene with
June’s Urban Thought guest, Kathy Ramsberger, President of the Dr. Phillips
Center for the Performing Arts.
The conversation will take place Thursday,
June 13 at Urban ReThink, at 625 E. Central Blvd., Orlando, FL 32801. Breakfast and networking begins at 7:45 a.m.
with the program itself starting at 8 a.m.
ReThinking the City
Tuesday June 25 @ 6:25pm
Each month, ReThinking
the City features a variety of local and national thought leaders to present
their thoughts on what makes a city livable. Each presenter gives a talk, then
opens the floor to discussion. ReThinking the City’s blog,
rethinkingthecity.com, and The ReThinking the City Radio Show, Thursdays at
9:00am on WPRK 91.5 FM, are the continued dialogues on these innovative
projects.
Converse: A Community Talk Show
Wednesday June 26 @ 6:25pm
An Urban ReThink
Signature Series event, Converse: A Spontaneous Talk Show sets out to prove
that everyone has a story worth telling. Host Mary Thompson Hunt leads the audience
through a series of questions, and talk show guests are pulled from the
audience, as interesting stories surface.
Converse was conceived
by Mary Thompson Hunt and Alexander Whittenberg and originally previewed at The
Studio @ 620 Theatre in St Pete, Florida. This interactive project is an
adaptation of Spalding Gray's 'Interviewing The Audience'.
Featuring local
presenters on site at Urban ReThink, and using live video streaming to bring in
remote speakers, Rethinking the City brings urban planning professionals,
students, artists, engineers, city dwellers, and those doing work to better a
city, directly to the stage. Presenting this month is Orlando local Pauline
Eaton, the coordinator for Orlando’s Main Street USA program, as well as Hesse
McGraw, the innovative curator for The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, joining
us by video stream from Omaha, Nebraska.
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About Urban ReThink: At Urban ReThink, enterprising professionals think, work,
collaborate, and create. By day, we are an affordable, shared office space,
serving as a home base for enterprising professionals who desire stimulation
and detest isolation. By night, we are a magnetic public living room offering a
kaleidoscope of talks, workshops, and gatherings. We are a place where ideas
are born, work is done, and people connect to do great things for great
reasons.
Urban ReThink is part
of the Urban Think Foundation, a 501c3 nonprofit organization. The programs of
the Urban Think Foundation are funded in part by United Arts of Central
Florida, State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs
and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture, Walt Disney World, and the Downtown
Orlando Development Board.
