Posted 21 Aug 2012 · Report post NYC Meeting - Junto:For those who are not familiar with it, Junto is a 30+ year old monthly discussion group in New York City. On 9/6/12, Gary Johnson will be speaking, as well as Richard Kostelanetz. This is an unusually exciting meeting, though a good time is had at them all. I hope you can come.------------From: nycjunto.org <info@nycjunto.org>Subject: Second speaker added to next Junto meetingDate: Tuesday, August 21, 2012, 8:34 AM NYCJUNTO.ORG A monthly meeting with a focus on libertarianism, Objectivism, and investing Second speaker added to next Junto meeting NYC Junto Newsletterwritten by Iris Bell on Aug 20, 2012—————————————————————————Contents* NEW Junto meeting September 6, TWO SPEAKERS* Upcoming Junto speakers through November* NYCjunto-discuss list* About this newsletter**************************************************Junto is a group that shares information,discusses current issues and presents speakersSECOND SPEAKER ADDED:8:00pm to 9:00pmGov. Gary JohnsonLibertarian Party candidate for PresidentHe’ll update us on his campaign and answer questions.9:00pm to 10:00pmRichard Kostelanetz The fall and rise of New York RockawaysThursday, September 6Admission Free -- No reservation necessary* We'll socialize from 7:00pm to 7:30pm.NOTE, many changes here:* People who want to make an announcement or introduce themselves should sign up on the sheet at the entrance table. * At 7:30pm the moderator, Gene Epstein, will call on people who signed up, in order. Each person will have up to 4 minutes to make their announcement, including taking comments and questions about it from the audience.* The first speaker will begin promptly at 8:00pm. The talk will be uninterrupted. People in the audience should take notes for questions and discussion afterward.* When the questions and discussions begins anyone in the audience can have 4 minutes for a discussion or rebuttal of the speaker’s points.* The second speaker will begin promptly at 9:00pm. The talk will be uninterrupted. People in the audience should take notes for questions and discussion afterward.* When the questions and discussions begins anyone in the audience can have 4 minutes for a discussion or rebuttal of the speaker's points.* The meeting will continue to 10:00pm or later.General Society Library, 20 West 44 St., between 5th and 6th Aves., NYCnear the Grand Central TerminalSubway: 4, 5, 6, S to Grand Central -- 42nd St. orB, D, F, 7 to 42nd Street -- Sixth Ave. at Bryant Park orA, C, E, N, Q, R, S, 1, 2, 3 to Times Square -- 42nd St.Bus: M1, M2, M3, M4, M5, M42, M98, M101, M102, M104, Q32Train: MTA Metro-North Railroad to Grand Central Car: Some private parking facilities in the area. Parking on side streets is metered, limited to specific days and times.Please note: * Discussions are intense, but polite. Participation by all attendees is highly encouraged.* Junto meets on the first Thursday of every month.8:00pm to 9:00pmGary Johnson, Libertarian Party candidate for President He's been an outspoken advocate for efficient government, balanced budgets, rational drug policy reform, protection of civil liberties, comprehensive tax reform, and personal freedom. As Governor of New Mexico, Johnson was known for his common sense business approach to governing. He eliminated New Mexico’s budget deficit, cut the rate of growth in stategovernment in half, and privatized half of the state prisons. Mark N. Axinn, Chair, Libertarian Party NY reports theparty submitted over 26,000 signatures for Gary Johnson and Jim Gray, in part because of the support from Junto members. Learn more about Johnson at:GaryJohnson2012.com9:00pm to 10:00pmRichard Kostelanetz writes: Having published in 2003 a book about a NYC community which I'd lived for three decades and knew well, I thought it appropriate to write another book, not quite a sequel, about the NYC community to which I once planned to move. If my SoHo was about the rise and fall of an artists' colony in whose history I fully participated, so this sequel would be about a decline that preceded my participation in its revival as NYC's premier beach town. As in its predecessor, I would combine objective description and history with personal experience, establishing complementary truths. If my SoHo memoir portrayed how an art world developed within NYC, but not quite of it, this book portrays a string of Atlantic beach towns, a group different from others along the East Coast in its incorporation into a great city. (Miami Beach, recall, is legally separate from Miami.) I suppose that if the development of NYC has proceeded differently over the past two centuries, NY could have become not just a port city but also a beach city, much like Rio de Janeiro, whose black and white mosaic path between the street and the beach became a popular promenade for everyone, even businessmen discussing deals that are then consummated when someone pulls out some paper or, nowadays, a laptop computer for recording details. If the libertarian theme of the first book held that an industrial slum was transformed not by any city planning but the spontaneous collaboration of hundreds of young people mostly artists who discovered that industrial spaces could be occupied, the theme of my Rockaways is that the central city undermined it in various ways after World War II. It is now coming back thanks to small entrepreneurs. I hope to show in conjunction with my talk to do a PowerPoint presentation of historic images from the Rockaways. It draws upon my Kindle ebook: " The Rockaways: The Fall and Rise of NYC's Beach Towns:"tiny.cc/Rockaways Richard Kostelanetz is a writer and artist. He often attends Junto. He's been a contributing/advisory editor of many arts journals. He's the author of over fifty books, among them are "Political Essays", "Thirty Years of Visible Writing", and "More On Innovative Music(ian)s". He's also written over three dozen booklets. He's edited and introduced over three dozen anthologies and many essays, reviews, poems, fiction pieces, experimental prose pieces,plays, scenarios, photographs, and numerical art items. In scores of publications and places, prominent and obscure around the world, he's created theatrical texts, one person concerts, texts for composers, choreography scores, one person exhibitions of prints, books, drawings, audiotapes, canvases, videotapes, photographs and had many retrospectives. He's done Hörspiel: extended audio art. He's also created ten films, hologram exhibitions and over a dozen extended features for radio, plus many lectures and presentations at institutions around the world. His individual entries on his work in several fields appear in various editions of Wikipedia, NNDB.com, Britannica.com, Who's Who in Hell, Postmodern Fiction, Contemporary Poets, Who's Who in America, Contemporary Novelists, Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in American Art, Directory of American Scholars, Advocates for Self-Government, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Who's Who in U.S. Writers, Editors, and Poets, Readers Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers, The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature, The Facts on File Companion to American Poetry, The Chronology of Webster's Dictionary of American Writers, The Facts on File Companion to 20th Century Poetry, Contemporary Jewish-American Dramatists and Poets, The HarperCollins Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature Individual entries on Richard's work in several fields appearin various editions of Readers Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers, Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature,Contemporary Poets, Contemporary Novelists, Postmodern Fiction, Webster's Dictionary of American Writers, The HarperCollins Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature, Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Directory of American Scholars, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in American Art, NNDB.com, and Britannica.com, among other distinguished directories. Otherwise, he survives in New York, where he was born, unemployed and thus overworked. Visit his site:tiny.cc/rKosti—————————————————————————Visit Junto's site for information on current and past speakers, read previous newsletters, to sign up for the Junto enewsletter: NYCjunto.com Visit Junto on Facebook: on.fb.me/JuntoNYC Follow Junto on Twitter (we thank Kevin Levine):twitter.com/NYCJunto—————————————————————————Junto focuses on libertarianism, Objectivism and investing.Our founder and host is Victor Niederhoffer. Visit his site at: DailySpeculations.com**************************************************Please em-ail the above text to your freedom loving friends who might be interested in Junto. Feel free to use the above text to promote Junto among libertarians, Objectivists and investors.—————————————————————————Come to Junto, meet these upcoming speakers:* October 4, Gary Hoover, read his bio:tiny.cc/HooverBio* Nov. 1, Greg Rehmke, program director Economic Thinking, programs for high school, homeschool & college. Visit his site: tiny.cc/gRehmke————————————————————————— NYCjunto-discuss list Junto members can discuss Junto speakers and other topics. You can read these posts at: yhoo.it/JuntoP To post to this list you need to be a member of it. Become a member at: yhoo.it/JuntoD or send an email to:NYCjunto-discuss-subscribe@yahoogroups.com————————————————————————— About Junto * Gene Epstein moderates Junto. He's the economics editor and books editor of Barron's, the weekly business magazine, author of "Econospinning: How to Read Between the Lines When the Media Manipulate the Numbers."* Iris Bell writes this e-newsletter.* Oleg Atbashian created NYCjunto.com. He also sends out this e-newsletter and cares for its email list.* Andy George helps with the sound system and supplies music.* Our founder and host is Victor Niederhoffer. Visit his site at: DailySpeculations.com* This e-newsletter comes out twice a month. You might get an occasional extra email about a timely event.* To subscribe to this newsletter put "Junto list" in the subject line, email your name & preferred email address to: info@nycjunto.org————————————————————————— Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
