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The only Canadian to ever win a Latin Grammy, Nelly Furtado first gained fame with her debut album, “Whoa Nelly!,” which earned her a Grammy for best female pop vocal performance in 2002. Since then, she’s released four studio albums and earned numerous awards and accolades, including 10 Juno Awards, three MuchMusic Video Awards and a star on Canada’s Walk of Fame. Hear more about the singer’s illustrious career and her recent work to date, including her performance as one of the artists in David Byrne’s “Contemporary Color” at the Luminato Festival. Interviewed by Ben Sisario, reporter, music industry, The New York Times.

Celebrated film, television and theater actress and producer. Winner of four Golden Globe, three SAG and two Emmy Awards. Vice chairman of the New York City Ballet. Businesswoman and designer. Member of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. In addition to these and many more roles, Sarah Jessica Parker is debuting in a new one as executive producer and star of the new HBO original series “Divorce,” a dark comedy about a marriage gone off the tracks, premiering October 9 — more than a decade after the finale of her long–lived HBO hit “Sex and the City.” Don’t miss this opportunity to hear her talk about her work and the new HBO series with New York Times reporter Patricia Cohen.

Join us for this discussion on design and modern creativity with Studio 54 co-creator and internationally recognized entrepreneur Ian Schrager, and the award-winning designers behind Roman and Williams, Robin Standefer and Stephen Alesch. Schrager’s groundbreaking concepts, including PUBLIC and the EDITION brand, have set industry standards that have revolutionized the entertainment, residential and hospitality industries. Equally prolific and revered for its innovative interiors, Roman and Williams is responsible for some of the world’s most iconic establishments including the Ace Hotel New York, the Boom Boom Room and The Standard, High Line. Set to open in early 2020 is its redesign of the British Galleries at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Join T: The New York Times Style Magazine’s design editor Tom Delavan as he moderates a conversation about breaking creative boundaries, and the next big ideas in modern design and the world of interiors.

Produced in collaboration with NYCxDESIGN.

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Don’t miss this crucial conversation with former Vice President and climate change activist Al Gore on how far the battle to halt climate change has come — and why he thinks the momentum is unstoppable. President Trump’s recent announcement that the United States would withdraw from the Paris climate accord was a major setback in the fight against the global climate crisis. Now more than ever, it’s up to the people to continue the energy revolution. Gore has become a uniquely post–political figure, pursuing ideas larger than any party or office. In his upcoming film "An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power" he continues his tireless fight, traveling around the world training an army of climate champions and influencing international climate policy.

Don’t miss this exciting opportunity to spend an evening with one of the music industry’s brightest stars — Grammy-, Academy Award- and Golden Globe-winning musician, D.J., songwriter and producer Mark Ronson. In conversation with The New York Times pop music critic Jon Caramanica, the duo will discuss Ronson’s creative process, prolific career (including his latest solo album “Late Night Feelings”), and his collaborations with some of music’s biggest names, including Amy Winehouse, Lady Gaga, Adele, Justin Timberlake, Miley Cyrus and Bruno Mars.

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Join us for a night of music and conversation with Grammy, Tony and Emmy nominated singer, songwriter, and actress Sara Bareilles. Her upcoming album, entitled “Amidst The Chaos” (out on April 5th) spotlights Bareilles’s voice as a singer and storyteller like never before. Don’t miss this exciting opportunity to spend an evening with one of today’s most prolific and multidimensional stage, screen and musical artists as she discusses her creative process and latest collaboration with legendary Academy Award-winning producer T Bone Burnett.

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Sopan Dep, New York Times culture reporter, moderates an intimate and engaging conversation with “The Daily Show” alumnus and Peabody Award-winning comic Hasan Minhaj, who is receiving rave reviews for his Netflix original series “Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj.” Minhaj brings an incisive and nuanced perspective to global news, politics and culture in his unique comedy series, exploring the modern cultural and political landscape with depth and sincerity. In each weekly episode, he uses his unique comedic voice and storytelling skill to investigate the larger trends shaping our fragmented world.

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Somini Sengupta, international climate reporter for The New York Times, convenes a conversation exploring the global ramifications of climate change and the urgent challenge facing the planet.

Taking place during the U.N. Climate Summit, which will bring together world leaders to advance climate action at the highest levels, the panel features leading voices in the search for solutions to the rising temperatures, devastating storms and increased flooding making headlines around the globe.

They include Dr. Kate Marvel, whose groundbreaking research investigates climate change using satellite observations and computer models; Kumi Naidoo of Amnesty International, who argues that human rights and climate change are inextricably linked; and New York City student Alexandria Villaseñor, who began her own weekly school strike for climate in front of the U.N. last December and helped mobilize the first-ever global youth climate strike this spring.

Don’t miss this thought-provoking conversation on the most challenging issue of our time.

Join us for an evening with Bret Easton Ellis, the critically acclaimed author of “Less Than Zero” and “American Psycho.” Don’t miss this exciting opportunity to hear Ellis discuss his first work of nonfiction “White,” described as an incendiary polemic about this young century’s failings, e-driven and otherwise, and at once an example, definition, and defense of what “freedom of speech” truly means. In White, Ellis eviscerates the perceived good that the social-media age has wrought, starting with the dangerous cult of likability.

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Three–time Tony® Award–nominated director Michael Greif brought the groundbreaking musicals “Rent” and “Next to Normal” to The Great White Way, and now he’s done it again with the upcoming Broadway premiere of the award–winning show “Dear Evan Hansen.” Join New York Times theater editor Scott Heller with the director and hear musical performances celebrating 20 years of his hits, featuring award–winning actors of stage and screen Ben Platt, Rachel Bay Jones, Aaron Tveit, Jennifer Damiano and Adam Chanler–Berat, accompanied by Alex Lacamoire, who won the 2016 Tony for his work on Lin–Manuel Miranda’s “Hamilton.”

An advance screening of the powerful new Hulu documentary “Crime + Punishment,” winner of a special jury award for social impact filmmaking at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The film chronicles the N.Y.P.D. 12, a group of 12 minority cops who blew the whistle on an alleged quota system that disproportionately targets minority neighborhoods for arrests and court summonses. Following the screening, New York Times Op-Ed columnist Charles Blow — who has written extensively on racial disparities in criminal justice — will discuss the film and the N.Y.P.D. 12’s class-action lawsuit against New York City and the New York Police Department with director Stephen Maing, lead N.Y.P.D. 12 plaintiff Edwin Raymond, N.Y.P.D. 12 lawyer Emeka Nwokoro and private investigator Manuel Gomez.

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