World Science Festival Gala

• Event Title:World Science Festival Gala
• Event Description:The World Science Festival will hold its annual spring gala in Manhattan on May 29th, 2018. The World Science Festival gathers great minds in science and the arts to produce live and digital content that allows a broad general audience to engage with scientific discoveries. Through discussions, debates, theatrical works, interactive explorations, musical performances, intimate salons, and major outdoor experiences, the Festival takes science out of the laboratory and into the streets, parks, museums, galleries and premier performing arts venues of New York City and beyond. Hailed as a “new cultural institution” by the New York Times, the Festival has featured Alan Alda, Joshua Bell, Chuck Close, Glenn Close, Sylvia Earle, Philip Glass, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Stephen Hawking, John Hockenberry, Bill T. Jones, Charlie Kaufman, Mary-Claire King, Eric Lander, Richard Leakey, John Lithgow, Yo-Yo Ma, Bobby McFerrin, Oliver Sacks, Liev Schreiber, Anna Deavere Smith, Julie Taymor, E.O. Wilson, and Nobel Laureates David Baltimore, Steven Chu, David Gross, Eric Kandel, Dudley R. Herschbach, Roald Hoffmann, Leon Lederman, Paul Nurse, John C. Mather, Saul Perlmutter, William Phillips, Adam Riess, F. Sherwood Rowland, Horst Störmer, Jack W. Szostak, Gerard ‘t Hooft, Harold Varmus, James Watson, Steven Weinberg, Carl Wieman, and Frank Wilczek, among many others luminaries in science and the arts. The World Science Festival is a production of the World Science Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization headquartered in New York City.
• Time:6:00 PM
• Website: World Science Festival 
• Tickets from $1,000
• Jazz at Lincoln Center
  Time Warner Center, New York City
• Press Contact:Terri Coppersmith
  Email: tcoppersmith@worldsciencefestival.com
  Phone: 646-200-8817
• All contributions to the 2018 World Science Festival Gala will be matched through a generous challenge grant provided by the Simons Foundation.For more information, please contact Emma Tainter at etainter@worldsciencefestival.com or call 646.200.8827