Naomi Klein in Austin on October 3
The Forrest Four-Cast: September 29, 2019
At 7 pm on Thursday, October 3 at BookPeople (603 North Lamar), Andrea Valdez of The Texas Observer will talk to best-selling author Naomi Klein about her new book “On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal.”
This most current release pairs Klein’s impassioned writing on the consequences of climate change with new material on the staggeringly high stakes of our immediate political and economic choices.
With reports spanning from the ghostly Great Barrier Reef, to the annual smoke-choked skies of the Pacific Northwest, to post-hurricane Puerto Rico, to a Vatican attempting an unprecedented ecological conversion, “On Fire” makes the compelling case that we will rise to the existential challenge of climate change only if we are willing to transform the systems that produced this crisis.
Finally, learn more about our current ecological challenges at the new “Climate & Social Action” track at SXSW 2020. Content for this track will be announced via the SXSW website on Tuesday, October 22.
Innovation-Focused Events in Austin for the Week of September 30
Sept 30-Oct 1: ARTIFACT
Sept 30: Austin Music Producers Meet Up
Sept 30: Learn to Code: Loops & Logic
Sept 30: Leveling Up: Marketing for Small Businesses
Sept 30: Introduction to Coding: HTML & CSS
Oct 1: Capital Factory Accelerator Info Session
Oct 1: Intro to Fundraising in Texas
Oct 1: Austin Food Marketing Meet Up
Oct 1: Austin Startup Meet Up
Oct 1: Austin Big Data AI Meet Up
Oct 1: Introduction to Data Science
Oct 2: Healthcare Device and Data
Oct 2: Women in Film Meet Up
Oct 2: Global Startup Program Pitch Night
Oct 2–4: ComNet 19
Oct 3: Naomi Klein Book Reading
Oct 3: Techstars Impact Demo Day
Oct 3: Design Jam
Oct 3: How She Got There
Oct 3: Embedded Analytics with Tableau
Oct 3: Defense Innovation at Startup Speed
Oct 3: Farm & City Civic Social Club
Oct 4: Interpersonal Communication for a Better Workplace
Oct 4–6: Austin City Limits Festival, Weekend 1
Oct 5: Austin Coding Academy | October Graduation & Demo Day
More Upcoming Austin Innovation Events
Oct 7: Make Mother Earth Great Again
Oct 7–11: Digital Inclusion Week
Oct 9: ACG Lunch with Mike Hill of Upland Software
Oct 9: Accelerated Introduction to AI & Machine Learning
Oct 10: Social Impact Entrepreneurial Happy Hour
Oct 10: Branding Masterclass for Women with Erika Brechtel
Oct 10: Women, Wealth & Wisdom Workshop
Oct 11: Silverton Startup Breakfast for Female Founders Only
Oct 11–13: Austin City Limits Festival, Weekend 2
Oct 15: Latinx in Tech Summit
Oct 16: Cleo Wade Book Reading
Oct 16: Central Texas Wireless Association Conference
Oct 16: Quake Capital ATX 2019 Demo Day
Oct 16: Campfire Entrepreneur Team Building
Oct 17: October Austin Forum: The Evolution of Energy
Oct 17: MassChallenge Texas in Austin Awards Ceremony
Oct 22: Giant SXSW 2020 Content Announcement
Oct 23: DivInc Community Happy Hour hosted by MSTC
Oct 25: ATX Game Makers Meet Up
Oct 26–27: Texas Book Festival
Oct 29: Girlstart Game Changers Luncheon
Oct 29: Naturally Austin Pitch Slam 2019
Oct 29: Ryan Holiday Book Reading
Nov 4–8: Austin Design Week
Nov 6: SpaceATX
Nov 6: BYU Austin Tech Summit
Nov 13–14: Time Machine 2019
Nov 14: DivInc Demo Day
Nov 16–17: Cowboy Space Ball
Nov 19: InnoTech Austin
Nov 20: Invent & Innovate Awards
Dec 4: Business of Pride Gala
Jan 12: 2020 Austin Startup Games
March 13–21: SXSW 2020
April 17–19: 2020 Austin Reggae Festival
Hugh Forrest serves as Chief Programming Officer at SXSW, the world’s most unique gathering of creative professionals. He also tries to write at least four paragraphs per day on Medium. These posts often cover tech-related trends; other times they focus on books, pop culture, sports and other current events.
