Lecture Series with Patrick Gorham

New York, NY (January 30, 2012) - Researcher, writer, and photographer Patrick Gorham concludes this month's Explorers Club Lecture Series with his talk on Bala Ba, a Malinke (southern Guinea) traditional instrument of spiritual and historical significance, which was created in the 1500's by the descendants of Ballafasseke Kouyate. From the late sixteenth through the early nineteenth century, this instrument was utilized in praise of elite farming masters, hunters, blacksmiths, and powerful chiefs of the region.

January 30th, Monday
Check-In at 6pm, 7pm Start
Reservation Notes: Free for Explorers Club members; $20 for members of the public; $5 for students with ID. Reservations are suggested on a first-come first-served basis. Please call 212.628.8383, or send your email to reservations@explorers.org.



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more than just dance.
more than just theatre.
more than just a film.


one of the best things my eyeballs have ever seen.

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Lecture Series with Richard Hyman: FROGMEN

New York, NY (January 23, 2012) - This presentation from Richard Hyman will be an homage to Jacques Costeau, a man he considered as one of the greatest explorers and visionaries of all time - a man who created over 100 films, received two Academy Awards and forty Emmy nominations, and invented the aqua lung underwater breathing apparatus.

January 23rd, Monday
Check-In at 6pm, 7pm Start
Reservation Notes: Free for Explorers Club members; $20 for members of the public; $5 for students with ID. Reservations are suggested on a first-come first-served basis. Please call 212.628.8383, or send your email to reservations@explorers.org.
 

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Lecture Series with John Vincent Bellezza

New York, NY (January 9, 2012) - The Explorers Club launches the new year with a presentation from John Vincent Bellezza, the first foreigner to circumnavigate the Celestial Lake in Tibet, and the first non-Tibetan to reach all the geographic and ritual sources of the fabled four rivers (Indus, Brahmputra, Sutlej and Karnali) that arise in south western Tibet in 1999 - five and a half month long expedition. In this lecture, Bellezza will share his experiences in Zhang Zhung, the highest altitude civilization to have taken root in the ancient world 3,000 years ago. Its sophisticated Metal Age way of life displaced the last of the Stone Age on Tibet's high plateaus. With its extensive network of citadels and necropolises, Zhang Zhung held sway until the advent of Buddhism in the seventh century CE, forming the bedrock of many Tibetan customs and tradition practiced to this day.

January 9th, Monday
Check -In at 6pm, 7pm Start

Reservation Notes: Free for Explorers Club Members; $20 for members of the public; $5 for students with ID. Reservations are suggested on a first-come first-served basis. Please call 212.628.8383 send your email to reservations@explorers.org.

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