The Epcor Centre for the Performing Arts is presenting National Geographic LIVE! This event showcases fascinating and incredible speakers- National Geographic explorers, adventurers, photographers and scientists that have their journeys captured. Breath-taking and beautiful images and videos will allow YOU to become enveloped into our amazing and natural world, as each speaker shares their National Geographic experience with the audience.
Experience pure exhilaration now by discovering what each speaker has shared with the world!
January 17: Ocean Soul with Brian Skerry
Voyage deep into and across oceans with brilliant photographer Brian Skerry! His magnificent and exhilarating journey explores the hidden world under the foamy waves. His pictures story telling of the mysteries of inky depths. His feature photography brings you up close and personal with animals that live in extreme conditions-beneath Arctic ice or in predator-infested waters- Skerry’s incredible skill allows him to be able capture these incredible deep sea creatures with such imitate detail. National Geographic Books will publish Ocean Soul, his photography taking his readers across the vast beauty of the glacial waters of the North Atlantic to the central Pacific.
February 7: Deep Ancestry with Spencer Wells
An epic journey of enormousness proportions, take an riveting journey retracing humanity’s first steps from Africa, to the people of Asia, Europe, and Americas. Spencer Wells has led a team of scientist to take thousands of DNA samples to explore and create an intricate and genetically-based map on human migration and answers some of life’s biggest questions: where did we come from, and how did we get here today?
March 13: A Camera, Two Kids and a Camel with Annie Griffiths
An amazing National Geographic photographer, this speaker’s series showcases a true pioneer of international travel, all thewhile with two kids to places such as the ruins of Petra or the Galápagos Islands. Being a mother didn’t slow down her career and Annie Griffith empowers women to pursue their passions.
April 25: On expedition with Mattias Klum
An awe-inspiring natural history photographer will guide you through a wondrous and breath taking perspective of some of the natural wonders of the world- “he Okavango Delta, Iceland’s glaciers and the rainforests of Southeast Asia.” It is through Klum’s documentary storytelling of our planet’s diversity that had earned him a medal from the King of Sweden, his dynamic photography and heartfelt story telling echoes an encouraging message of hope- to lessen our footprint and consider the future legacy we will we leave behind.
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Student programs are available! Tickets for matinees are only $10 for students! Visit this website to learn about the exciting opportunities for cross curricular connections, to register, and for more information!
