OrientHarbor
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Theme: Human Kind

This event occurred on
September 17, 2017
Orient, New York
United States

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Poquatuck Hall
1160 Skippers Lane
Orient, New York, 11957
United States
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Speakers

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Chris Wedge

Chris is a film director, film producer, screenwriter, cartoonist and voice actor, best known for the films Ice Age, Robots, Epic, Rio, and Monster Trucks. He is a co-founder of the animation studio Blue Sky Studios and voices the character Scrat in the Ice Age franchise. In 1998 Chris won an Academy Award for writing and directing the short film, Bunny. He has BFA in film from SUNY Purchase and an MA in computer animation from The Ohio State University.

Dr. Xavier Amador

An internationally renowned clinical and forensic psychologist and leader in his field. His forensic cases include Theodore Kaczynski (Unabomber), Jared Loughner (Congresswoman Gabby Gifford shooting), and the 911 co-conspirators (Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detainees). His books, authoritative clinical research, worldwide speaking tours and extensive work in television news and entertainment make him truly unique among his peers. His expertise has been called upon by government, industry and the broadcast and print media where he has appeared as a frequent expert for CNN, ABC News, NBC News, NBC Today Show Fox News Channel, CBS 60 Minutes, New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Cosmo, Wall Street Journal and many other national and international news outlets. He is the Founder of the LEAP Institute and the nonprofit LEAP Foundation.

Leo Villareal

A visual artist whose work combines LED lights and encoded computer programming to create illuminated displays. His work focuses on stripping systems down to their essence to better understand the underlying structures governing how they work. He is interested in lowest common denominators such as pixels, or the zeros and ones, in binary code. The visual manifestation of the code in light is at the core of the artist’s interest. On January 30, 2016, Villareal inaugurated, The Bay Lights, a monumental 1.8-mile-long installation of 25,000 white LED lights on San Francisco’s Bay Bridge as a permanent installation.

Liana Gillooly

Liana is currently the outreach manager of the Arcview Group. Her background spans across anti-war and drug reform activism, event design and production, film production, artist representation, and art curation. As a passionate activist at Boston University, she was the president of the BU Anti-War Coalition, and spent a summer in the Middle East with the human rights watch group International Solidarity Movement. As an entrepreneur, she owned a visionary art gallery in Venice Beach, called Sananda Gallery. After some recent tragedies involving loved ones, Liana is now studying Death Midwifery and hoping to help people with her recently acquired knowledge.

Liana Werner-Gray

Liana is an advocate for alternative healing using a healthy diet & natural lifestyle. After healing herself of many negative health conditions including a stage 1 golf-ball size tumor and disorderly eating with junk food, Liana created “The Earth Diet” blog where she committed to eating only foods straight from nature for 365 days. The concept went viral and led to her traveling the world teaching about nutrition. Liana has written two worldwide best sellers “The Earth Diet” and “10-Mintue Recipes” appeared on television and radio. Through her book, she has helped people to lose excess weight and to improve and, in some cases, even entirely heal, conditions such as cancer, diabetes, addictions, depression, acne, heart disease, obesity, and more.

Mary Latham

Mary is a professional wedding and travel photographer. In 2009 she started the GrAttitude Project with a friend, collecting and distributing stories of random acts of kindness. She shared these stories in hopes of helping other people to find the goodness in humanity. Currently she is traveling the country collecting stories of human kindness from all 50 states while staying with strangers, to compile into a book for hospital waiting rooms. Mary hopes to prove that there is more good than bad in this world.

Robert Hanlon

Prior to retirement in 2012, Bob spent 23 years as a lawyer, specializing in intellectual property litigation, handling trademark, false advertising, copyright and patent cases. In previous lives, he was an elementary school teacher, a university administrator and the director of several different departments in special education for the New York City Board of Education. He also poured concrete, delivered payrolls, cars and newspapers and was a professional stained glass artist. Bob has served on the boards of a law school, a private foundation providing schooling and housing to autistic children and adults, and a residential co-op board. He has been a member of the Orient Association Board since 2012, and its president since 2014. He is also a commissioner for the Orient Fire District.

Rosa Ross

Rosa is a product/recipe developer, spokesperson, and restaurant consultant for marketing, advertising and public relations. Her unique multi-cultural background and training qualifies her to teach classes in French, Italian, Asian and fusion cooking. She has lived in Europe, Asia, South America and many parts of the United States. Rosa acquired her knowledge of cooking which began in Italy through her friendship with Marcella Hazan, who describes Rosa as ‘her first pupil.’ Later she studied with James Beard in his Greenwich Village home, with Diana Kennedy and Jacques Pepin. She is the author of many books and has appeared on network television and radio throughout the country. Until the end of last year, she was the chef/owner of Scrimshaw Restaurant on the North Fork of Long Island.

Tony Spiridakis

Tony is a writer, director and actor for film and television as well as co-founder of the Manhattan Film Institute. In his first screenplay, Queens Logic, Tony co-starred with Kevin Bacon, John Malkovich, Joe Mantegna and Jamie Lee Curtis. After this breakout, he was writing scripts for powerhouse producers Scott Rudin, Laura Ziskin, John Davis and Harvey Weinstein. Known for creating great roles for actors, Tony wrote for Academy Award winners Dustin Hoffman, Diane Keaton, Richard Dreyfuss, Timothy Hutton, Eddie Murphy, Chazz Palminteri and Giancarlo Giannini. He’s been a screenwriting mentor at the Hamptons Film Festival, taught film production at Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film. In 2009 Tony co-founded the Manhattan Film Institute, a boutique conservatory based in Greenport that nurtures aspirations of aspiring filmmakers and actors.

Organizing team

Liz
Gillooly

Organizer