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Past Centenary Activities Irvine, California
Friday, February 4, 2005: The Westin South Coast Plaza
Copyright © 2005 Ayn Rand Institute. All rights reserved. Reproduction or linking is strictly prohibited. This lecture—including the audience question and answer period that followed—is available on VHS video, audio CD and cassette from the Ayn Rand Bookstore.
Reception and Celebration Dinner 
Copyright © 2005 Leonard Peikoff. All rights reserved. Reproduction or linking is strictly prohibited. The full recording of the reception with Leonard Peikoff, including the audience Q & A, is available from the Ayn Rand Bookstore.
Sunday, February 6, 2005: The Westin South Coast Plaza
Wednesday, March 2, 2005: George Mason University—Fairfax Campus, Johnson Center, 3rd Floor, Meeting Room A
Saturday, April 23, 2005: Marriott East Side Sunday, April 24, 2005: Marriott East Side
San Diego Ayn Rand Centenary Lectures Session 1 "My personal life," says Ayn Rand, "is a postscript to my novels; it consists of the sentence: 'And I mean it.'" Adding to the material in his short biography, Ayn Rand, Mr. Britting presents new anecdotes that further illustrate how her personal values were enunciated in her philosophy and dramatized in her novels. The talk begins with a discussion of Ayn Rand's childhood literary values; then moves to early adulthood and her attempts to concretize her values in her longer fiction. The talk concludes with late adulthood, where, after successfully concretizing her philosophy in fiction, she begins public speaking in order to defend and elaborate her philosophy.(Originally delivered at the Irvine, California Centenary celebration, and later revised with substantial new material for the New York Centenary celebration.) Session 2 Ayn Rand once described her life as a race against time, a race that began when she decided at the age of nine to become a writer, and ended with the publication of Atlas Shrugged. This talk will cover some of the adventures that unfolded in her first period of residence in New York (1934-1943)—such as her public speeches, the productions of her plays, her correspondence with a British novelist, and her friendships with political allies—during a time when her most important writing goal was the planning and writing of The Fountainhead. (Originally delivered at the New York Centenary celebration.) Session 3 In the 1960s Ayn Rand prepared her "Musical Biography," a list of 17 favorite songs covering the years from 1911 (when she was six years old) to 1959. This "biography" uses the original recordings (most in their entirety) selected by Miss Rand from her collection. Michael Berliner adds historical commentary. Two encores complete this concert and look into the musical sense of life of Ayn Rand. (Originally delivered at both the Irvine, California and New York Centenary celebrations.) Los Angeles
For information on upcoming events and courses related to Ayn Rand and her philsophy, visit the Objectivist Conferences Web site at www.objectivistconferences.com.
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Wednesday, February 2, 2005: The Ayn Rand Institute
Listen to the full lecture (1 hr., 5 min.):
Saturday, February 5, 2005: The Westin South Coast Plaza
Thursday, July 7, 2005: ALOUD hosts ARI's Jeff Britting
