Dec
5
1:00am
Jane Fonda & Chelsea Clinton in Conversation
By Montclair Literary Festival
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Succeed2gether’s 2021 Montclair Literary Festival is thrilled to announce its kick-off event, a remarkable conversation between JANE FONDA and CHELSEA CLINTON on Friday, December 4, 2020at 8 p.m. They will discuss Ms. Fonda’s newest book, What Can I Do? My Path from Climate Despair to Action, with a Q&A to follow.
Tickets can be bought via our ticketing platform here.
Three ticket options are available:
- $35 includes Ms. Fonda's What Can I Do?
- $65 includes Ms. Fonda's What Can I Do? AND Ms. Clinton's The Book of Gutsy Women
- $150 includes SIGNED copies of Ms. Fonda's What Can I Do? AND Ms. Clinton'sThe Book of Gutsy Women
All tickets also include a $10 Amanti Vino gift certificate, valid towards wine purchase of $30 or more; can't be combined with any other discount (including items on sale or case discounts); expires 12/31/2020.
Books can be picked up at Festival partner watchung booksellers. or shipped to your home address (extra charge applies).
This event is a fundraiser for Montclair-based 501(c) non-profit Succeed2gether, which offers after-school one-on-one tutoring and enrichment classes with the aim of closing the education opportunity gap in Essex County. You can read more about Succeed2gether and the festival at www.succeed2gether.org.
Jane Fonda is a two-time Academy Award-winning actress, author, activist, and fitness guru. Her career has spanned over 50 years, accumulating a body of film work that includes over 45 films and crucial work on behalf of political causes such as women’s rights, Native Americans, and the environment. She is a seven-time Golden Globe® winner, Honorary Palme d’Or honoree, 2014 AFI Life Achievement Award winner, and the 2019 recipient of the Stanley Kubrick Excellence in Film Award as part of BAFTA’s Britannia Awards.
Fonda is currently in production for the seventh and final season of Grace & Frankie, which will be Netflix’s longest running original series. It is for her work on the series that she received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series in 2017. She was last seen on the big screen in Paramount’s comedy, Book Club in which she starred alongside Diane Keaton, Mary Steenburgen, and Candice Bergen. Fonda also premiered Jane Fonda in Five Acts, a documentary for HBO chronicling her life and activism, at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. The documentary received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special in 2019. Jane celebrated her 80th birthday by raising $1 million for each of her nonprofits, Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Power & Potential and The Women’s Media Center.
Currently, Jane is leading the charge on Fire Drill Fridays, a national movement to protest government inaction on climate change. Her latest book, What Can I Do? My Path From Climate Despair To Action, details her personal journey with the movement and provides solutions for communities to combat the climate crisis, was released on September 8.
Chelsea Clinton, as vice chair of the Clinton Foundation, works alongside the Foundation’s leadership and partners to help create economic opportunity, improve public health, and inspire civic engagement and service across the United States and around the world. In particular, Chelsea focuses on promoting early brain and language development through the Too Small to Fail initiative, and uplifting/empowering female entrepreneurs and women-led businesses around the world through initiatives like the Caribbean-focused Women in Renewable Energy (WIRE) Network. She also serves on the boards of the Clinton Health Access Initiative and the Alliance for a Healthier Generation.
In addition to her Foundation work, Chelsea also teaches at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and has written several books for young readers, including the #1 New York Timesbestselling She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World as well as She Persisted Around the World, She Persisted in Sports, Start Now! You Can Make a Difference; Don’t Let Them Disappear; and It’s Your World: Get Informed, Get Inspired & Get Going. She is also the co-author of The Book of Gutsy Women and Grandma’s Gardens with her mom Hillary Clinton and of Governing Global Health: Who Runs the World and Why? with Devi Sridhar.
Chelsea holds a Bachelor of Arts from Stanford, a Master of Public Health from Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health, and both a Master of Philosophy and a Doctorate in international relations from Oxford University. She lives with her husband Marc, their children Charlotte, Aidan and Jasper, and dog Soren in New York City.
Thank you to Festival sponsors:
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The Silver Family Foundation
Mona Jha & John Ashbrook
Suna Chang & Michael Potenza
Kenneth Maiman & Lee Heh Margolies
June Zimmerman & Bela Schwartz
David & Melissa Deutsch
Liza Cohn& Bill Wallach
Carolyn Gould
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Montclair Literary Festival
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