Creating / Bridging 

Alan Lightman and Jeff Lieberman

 Wednesday, May 13, 2015, 6-6:45 pm
 Reception: 6:50 - 7:15 pm

Mr g performance: 7:30 pm

In partnership with Catalyst Collaborative @ MIT and Central Square Theater

 Central Square Theater, 450 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139

To quote Albert Einstein: "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand wrapped in awe, is as good as dead -his eyes are closed."

 As a prelude to the performance of Mr g, Catalyst Conversations was very pleased to be presenting a program with the Central Square Theater. 

Novelist, physicist, and author of Mr g Alan Lightman and artist/scientist Jeff Lieberman engaged in a lively conversation, discussing among many things the role that art may have in bridging the dialogue between science and religion. Through the lens of their respective interests and projects, which they experience both as makers and thinkers, their talk was guided by questions. One such question was looking at the aims of the sciences and the arts—how they are similar and how they depart from each other.

 Image: Breaking Wave, Jeff Lieberman, installed at Biogen, Cambridge, MA. 2014