Im going morning. The subcommittee on National Parks forest and public lands will now come to order. The subcommittee is meeting today to hear testimony on hr 2420, the National Museum of the american latino act. On Committee Rule for is, any Opening Statements and hearings are limited to the chair and ranking minority members. Therefore i ask unanimous consent that all of her members Opening Statements be made part of the hearing record if they are submitted to the course by 5 00 p. M. Today. The hearing no objections, so ordered. In addition to the broad interest in todays hearing i would like to ask unanimous consent and all interested members to join us and participate. And before we get started, i would like to take a point of personal privilege and have a moment of. [silence] for our friend, our colleague, defender of justice and equality, and humidity mr. Elijah cummings. [background sounds] thank you all so much. Thank you for attending the subcommittee on National Forest and p
Broadly, could the buildings of the future be made of more Sustainable Materials . Or is it simply far fetched. Olafur eliasson, welcome to hardtalk. You had a fairly unorthodox upbringing. Your parents moved to denmark, your mother was a seamstress, your father was a moved to denmark, your mother was a seamstress, yourfather was a cook, how did your early life and influence you in your work . |j how did your early life and influence you in your work . I spent my vacations in iceland, my father also worked as an artist, actually. My also worked as an artist, actually. My mother in denmark would make sure i would go to school and he would say that my mother had the more disciplined approach to life, but my father had the more hedonistic approach. Being in nature over the summer, playing around as a child, with my father, that really influenced me a lot. But also to be fair, my mother gave me a sense of purpose and direction, and made a great difference for me. You also took part in sort
Now on bbc news its hardtalk with zeinab badawi. Welcome to hardtalk from tate modern in london where my guest has a major exhibition. He is the Award Winning icelandic danish artist. He believes that art can change the world by, for instance, tackling Climate Change. This is one of his exhibits, a giant wall made of moss. The idea is to get people thinking differently about the environment, for instance, could buildings of the future be made more sustainably . Is this sort of thing visionary or far fetched . Olafur eliasson, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, zeinab. You had a fairly unorthodox upbringing. Your parents were extremely young when they had you, your mother 20, yourfather i9. Born in iceland, moved to denmark. Your mother was a seamstress, your father a cook. How did your early life influence you, in your work . Well, my father moved back to iceland and i would spend my vacations in iceland, running around in nature while he was painting. He also worked as an artist, actuall
The tv this weekend and every weekend on cspan2. Good evening everyone. Thank you for being here with us and im certain this will be a riveting conversation and easier to say that word than it is to spell it because i couldnt figure out to spell it. And president of the National Museum i welcome you here this evening for this book talk on ms. Alice Marie Johnsons book. I hope you had an opportunity to get it and if not, i believe we are selling it and she will be doing a book signing a couple things i wanted to mention for i introduce to you [inaudible] who will introduce ms. Johnson. You know, our hope here at the museum is that each time you come here you learn something. That will educate and inform and hopefully we are encouraging you to act in some way. I will not tell you what to do but we want to encourage you to do something. Every one of us has enough the exact same thing but all the people that we chronicle on the walls of the National Civil Rights Museum have and none of tho
Rights museum and with this book talk and to have an opportunity and she will be doing a book signing. And those that will introduce ms. Johnsonyo so each time you come here you learn something. That we are educating and informing and encouraging them to act in some way. Want to encourage you to do something every one of us has the exact same thing about we chronicle on the wall of the National Civil Rights Museum none of them had anything within themselves the differences they activated it. That you will have learned something. G that you will be encouraged to act. Last year 2018 the assassination of doctor king was commemorated in the title of the final book and to ask the question where do we go from here . With poverty and Shelby County in memphis over the last 50 years. And then to do the research and one of the elements focusing on incarceration. Know where do we hear doctor king talk about incarceration because it wasnt an issue. There was purity between white and black incarcer