Presented by Mesa Arts Center in partnership with National Geographic
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Subscribe to our Nat Geo Live Series 2024-2025, and you'll experience five of National Geographic's top photographers, filmmakers and adventurers as they share behind-the-scenes stories live onstage. Reserve the best seats today!
Andy Mann | Filmmaker & Photographer
Oct 9 | 7:30 PM
Filmmaker and photographer Andy Mann combines his passions with purpose as a voice for the world’s ocean, following scientists to some of the most extreme locations to make imagery that can inspire change. His journey from rock climber to ocean storyteller involves some remarkable detours and misadventures that prove that field science can be every bit as thrilling as the climbing adventures of his past. He has dived alongside crocodiles, sperm whales, and sharks and survived near misses with icebergs — all in pursuit of his goal: to reveal Earth’s incredible ocean environments and advocate for their protection.
Nalini Nadkarni | Tree Canopy Ecologist
Nov 6 | 7:30 PM
Throughout human history, trees have provided our most important sources of sustenance, protection, and wonder. Nalini Nadkarni, a tree canopy ecologist, has spent four decades dangling among the branches to study the ways that forests inform our daily lives. Climb into the clouds to experience the magnificent wildlife and incredible science happening in the vast, hidden worlds suspended above our heads.
Babak Tafreshi | Photojournalist & Cinematographer
Jan 22 | 7:30 PM
Photographer Babak Tafreshi has spent his career documenting the unbelievable beauty of the night sky and working to connect people through the shared experience of simply looking up. From the Milky Way to the animals that come out after dark here on Earth, experience visual stories of wildlife, humanity, and the cosmos.
Dr. Heather Lynch | Ecologist & Biologist
Feb 19 | 7:30 PM
Antarctica’s name alone conjures imagery of the harshest environment on Earth, but it is more than its monochromatic color scheme of snow and ice. Meet the many species of penguins that waddle and swim through the freezing water, along with an abundance of other life, on a journey south with quantitative ecologist Heather Lynch.
Tracy Drain | Flight Systems Engineer
Mar 26 | 7:30 PM
Discover the marvels of our cosmic backyard through the eyes of the robotic spacecraft sent out to explore it. Aerospace engineer Tracy Drain works at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to develop, test, and operate the complex machines that uncover some of the countless mysteries within and beyond our solar system.
