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15th Annual Festival Of The Arts Boca from page 21
of Nestor Torres, for he speaks through his instrument. Residents Are Registered on

Nominated for several Latin Grammy Awards, Torres
bittersweet victory given the fact that the Awards’ www.bocapointe.com. Are You?
won it in 2001 for his CD This Side of Paradise, a

ceremony was scheduled for 9/11/2001. His CD
“Dances, Prayers & Meditations for Peace” signaled If you have never registered on the Community web site Residents Only page and click on the “User
a new departure, as a reflection of his experience on Association web site, call Access Control for our Profile” link.
9/11. Torres’s most recent Grammy®-nominated CD, “Community Code,” then go to www.bocapointe.com. Once you are a registered user, to log onto the web
Nouveau Latino, heralds the flautist’s exuberant return Click on the “Not registered yet?” link right under the site, you simply go to www.bocapointe.com and you will
to his Salsa and Latin Jazz roots. In addition to his log in box. find the User name and Password boxes in the top right
achievements in the studio and on the stage, Torres If you think you are registered, but just can’t hand corner. Fill in your information, then click on the
has received numerous awards and commendations, remember your User Name and Password, click on the small blue forward arrow. The log in is “case sensitive.”
including two honorary doctorates for his commitment “Forgot your password?” link and it will be mailed to If you are a smartphone user, we now have a mobile
to youth, education, and cultural exchanges. the email address you used when you registered. version of the web site for your use that even includes
This season’s Authors & Ideas program will include Want to update your email address or add your a Comment Form. Let us know what you think and
interactive discussions with three authors, Admiral mobile number to receive text messages? Go to the give us your suggestions for improvements. 
James Stavridis, Sonia Shah and Bruce Feiler, via
Zoom.
On Monday, March 8 at 7 p.m., Admiral James
Stavridis author and retired four-star U.S. Naval
officer, will talk about leadership. He is currently an
Operating Executive of The Carlyle Group, a global
investment firm and Chair of the Board of Counselors
of McLarty Associates, an international consulting
firm. Previously he served for five years as the Dean
of The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at
Tufts University. He led the NATO Alliance in global
operations from 2009 to 2013 as Supreme Allied
Commander with responsibility for Afghanistan,
Libya, the Balkans, Syria, counter piracy, and cyber
security. He also served as Commander of U.S.
Southern Command, the first Naval officer to do so,
with responsibility for all military operations in Latin
America from 2006-2009. He earned more than 50
medals, including 28 from foreign nations in his 37-
year military career.
On Tuesday, March 9 at 7 p.m., Bruce Feiler
will discuss his latest book, a top 10 New York Times
bestseller, Life Is In the Transitions: Mastering Change
at Any Age, a collection of hundreds of life stories,
exploring how we can navigate life’s growing number
of transitions to live with more meaning, purpose, and
joy. Feiler is the author of seven New York Times
bestsellers; the presenter of two prime-time series
on PBS; and the inspiration for the drama series
COUNCIL OF DADS on NBC. Feiler’s two TED Talks
have been viewed more than two million times.
On Thursday, March 11 at 7 p.m., the Festival
will welcome Sonia Shah, science journalist and
prize-winning author of the heavily lauded, The Next
Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the
Move, that explores our centuries-long assumptions
about migration through science, history, and
reporting, predicting its lifesaving power in the face
of climate change. Her 2016 book, Pandemic: Tracking
Contagions from Cholera to Coronaviruses and Beyond
was released in August 2020 with a new preface and
has been called “superbly written,” (The Economist),
“bracingly intelligent” (Nature), “provocative” and
“chilling,” (New York Times), a “lively, rigorously
researched and highly informative read,” (Wall Street
Journal) and “absorbing, complex, and ominous,”
(Publishers Weekly). Sonia Shah discusses the
fascinating interplay of microbes, ecosystems, wildlife
and livestock and human behavior. In her July 2020
essay in the Nation she writes, “It’s time for a new
story, one that more accurately captures the reality
of how contagions unfold and why. In this story,
pandemics would be cast as both a biological reality
and a social phenomenon shaped by human agency.”
For more information visit festivalboca.org or call
(561) 571-5270. 

A HAPPY AND HEALTHY AND
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