Institutional investors led by Providence Capital are staging a forum Wednesday to examine ways to prod the world's biggest photography company to alter its new course.
Apple has long used the MacWorld stage as a forum for introducing new products, typically keeping the announcements a secret until the day of the show.
It is an evening for connoisseurs of fine acting more than for those of us who have long admired Hare's ability to treat the public stage as a forum for national debate.
Mr. Bush shared the stage at a forum at the Church of Rock Creek here with three women chosen in advance, two of them single mothers of three, who said they had succeeded in moving from welfare to work.
Speaker Newt Gingrich had refused to allow official hearings on the issue, even though 61 Democrats had requested them, but the boisterous Representative Charles Schumer, of Brooklyn, staged an unofficial forum anyway.
Welcomed with "great joy" by London's Conservative mayor, Boris Johnson, MIPIM has for all of its 25-year existence been headquartered in Cannes, where every year, a couple of months before the French Riviera city rolls out the red carpet for the glitterati of the film world, it stages an exclusive forum for the major players of the international real estate scene.
During the 2008 campaign for the presidency, John McCain and Barack Obama both expressed a desire for more Americans to be engaged in national service when they shared the stage at Columbia University at a forum commemorating the seventh anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
It is redolent of Mr. Herheim's staging of "Parsifal" for the Bayreuth Festival three years ago, which treated Wagner's "stage-consecrating festival play" as a forum for changing attitudes toward the composer as viewed through German history and won Mr. Herheim a raft of favorable reviews.
It was fitting that this concert was taking place as part of the closing stages of the Edinburgh International Festival; a forum more used to major classical concerts, Stevens' set is performed and responded to as such, with no communication from any of the performers, hardly a peep from the audience, and hisses of annoyance when phones are drawn to take a photograph.
Advocates of this approach argue that it would provide a staged forum for vetting possible unintended consequences from recommendations (King, 2007).
A tribune of the people, a forum for debate, the stage upon which the great political battles of the day are played out.
