VISIONS OF THE NEXT
23rd June 2026
23rd June 2026
WGBH headquarters
WGBH headquarters
WGBH headquarters
WGBH headquarters
WGBH headquarters
WGBH headquarters
WGBH headquarters
WGBH headquarters
WGBH headquarters
WGBH headquarters
About
Why Here?
Why Now?
Massachusetts spent its first 250 years inventing the country. Independence started here. So did public education, the telephone, the polio vaccine, the World Wide Web's first American node, and a long line of the institutions and ideas the rest of the country grew up using. Where Liberty Sparks Innovation is a one-day gathering at GBH about what this state helps invent in the next 250. The people, technologies, and institutions that carry the experiment forward to America at 500.
The day is part of Our America 250, a statewide initiative honoring the Revolution's quarter-millennium by treating it as a starting line rather than a finish. The program convenes scientists, founders, civic leaders, artists, educators, and organizers — including voices the first 250 years left out — for the kind of cross-generational conversation Massachusetts has always been good at hosting.
These talks will look to the future, and serve as living digital time capsules to be reviewed and acted on for the next 250 years.
Massachusetts spent its first 250 years inventing the country. Independence started here. So did public education, the telephone, the polio vaccine, the World Wide Web's first American node, and a long line of the institutions and ideas the rest of the country grew up using. Where Liberty Sparks Innovation is a one-day gathering at GBH about what this state helps invent in the next 250. The people, technologies, and institutions that carry the experiment forward to America at 500.
The day is part of Our America 250, a statewide initiative honoring the Revolution's quarter-millennium by treating it as a starting line rather than a finish. The program convenes scientists, founders, civic leaders, artists, educators, and organizers — including voices the first 250 years left out — for the kind of cross-generational conversation Massachusetts has always been good at hosting.
These talks will look to the future, and serve as living digital time capsules to be reviewed and acted on for the next 250 years.
Speakers
The Voices Shaping The Fututre For The Next 250
Event Venue
GBH Studios 1 Guest Street, Brighton, Boston
Yawkey Auditorium and Atrium
Yawkey Auditorium and Atrium
Yawkey Auditorium and Atrium
The GBH headquarters is a 310,000-square-foot, LEED-certified facility at 1 Guest Street in Boston's Brighton neighborhood, serving as the hub for TV and radio production since 2007.
Designed by Ennead Architects, the state-of-the-art building features a distinctive glass "bridge" and a 30-foot digital facade. GBH calls itself an idea factory. The architecture makes the case.
The GBH headquarters is a 310,000-square-foot, LEED-certified facility at 1 Guest Street in Boston's Brighton neighborhood, serving as the hub for TV and radio production since 2007.
Designed by Ennead Architects, the state-of-the-art building features a distinctive glass "bridge" and a 30-foot digital facade. GBH calls itself an idea factory. The architecture makes the case.
August
Martha’s Vineyard August 13th
The series continues on the Vineyard, where generations of Black writers, civil rights leaders, and public thinkers have summered, organized, and written. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. drafted speeches at the Overton House in Oak Bluffs. The island has been a working space for American leadership long before the cameras arrived.
This August convening leans into that lineage. Fewer seats, longer conversation, same question, who's drafting what comes next, and where is it being written?
The series continues on the Vineyard, where generations of Black writers, civil rights leaders, and public thinkers have summered, organized, and written. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. drafted speeches at the Overton House in Oak Bluffs. The island has been a working space for American leadership long before the cameras arrived.
This August convening leans into that lineage. Fewer seats, longer conversation, same question, who's drafting what comes next, and where is it being written?
