Past Events
Visionary Leadership Award Luncheon 2018
Honoring Claudia Rankine
Join us on Thursday, March 8th for the 8th annual Visionary Leadership Award Luncheon and Conversation. The Award Luncheon, which draws over 400 attendees from across the region, raises money for the Festival's diverse roster of programming presented in June each year. The award, established in 2010 in honor of Festival co-Founder Jean M. Handley, is awarded to a Visionary Leader whose trailblazing work is impacting the world.
See a list of past awardees here. This year's award will be presented to New York Times bestselling poet, MacArthur “Genius”, and National Book Critics Circle award winner, Claudia Rankine. Claudia Rankine is the author of five collections of poetry, including Citizen: An American Lyric and Don’t Let Me Be Lonely; two plays including Provenance of Beauty: A South Bronx Travelogue; numerous video collaborations, and is the editor of several anthologies including The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind. For Citizen, Rankine won the Forward Prize for Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry (Citizen was also nominated in the criticism category, making it the first book in the award’s history to be a double nominee), the Los...
Bear's at the Stack - Beer and BBQ Pairing
presented with Black Hog Brewing Co. and The Stack
Come on out to The Stack's fantastic Biergarten and indulge in 5 pairings of beer and barbeque led by Jason Sobocinski from Black Hog Brewing Co.