We are pleased to invite the community to join us for our series of free 2025 Pavilion Lawn Talks.
We want our local community to enjoy all that SVWC has to offer, which is why we have opened up select Pavilion Talks for FREE seating on the lawn of the Sun Valley Pavilion. Bring a picnic, blanket, and low-back chair and join us July 19-21 to hear from some of our country’s most inspiring minds.
Select presentations will be broadcast live to the large jumbotron on the Pavilion lawn. Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis—no ticketing or registration is required. You can browse our Bookstore Tent to purchase books by each author and join us for book signings following the talk. If you would prefer to watch the talk from inside the Sun Valley Pavilion, we have single event tickets available. We recommend signing up for our email newsletter to receive important updates and information about these events.
A complete schedule of available talks will be announced in June.
2025 Presenters
Be Inspired.
Liz Moore
Meenakshi Ahamed
Sloane Crosley
Claire Keegan
Paola Ramos
Oren Cass
Griffin Dunne
Wright Thompson
Carl Hiaasen
Colum McCann
Erling Kagge
Max Boot
Dan Jones
Todd S. Purdum
Ocean Vuong
Jonathan Blitzer
Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Theodore H. Schwartz
Safiya Sinclair
Admiral James Stavridis
Vivek H. Murthy, MD
The Improvised Shakespeare Company
Ruth Reichl
Sonia Purnell
Yael van der Wouden
Andre Dubus III
THE FINE PRINT:
- Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis.
- Please no high-backed chairs.
- In the unlikely event that extreme weather necessitates a change in talk location, lawn access will not be available.