Free Lawn Talks

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.

Oren Cass
Claire Keegan
Dan Jones
Vivek H. Murthy, MD
Paola Ramos
Meenakshi Ahamed
Sloane Crosley
Wright Thompson
Theodore H. Schwartz
Yael van der Wouden
The Improvised Shakespeare Company
Carl Hiaasen
Ocean Vuong
Sonia Purnell
Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Andre Dubus III
Liz Moore
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Ruth Reichl
Griffin Dunne
Erling Kagge
Colum McCann
Safiya Sinclair
Jonathan Blitzer
Admiral James Stavridis
Max Boot
Todd S. Purdum

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.