Talks & Entertainment

Elvis Perkins

with KINSEY

The folk rock recording artist has earned comparisons to Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen.

Ellen McCarthy

In Conversation with Rabbi Shira Stutman

The Real Thing: Lessons on Love and Life from a Wedding Reporter’s Notebook is a collection of insights—on dating, commitment, breakups, weddings, and marriage—that gives us a window into the mystery, the science, and the secrets of how we find love and make it last.

David Brooks

In The Road to Character, the New York Times op-ed columnist tells the story of ten great lives that illustrate how character is developed, and how we can all strive to build rich inner lives, marked by humility and moral depth.

Ute Lemper

Forever: The Love Poems of Pablo Neruda

The cabaret and jazz singer brings her newest project, a song cycle set to the love poems of Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda.

Sunday in the Park with Sixth & I

Celebrate the end of cold weather with a potluck picnic lunch in Meridian Hill Park.

Lowland Hum

with Laura Tsaggaris

On our Downstairs stage, the North Carolina-based songwriting duo intertwines folk, indie-rock, and Americana as a foundation for their entrancing vocal harmonies.

Kate Bolick

In Conversation with Scott Stossel

In Spinster: Making a Life of One’s Own, Bolick uses her personal experiences to explore why she, and more than 100 million American women, remains unmarried today.

Dustin Kensrue (of Thrice) and Andy Hull (of Manchester Orchestra)

with Tanner Merritt

Dustin Kensrue of Thrice and Andy Hull of Manchester Orchestra perform songs from their solo careers.

Toni Morrison

In Conversation with Michele Norris

The Nobel Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner tells a searing tale about the way childhood trauma shapes and misshapes the life of the adult in God Help the Child.

The Ballroom Thieves

with Tomás Pagán Motta

On our Downstairs stage, the Boston-based folk outfit performs its impassioned brand of folk music that combines deft instrumentation with expressive lyricism.