Keynote Speaker: Isabel Wilkerson
Schedule
Sat, 13 May, 2023 at 07:30 pm
Location
The Cleveland Orchestra | Cleveland, OH
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Presented in partnership with the City Club of ClevelandKeynote speaker Isabel Wilkerson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author of critically acclaimed bestsellers, including The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration, which was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction. Wilkerson's New York Times best-selling book Caste (also an Oprah’s Book Club 2020 selection) is being adapted to film for Netflix by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Ava DuVernay.
Wilkerson won the Pulitzer Prize for her deeply humane narrative writing while serving as Chicago Bureau Chief of The New York Times in 1994, making her the first Black woman in the history of American journalism to win a Pulitzer Prize and the first African American to win for individual reporting. In 2016, President Barack Obama awarded Wilkerson the National Humanities Medal for “championing the stories of an unsung history.”
Ms. Wilkerson’s presentation will include chamber music performances by Cleveland Orchestra musicians of music by composers affected by the American Dream.
This event will be livestreamed on adella.live and by Chautauqua Institution on CHQ Assembly at assembly.chq.org, in partnership with Ideastream Public Media.
*A book signing with Ms. Wilkerson will immediately follow the event
Isabel Wilkerson, speaker
Dan Moulthrop, CEO The City Club of Cleveland, moderator
With musicians of The Cleveland Orchestra
Wei-Fang Gu, violin
Isabel Trautwein, violin
Jeffrey Zehngut, violin
Eliesha Nelson, viola
David Alan Harrell, cello
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Where is it happening?
The Cleveland Orchestra, 11001 Euclid Ave,Cleveland,OH,United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
