2024 Annual Gala, Languages of The Land
Oct 03, 2024 5:30PM—9:00PM
Location
Kress Pavillion, 7845 Church St, Egg Harbor, WI 54209
Cost $150.00
Categories Community Events
Finding connection and inspiration from the natural world.
Tickets are now on sale for Write On, Door County’s 2024 Annual Gala, Languages of the Land to be held October 3 at the Kress Pavillion in Egg Harbor, WI. The keynote speaker this year will be former Wisconsin Poet Laureate Kimberly Blaeser, an Anishinaabe activist and environmentalist. Her talk will follow dinner catered by Thyme Catering.
5:30 pm – Cocktails
6:30 pm – Dinner
7:30 pm – Keynote
Tickets for this year’s event are $150. Cost for a full table (8 seats) is $1,000.
To purchase a full table, please click here.
When purchasing a full table, please enter 1 as the number of attendees. This question in our registration system refers to the number of tables, not the number of people at the table. All table registrations are for 8 guests. Entering 8 as the number of attendees will signal to our registration system that you wish to purchase 8 tables.
For individual tickets, please click the Register button above.
About Our Keynote Speaker:
Kimberly Blaeser, founding director of Indigenous Nations Poets and past Wisconsin Poet
Laureate, is the author of works in several genres. Her poetry collections include Ancient Light
(2024), Copper Yearning (2019), and Résister en dansant/Ikwe-niimi: Dancing Resistance
(2020). An enrolled member of the White Earth Nation, Blaeser is an Anishinaabe activist and
environmentalist. She is Professor Emerita at UW–Milwaukee, 2024 Mackey Chair in Creative
Writing at Beloit College, and MFA faculty member at the Institute of American Indian Arts.
Blaeser’s honors include the Zona Gale Short Fiction Award and a Lifetime Achievement Award
from Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas. Visit her website.