The 2009 New Yorker Festival
Published February 3rd, 2009
In honor of its tenth anniversary, the annual New Yorker Festival broadens its span to ten days, bringing together even more of today’s most celebrated personalities from the worlds of literature, politics, music, theater, fashion, food, and film.
This year’s Festival, which runs from October 9th-18th, 2009, will feature a full week of innovative programming leading up to the traditional Festival weekend. Events will include a Free Poetry Event, hosted by Paul Muldoon, featuring poets from our pages; a special Fiction Live event in which actors of the stage and screen will read fiction pieces from the magazine; the New Yorker Humor Revue, showcasing some of the magazine’s funniest writers; “Best of the Fest” events, in which Festival veterans return to celebrate the anniversary with new presentations and events, and New Yorker Writers on The New Yorker, an event co-hosted by The Moth, in which New Yorker writers share personal stories about the magazine.
In celebration of the tenth anniversary of the Festival, the magazine is establishing The New Yorker Festival Fund, which will this year benefit the Harlem Children’s Zone, an innovative, community-based not-for-profit that has created a comprehensive network of education, social-service and community-building programs for children and families in central Harlem. A portion of each ticket price and the net proceeds from a special online auction of singular New Yorker experiences will go toward the Festival Fund.
Tickets to the New Yorker Festival will go on sale on September 18th, 2009, at noon E.T.
