UPCOMING EVENTS
“What it Means to Love America” Dan Rather on What Unites Us: The Graphic Novel
Information and “the news” have become contested territories, with more people than ever, especially the young, feeling that they just can’t trust what they read, hear and watch. That’s a dangerous situation in the current moment of cultural and political reckoning when Americans need to work together. Times like these are when we’re especially grateful for broadcast journalist Dan Rather.
Alpenglow Winter Speaker Series Presents Vasu Sojitra “Ninjasticking”
Alpenglow Sports Winter Speaker Series is the premier North American forum for adventure storytelling and fundraiser for Tahoe non-profits.
Alpenglow Winter Speaker Series Presents Ingrid Backstrom “Little Big Mountain Skiing”
Alpenglow Sports Winter Speaker Series is the premier North American forum for adventure storytelling and fundraiser for Tahoe non-profits.
The National Book Critics Circle Awards Celebration
A celebration of literary excellence honoring the National Book Critics Circle 2019 award winners and announcing the 2020 awards finalists.
Writing, Reading, and Being All Too Gloriously Human: George Saunders with Tobias Wolff on the Storytelling Greats
In our once-in-a-lifetime live, virtual event, Saunders teams up with his dear friend and mentor, Tobias Wolff (This Boy’s Life) — one of Barack Obama’s National Medal of the Arts honorees — to celebrate Saunders’ first book in four years, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life.
Alpenglow Winter Speaker Series Presents Angel Collinson “Another Half-Mile”
Alpenglow Sports Winter Speaker Series is the premier North American forum for adventure storytelling and fundraiser for Tahoe non-profits.
Alpenglow Winter Speaker Series Presents Cody Townsend “The Best Three So Far: Stories Behind The Fifty Project”
Alpenglow Sports Winter Speaker Series is the premier North American forum for adventure storytelling and fundraiser for Tahoe non-profits.
Alpenglow Winter Speaker Series Presents Dave Nettle: Sheltering in Place
Alpenglow Sports Winter Speaker Series is the premier North American forum for adventure storytelling and fundraiser for Tahoe non-profits.
Walk with Obi: Coast Redwoods on Fire
Take a once-in-a-lifetime virtual walk with Obi Kaufmann as he explores habitat recovery & restoration of a burned coast redwood forest.
Heyday Harvest
Join Heyday for their 14th annual Heyday Harvest, honoring Greg Sarris, Innosanto Nagara, and California’s independent booksellers.
Berkeley #Unbound
Just a month before the election, the Bay Area Book Festival presents Berkeley #UNBOUND, an all-day, free, virtual mini-festival. Berkeley #UNBOUND will gather many of the world’s most influential thinkers, writers and trailblazers to offer bold visions in response to the political and social crucible facing our nation.
Walk with Obi: Burned Forests of the Sierra
Take a once-in-a-lifetime virtual walk with Obi Kaufmann as he explores habitat recovery & restoration of a burned forest in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
SELECT PAST EVENTS
Join award-winning author, artist, and educator John Muir Laws online OR at the new beautiful Sierra Valley Nature Center in Beckwourth, California, to celebrate the publication of The Laws Field Guide to Sierra Birds with a talk, reception, and book signing.
Join us for a reception-style event on Saturday, November 16, from 2pm to 4pm ET at the MIT Museum’s Phillip A. Sharp Room to celebrate the upcoming release of MacPaw’s powerful book, Innovation in Isolation: The Story of Ukrainian IT from the 1940s to the Present.
Our 18th annual Heyday Harvest takes you on a journey into the worlds of some of Heyday’s most beloved authors and visionaries, celebrating 50 years of Heyday books.
The Kirkus Prize is one of the richest literary awards in the world, with a prize of $50,000 bestowed annually to authors of fiction, nonfiction and young readers’ literature.
Streaming live from Palisades Tahoe: Blas Falconer, Brenda Hillman, Major Jackson, Patricia Spears Jones, Brynn Saito, and Matthew Zapruder. will read from their published and unpublished work, including poems written in Olympic Valley just days before.
Join New York Times bestselling author, Eric Blehm, in conversation with snowboarding pioneer Jim Zellers.
The Shane McConkey Foundation declares March 23rd International Snowblade Day at Palisades Tahoe. Pay tribute to Shane and his legacy by joining us for an epic event with over $15,000 in giveaway prizes from K2, Jones Snowboards, and more.
A celebration of literary excellence honoring the National Book Critics Circle 2023 award winners.
African-American and Hispanic entrepreneurs receive less than 4% of venture capital funding. MedTech Color is standing up to help change that.
Wildbound Live and Alpenglow Sports presents mountaineer Dave Nettle’s “Ski Touring The Tyrol: Blending the Magic of Austria and Italy”
Wildbound Live and Alpenglow Sports presents pro skier Ingrid Backstrom’s “Searching for the Answer.”
Wildbound Live and Alpenglow Sports presents pro skier Elyse Saugstad’s “If There’s a Will, There’s a Way.”
Wildbound Live and Alpenglow Sports presents Jim and John Morrison’s “Skiing the High Sierra & Beyond.”
Wildbound Live and Alpenglow Sports presents pro skier Michelle Parker’s livestream event “A New Perspective.”
Join us online for the 16th annual Heyday Harvest livestream special event. We will celebrate the collective effort of the Heyday community that brings our mission to life on a daily basis. You can expect to hear from Heyday authors and readers, publisher Steve Wasserman, Board and staff members, and our honorees.
Our 17th annual Heyday Harvest takes you on a journey into the worlds of some of Heyday’s most beloved authors and visionaries, including artist-adventurer Obi Kaufmann, Karuk-Italian food writer Sara Calvosa Olson, and Los Angeles Times journalist and Pulitzer finalist Rosanna Xia.
The Kirkus Prize is one of the richest literary awards in the world, with a prize of $50,000 bestowed annually to authors of fiction, nonfiction and young readers’ literature.
Renowned author Kim Stanley Robinson presents from his book The High Sierra: A Love Story.
Streaming live from Palisades Tahoe: Kazim Ali, Victoria Chang, Forrest Gander, Carmen Giménez, Robert Hass, Brenda Hillman, Sharon Olds, and Evie Shockley will read from their published and unpublished work, including poems written in Olympic Valley just days before.
The Broken Arrow Skyrace, presented by Salomon, is a three-day, eight distance event held at world-famous Palisades Tahoe.
We are hosting a one-of-a-kind fundraiser extravaganza for the Truckee Bike Park. This event features a silent auction, the biggest giveaway you’ve ever seen, live DJ, and more.
The Shane McConkey Foundation declares March 25th International Snowblade Day at Palisades Tahoe. Pay tribute to Shane and his legacy by joining us for an epic event with over $10,000 in giveaway prizes from K2, Jones Snowboards, and more.
A celebration of literary excellence honoring the National Book Critics Circle 2022 award winners.
Wildbound Live and Alpenglow Sports presents Dave Nettle's livestream event "A Return to the Alps – A Post Covid Ski Mountaineering Journey." In 2022, after two years of pandemic uncertainty, severe economic hardship, and international travel restrictions, the high mountain huts and ski resorts throughout Europe began to open again. Watch the livestream hybrid event here!
Wildbound Live and Alpenglow Sports present Anna Pfaff's livestream event "Life's Newest Crux." Rural northeast Ohio isn’t a breeding ground for alpinists, but that’s exactly where one of the world’s premiere alpinists was born and raised. Watch the livestream hybrid event here!
NBCC presents the livestream event of the National Book Critics Circle Finalists Announcement for books published in 2022.
Wildbound Live and Alpenglow Sports present Brette Harrington's livestream event "Versatility Fueled by Mountain Creativity." Brette Harrington is a bold alpinist, accomplished 5.13+ trad climber, calculated soloist, expert ski mountaineer, big wall sender, and graceful mixed climber.
Wildbound Live and Alpenglow Sports presents Adrian Ballinger's livestream event "Third Time’s a Charm – A Journey to Ski Makalu." In the spring of 2022, Adrian Ballinger made his third attempt of the past decade to ski Makalu, the 5th tallest mountain in the world. Watch the livestream hybrid event here!
Wildbound Live and Alpenglow Sports present Jeremy Jone’s livestream event "The Art of Shralpinism." Based on his new book by the same title, The Art of Shralpinism covers a compendium of hard-won lessons, quick tips, sound advice, and impactful stories largely documented from journals Jones has kept over the years. Watch the livestream hybrid event here!
The Kirkus Prize is one of the richest literary awards in the world, with a prize of $50,000 bestowed annually to authors of fiction, nonfiction and young readers’ literature.
Information and “the news” have become contested territories, with more people than ever, especially the young, feeling that they just can’t trust what they read, hear and watch. That’s a dangerous situation in the current moment of cultural and political reckoning when Americans need to work together. Times like these are when we’re especially grateful for broadcast journalist Dan Rather.
Alpenglow Sports Winter Speaker Series is the premier North American forum for adventure storytelling and fundraiser for Tahoe non-profits.
Alpenglow Sports Winter Speaker Series is the premier North American forum for adventure storytelling and fundraiser for Tahoe non-profits.
A celebration of literary excellence honoring the National Book Critics Circle 2019 award winners and announcing the 2020 awards finalists.
In our once-in-a-lifetime live, virtual event, Saunders teams up with his dear friend and mentor, Tobias Wolff (This Boy’s Life) — one of Barack Obama’s National Medal of the Arts honorees — to celebrate Saunders’ first book in four years, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life.
Alpenglow Sports Winter Speaker Series is the premier North American forum for adventure storytelling and fundraiser for Tahoe non-profits.
Alpenglow Sports Winter Speaker Series is the premier North American forum for adventure storytelling and fundraiser for Tahoe non-profits.
Alpenglow Sports Winter Speaker Series is the premier North American forum for adventure storytelling and fundraiser for Tahoe non-profits.
Take a once-in-a-lifetime virtual walk with Obi Kaufmann as he explores habitat recovery & restoration of a burned coast redwood forest.
Join Heyday for their 14th annual Heyday Harvest, honoring Greg Sarris, Innosanto Nagara, and California’s independent booksellers.
Just a month before the election, the Bay Area Book Festival presents Berkeley #UNBOUND, an all-day, free, virtual mini-festival. Berkeley #UNBOUND will gather many of the world’s most influential thinkers, writers and trailblazers to offer bold visions in response to the political and social crucible facing our nation.
Take a once-in-a-lifetime virtual walk with Obi Kaufmann as he explores habitat recovery & restoration of a burned forest in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.