People Eating & Giving
Our Fabulous Special Guests!
Navigate the Future!
Meet the Sponsors that Make PEG Possible
Our Fabulous Special Guests
Make a Donation in Lieu of Attendance
When a "flat-earth" mentality sweeps the land, there's no better time to head for the horizon, defy borders, and venture forth in search of Terra Incognita. BFI invites you to join us for People Eating & Giving, as we fearlessly embark to Navigate the Future!
People Eating & Giving (hereby abbreviated to PEG) is the rambunctiously entertaining gala benefiting the Bureau of Fearless Ideas, the award-winning nonprofit writing and tutoring center open to Seattle-based humans aged 6-18. At BFI, kids from all over the Seattle area, of all different cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds, come together with a community of devoted volunteers to write and read and study and connect, through programs ranging from writing workshops and publishing programs to on-site collaborations with local schools. Your PEG attendance ensures BFI's ever-more-necessary oasis of creativity, diversity, and equality remains free and open to all. (Plus it’s super fun.)
People Eating & Giving includes dinner prepared by the fantastic Kaspar's, vast wine, and a parade of entertainments at the fabulous Fremont Studios, culminating in a live raise-the-paddle fundraiser to support BFI's programs.
And oh yeah...we also have some amazing
March 31, 2017
6:00 pm-10:00 pm
Fremont Studios
155 N. 35th Street
Seattle, WA 98103
Want to see your business/organization’s name here? Contact
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for sponsorship details and benefits— there’s still time!
Georgetown Brewery
Deloitte
U-Park
Dyna Contracting
Pacific Continental Bank
Champions's Party Supply
Theo Chocolate
Lindy West is a columnist at The Guardian, a contributor to This American Life, and a freelance writer whose work focuses on feminism, social justice, humor, and body image. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Cosmopolitan, GQ, Vulture, Jezebel, The Stranger, and others. She is the founder of I Believe You, It's Not Your Fault, an advice blog for teens. Her bestselling memoir Shrill, published last year by Hachette Books, has just landed on shelves everywhere in paperback.
Lindy West - Writer
Coming on like Muppet Baby Ramones high on Skittles and their own singular chemistry, Tacocat is the Seattle rock band that will make you care about rock bands. Composed of real-life best friends Emily Nokes, Bree McKenna, Lelah Maupin, and Eric Randall, Tacocat delivers pointed lyrics as breezy jokes and fights the patriarchy with candy-colored pop-punk, banged out with the intensity of a friendly tornado. The band's 2016 album Lost Time is a new Seattle classic that will enrich lives for years to come.
TACOCAT - Rock Band/Palindrome
Karen Finneyfrock is a poet, a teaching artist, and the author of the young adult novels Starbird Murphy & the World Outside and The Sweet Revenge of Celia Door.
Karen Finneyfrock
- Poet, Novelist & Teaching Artist
Nancy Pearl is a singular force in the world of American letters. As a librarian and author of the best-selling Book Lust, she's guided countless readers to their next favorite books. As creator of the program “If All of Seattle Read the Same Book,” she rallied our big, diverse city around titles like Persepolis and Little Bee and the work of Isabel Allende. And for excelling at all such things, Pearl attained action-hero status, via the best-selling Librarian Action Figure modeled in her likeness.
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She is host of the monthly television program Book Lust with Nancy Pearl, a regular commentator on NPR’s “Morning Edition,” and a most brilliant exemplar of BFI's core value of improving the world by communing around reading and writing and storytelling, and making access to this community easy and open to all.
Nancy Pearl - Author/Librarian
