The New Yorker has announced the first guests for The New Yorker Live, a new event series featuring conversations and audience Q. & A.s with some of the most influential figures in politics, art, and culture. Inspired by the annual New Yorker Festival, The New Yorker Live will take place monthly and is free for all New Yorker subscribers.
The series’ two-event première begins online on March 29th, with a conversation at 6 P.M. E.T. between the poet, activist, and author Amanda Gorman, a sensation at President Biden’s Inauguration, and Jeremy O. Harris, a celebrated playwright and producer. The pair will be hosted by the New Yorker contributing writer Lauren Michele Jackson, in a discussion about art, race, and expression.
The New Yorker Live will continue at 6 P.M. E.T. on March 31st with Representative Joaquin Castro and the author Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, in conversation about immigration and the politics of the southern border. They’ll be joined on the virtual stage by David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker, and Sarah Stillman, a staff writer and the director of the Global Migration Project, at Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism.
Future New Yorker Live events will be announced each month, and are accessible only to subscribers. Attendees don’t need to reserve tickets or register; just sign in to newyorker.com/live before each event to view the live stream and participate in Q. & A. sessions. Conversations will also be available for on-demand replay.
The launch of The New Yorker Live follows the first online New Yorker Festival, in October, which offered special benefits to subscribers and drew record audiences from well beyond New York City. “Taking The New Yorker Festival virtual last year made clear that there’s a desire among our readers around the globe for deeply engaging conversations,” Remnick said. “With the launch of this new series, I’m so pleased that we’ll be bringing this community, built around subscribers, together on a regular basis.”
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