BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Hugo House - ECPv6.3.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Hugo House X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://hugohouse.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Hugo House REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20190310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20191103T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190516T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190516T213000 DTSTAMP:20240328T064943 CREATED:20190221T061200Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190221T061200Z UID:249100-1558027800-1558042200@hugohouse.org SUMMARY:Eat Read Hugo 2019: Benefit Dinner & Auction DESCRIPTION:Eat Read Hugo 2019\n\nJoin us for our annual benefit dinner and auction to help bring nationally recognized authors to our stage\, award scholarships to youth in need\, grant fellowships to emerging writers\, and provide a welcoming and open space for anyone who loves books or has a drive to write. \nThis glamorous evening of live and silent auctions\, renowned authors\, gourmet food\, and exquisite wine will bring together more than 250 of Hugo House’s most loyal donors\, patrons\, and community members. \nFeaturing special guest speaker Laurie Frankel\, author of the highly acclaimed novel This Is How It Always Is; emcee Karen Finneyfrock; auctioneer Fred Northup\, Jr.; delicious food from Herban Feast; and an auction of unique items and whimsical experiences—literary\, gastronomic\, and everything in between. \nEvent Details\n\nMay 16\, 2019 at Sodo Park\n(3200 1st Avenue South\, Seattle)\n5:30 pm | Doors open\n6 pm | Cocktails and hors d’oeuvres\n7 pm | Dinner and live auction\nTickets: Guest $200\, Patron $350. Purchase tickets at the bottom of the page. \n\nInterested in sponsoring this event or donating an item or experience for our live auction? Contact Louise Kincaid at louise@hugohouse.org or call 206-456-4006. \n\nAbout the Speaker\n\n \nLaurie Frankel is the New York Times bestselling\, award-winning author of three novels. Her writing has also appeared in the New York Times\, the Guardian\, Publishers Weekly\, People Magazine\, Lit Hub\, The Sydney Morning Herald\, and other publications. She is the recipient of the Washington State Book Award. Her novels have been translated into more than twenty-five languages\, and all three have been optioned for film or TV. A former college professor\, she now writes full-time. She was recently named one of the 50 Most Influential Women in Seattle where she lives with her family and makes good soup. \nHer novel\, This Is How It Always Is\, was Reese Witherspoon’s monthly book club pick in October 2018. \n\nAbout the Emcee\n\nKaren Finneyfrock is the author of the young adult novel The Sweet Revenge of Celia Door (Viking Children’s Books\, 2013) and a book of poems\, Ceremony for the Choking Ghost (Write Bloody\, 2010). She is a former writer-in-residence at Hugo House and teaches for Seattle Arts and Lectures’ Writers-in-the-Schools program. A member of four National Poetry Slam Teams\, Finneyfrock traveled to Nepal as a Cultural Envoy through the US Department of State to perform and teach poetry and in 2011\, she did a reading tour in Germany sponsored by the US Embassy. \n\nAbout the Auctioneer\n\nFred Northup\, Jr. is one of the Pacific Northwest’s busiest entertainers: as a fundraising auctioneer\, host and emcee\, author\, and comedy improviser. For 10 years\, Fred was a company member of Seattle’s famed “TheatreSports” comedy improv group\, and he travels the country emceeing and designing entertainment for major corporate events. In addition to his work on stage and on camera\, Fred Northup runs a video and event production company\, Southdown Creative. He’s also the co-founder of RainGlobes\, the globe that rains! When not entertaining the masses\, Fred can be found in Seattle entertaining his wife\, Ashley\, and their two children. \n\nThank you to our event sponsors! URL:https://hugohouse.org/event/eat-read-hugo-2019/ LOCATION:1634 11th Ave.\, Seattle\, WA\, 98112\, United States END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR