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Buy a BookFest Season Pass

Title Sponsor - $10,000+

  • Name recognition on BookFest Brochure cover
  • 12 tickets to all events
  • Recognition in BookFest marketing materials
  • Full-page ad on back cover of BookFest Brochure
  • Two signed copies of every book presented at the BookFest
  • Priority seating at all events
  • 12 invitations to VIP receptions

Publisher - $2,500+

  • Five unique household registration links for every BookFest event June 1, 2021- May 31, 2022 sent to the email addresses you designate including the season opening event with Daniel Silva on July 12 at 7:00 pm CT
  • Three signed first edition copies of Silva’s July 2021 release The Cellist
  • Two signed copies of Jori Epstein’s The Upstander: How Surviving the Holocaust Sparked Max Glauben’s Mission to Dismantle Hate
  • Recognition on website, in online BookFest program and JCC lobby screens
  •  Full page ad in online program

Editor - $1,800+

  • Four unique household registration links for every BookFest event June 1, 2021- May 31, 2022 sent to the email addresses you designate including the season opening event with Daniel Silva on July 12 at 7:00 pm CT
  • Two signed first edition copies of Silva’s July 2021 release The Cellist
  • One signed copy of Jori Epstein’s The Upstander: How Surviving the Holocaust Sparked Max Glauben’s Mission to Dismantle Hate
  • Recognition on website, in online BookFest program and JCC lobby screens
  • 1/2-page ad in online program

Author - $1,000+

  • Three unique household registration links for every event June 1, 2021- May 31, 2022 sent to the email addresses you designate including the season opening event with Daniel Silva on July 12 at 7:00 pm CT
  • Two signed first edition copies of Silva’s July 2021 release The Cellist
  •  One signed copy of Jori Epstein’s The Upstander: How Surviving the Holocaust Sparked Max Glauben’s Mission to Dismantle Hate
  • Recognition on website, in online BookFest program and JCC lobby screens
  • 1/2-page ad in online program

Illustrator - $550+

  • Two unique household registration links for every event June 1, 2021- May 31, 2022 sent to the email addresses you designate including the season opening event with Daniel Silva on July 12 at 7:00 pm CT
  • One signed first edition copy of Silva’s July 2021 release The Cellist
  • One signed copy of Jori Epstein’s The Upstander: How Surviving the Holocaust Sparked Max Glauben’s Mission to Dismantle Hate
  • Recognition on website, in online BookFest program
  • ¼ page ad in online program

Reader - $275

  • One unique household registration link for every event June 1, 2021- May 31, 2022 sent to the email address you designate including the season opening event with Daniel Silva on July 12 at 7:00 pm CT
  • One signed first edition copy of Silva’s July 2021 release The Cellist
  •  Recognition on website, in online BookFest program

BOOKFEST SEASON PASS 
Purchase your season pass for $154, this gives you a unique household registration link to all BookFest programs from August 1, 2021 – May 31, 2022 with the exception of a few events requiring a book purchase*.

  Last season  we hosted more than 70 events and expect a similar number this year. Season Pass holders will also receive early notification of new events as we add them. The season pass will equate to 1 ticket  for live programs.

*A disclaimer will be listed on the events that are not included in the Season Pass.

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The mission of BookFest is to celebrate the written word brought to us by Jewish authors and books with Jewish content. Each year we seek the very best authors and books to provide a window to the Jewish experience and give our community members the opportunity to engage with the person behind the book while discovering what inspires the author in his or her creative work.

Programs will be recorded and made available to ticket holders upon request to rweisscrane@jccddallas.org  for 7 days after the program has aired.   

Many programs are presented in partnership with the National JCC Literary Consortium: Atlanta, Baltimore, Boulder, Cherry Hill, Dallas, Ft. Lauderdale, Houston, Indianapolis, Memphis, Miami, Nashville, Palm Beach Gardens, Palo Alto, Rochester, and Seattle (not all JCCs participate in all programs)

UPCOMING EVENTS

Margaret Atwood
August 10, 2021 | 7:00 pm

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Billie Jean King
August 16, 2021 | 7:00 pm

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Daniel Levin
August 18, 2021 | 7:00 pm

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Francine Prose
August 23, 2021 | 7:00 pm

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Jake Cohen
August 26, 2021 | 7:00 pm

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  • October 3 at 7:00 pm – David Rubenstein: How To Lead
  • October 13 at 7:00 pm – Mindy Weisel: The Obligation of Beauty
  • October 19 at 7:00 pm – Jori Epstein and Max Glauben: The Upstander [LIVE event]
  • October 20 at 11:30 am – David Grossman: More Than I Love My Life
  • November 3 at 7:00 – Michael Bar-Zohar: The Amazing Women in the Israel Secret Service
  • November 7 at 3:00 pm – Lucy Adlington: The Dressmakers of Auschwitz
  • November 7 at 7:00 pm – Mark Oppenheimer: Squirrel Hill
  • November 9 at 7:00 pm –  Dorie Greenspan :Baking with Dorie

PREVIOUS EVENTS – RECORDINGS

To view past events, click on a title from the dropdown menu to view recording.