YIVO 90th Anniversary Gala

6:30pm Cocktails & Dinner
8:00pm Program & Award Ceremony

Bob Mankoff of The New Yorker will introduce Roz Chast.
Students of the Bard College Conservatory of Music's Vocal Arts Program will provide music from the Jewish Tin Pan Alley.

Dietary laws observed.

Sponsorships:

$10,000 Bronze Sponsorship ($9,100 is tax-deductible)
4 tickets | Listing in printed program

$18,000 Silver Sponsorship ($16,650 is tax-deductible)
6 tickets | Listing in printed program

$25,000 Gold Sponsorship ($23,200 is tax-deductible)
8 tickets | Listing in printed program

$50,000 Platinum Sponsorship ($47,750 is tax-deductible)
10 tickets | Listing in printed program

About the Honorees

Leon Botstein has been the president of Bard College since 1975, where he is the Leon Levy Professor in the Arts and Humanities. Under his leadership, Bard has become a premier American educational institution and international leader in the liberal arts, with programs in Russia, Kazakhstan, the West Bank, and Berlin. His early college high school model, now operating in seven locations nationwide, earned praise from President Obama.

Botstein was named Music Director of the American Symphony Orchestra in 1992 and of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra from 2003-2010. Honors include the National Arts Club Gold Medal, the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, and the Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Roz Chast, whose book Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant was selected as one of the New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of 2014 and won the 2014 Kirkus Prize, began publishing cartoons in The New Yorker soon after graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design. Over 1,000 of her cartoons have been printed in The New Yorker since 1978. She is known for her cast of recurring characters—hapless but relatively cheerful “everyfolk” who humorously articulate the unspoken dilemmas and anxieties of our time.

Chast’s cartoons have been published in many other magazines, including Scientific American, the Harvard Business Review, Redbook, and Mother Jones.