2023 YWCA INSPIRE LUNCHEON WITH MISTY COPELAND

Event Details

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The Inspire Luncheon is our biggest fundraising event of the year, and this year, it’s both in-person and virtual! Gifts inspired by the event support YWCA programs across King and Snohomish counties like emergency and permanent housing; gender-based violence services; and job training. To make the Luncheon a safe, comfortable, and meaningful experience, this is a limited-capacity event, and we anticipate selling out early.

Get your tickets today; we’d love to see you at our new venue this year, The Westin Seattle!

About Misty Copeland

Misty Copeland is a Principal Dancer with American Ballet Theatre, the first Black woman to be promoted to the position in the company's 75-year history in 2015. She has performed some of the most iconic classical ballet roles, including Odette/Odile in Swan Lake; Juliet in Romeo & Juliet; Giselle; Manon; Coppelia; Kitri in Don Quixote; and Firebird, to name a few.

Misty is an avid philanthropist and in 2022, she launched The Misty Copeland Foundation, with its first signature program BE BOLD, which aims to bring greater diversity, equity and inclusion to dance, especially ballet.

Misty started her production company, Life In Motion Productions, focused on bringing representative stories of artists past, present, and future, and normalizing the arts experience. Her first independently produced project, Flower, is a silent arts activism film using dance to help raise awareness about intergenerational equity. 

She is the New York Times bestselling author of several books, including Life In Motion, Ballerina Body, Black Ballerinas, The Wind At My Back, and picture books titled Bunheads and Firebird.

In 2021, Misty received the Spingarn Medal, the NAACP’s highest honor.

TICKET DESCRIPTIONS

Table and Virtual Captains are ambassadors for YWCA's Inspire Luncheon. Their role is to invite members of their community and networks to join them at the Luncheon, and to help influence support for YWCA. Virtual Captains (new this year) will host guests at their location of choice, viewing the live event via a private YouTube link.

In-person Tickets, attending the event at The Westin Seattle

Guests who attend in-person at the Westin will receive lunch with their ticket (vegan option available)

Table Captain Table ($1,500): This includes seats for 9 people and the Table Captain.

Table Captain Ticket ($150): Table Captains can purchase a ticket and invite 9 of their friends to purchase tickets to help fill the table.

Individual Ticket ($150): For those who are purchasing their own ticket for the event.

Virtual Tickets, streaming the live event via private YouTube link

Virtual Captain Ticket ($500): Virtual Captains can purchase this ticket to host their own virtual event. A kit with information about how to make a gift, facts about YWCA, and YouTube link will be provided.

Virtual Individual Ticket ($25): For those who wish to live-stream the event, a YouTube link will be provided.

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