Name: Elizabeth Gilbert
Start: 2025-10-20T19:30:00-07:00
End: 2025-10-20T19:30:00-07:00
Location: The Great Hall

Elizabeth Gilbert

All the Way to the River: A Memoir

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Date:: Monday, October 20
Time:: 7:30 pm PDT
Cost:: $7 – $128

Venue

: The Great Hall
: 1119 Eighth Avenue (enter on Eighth Avenue)
Seattle, 98101 United States + Google Map

Organizer

: Seattle Arts & Lectures
Email: boxoffice@lectures.org
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Event Format: In-Person, Livestream

EVENT NOTES
Doors for this event will open at 6:00 PM.

Presented by Seattle Arts & Lectures. For questions about this event, please contact boxoffice@lectures.org or call (206) 621-2230.

Rentals

In her first nonfiction book in a decade, #1 bestselling writer Elizabeth Gilbert who taught millions of readers to live authentically (Eat Pray Love) and creatively (Big Magic) shows how to break free, joining Community Curated Series director Colleen Echohawk in conversation. All the Way to the River is a landmark memoir that will resonate with anyone who has ever been captive to love—or to any other passion, substance, or craving—and who yearns, at long last, for liberation.

In 2000, Elizabeth Gilbert met Rayya. They became friends, then best friends, then inseparable. When tragedy entered their lives, the truth was finally laid bare: The two were in love. They were also a pair of addicts, on a collision course toward catastrophe.

What if your most beautiful love story turned into your biggest nightmare? What if the dear friend who taught you so much about your self-destructive tendencies became the unstable partner with whom you disastrously reenacted every one of them? And what if your most devastating heartbreak opened a pathway to your greatest awakening?

Elizabeth Gilbert is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the novels City of Girls, The Signature of All Things, and Stern Men; the story collection Pilgrims; and the nonfiction books Big Magic, Eat Pray Love, Committed, and The Last American Man. A finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the PEN/Hemingway Award, Gilbert began her career as a journalist.

Colleen Echohawk, our Community Curated Series director and host for the evening, is a storyteller and changemaker encouraging hope-filled conversations that spark imagination, uplift justice, and inspire joyful transformation.