CASCADE PBS IDEAS FESTIVAL

The Cascade PBS Ideas Festival is a full-day event in the heart of downtown Seattle, featuring live podcasts and studio television recordings. Journalists, newsmakers, and thought leaders from around the world take on hot topics making news and the biggest issues of our time.

PODCASTS & TELEVISION

Podcasts from around the country come to Seattle to record live sessions that are recorded for broadcast and streaming on Cascade PBS; including publications like The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Vox, CNN, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and more.

LISTEN & WATCH

Watch conversations on Cascade PBS Ideas Festival ON DEMAND. Listen to full length podcast editions of all festival conversations HERE.

SPEAKERS

The Cascade PBS Ideas Festival has hosted hundreds of speakers such as Jane Goodall, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Malcolm Gladwell, Speaker Emeritus Nancy Pelosi, Macklemore, Judy Woodruff, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Senator Jeff Flake, Senator Amy Klobuchar, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Senator Jon Tester, Jake Tapper, Ross Douthat, Al Franken, Attorney General Eric Holder, Michael Barbaro, Carl Bernstein, Ezra Klein, Amanda Knox, Matt Damon, Dahlia Lithwick, Heather Cox Richardson, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, and Governor Christine Todd Whitman.

MORE TO DO

In addition to the live podcasts and television taping, Elliott Bay Book Company hosts a pop up bookstore with all the speaker books available. Attendees can meet the speakers in a Q&A Corner after each session, or share thoughts and make community with fellow attendees at After Show Meetups. There are also food trucks, interactive installations, a happy hour and live DJ.

CONNECT WITH US

Interested in learning more? Reach us at events@cascadepbs.org