Thursday, March 12, 2015

7:30 - 9:00 am

UMKC Volker Campus  |  Swinney Recreation Center

5030 Holmes

The event has been a sold-out success, but on March 12, 2015, the university plans to host an expanded Pride Breakfast like none of the years past. This event will not only be bigger in terms of attendance but for the first time will include a national-level speaker – Tony Kushner. We hope you can join us for what is sure to be an entertaining, inspiring and memorable event!

To purchase Tickets or a Sponsorship to the Pride Breakfast,
click the 'Registration Button' below.


TICKETS

Singles  |  $75           Tables  |  $750

Tables seat 9 guests, plus one student.
(UMKC Student Affairs and Enrollment Management
will place a student at each table.)

Tax deductible amounts are: $53 per ticket, $530 per table.


UMKC DIVISION or DEPARTMENT
If you are purchasing an internal ticket/table 
we can process your payment with a MoCode.
Please send an email to Christine Rogers rogersch@umkc.edu
with the following information: 
Event: UMKC Pride Breakfast  |  MoCode  |  Amount

SPONSOR LEVELS

Presenting Sponsor | $30,000

Trailblazer | $15,000

Champion | $7,500

Activist | $5,000

Ally | $2,500

Advocate | $1,500

Student Scholarship | $500

Full Sponsor descriptions and additional information:

To purchase Tickets or a Sponsorship to the Pride Breakfast,
click the 'Registration Button' below.



PRESENTING SPONSOR
Starr Field of Interest Fund

MAJOR SPONSORS
89.3 KCUR
Doug Anning and Kirk Isenhour
Burns & McDonnell
Cates-Cattaneo Family
Fiddly Fig
Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Cathy Jambrosic and Michele Stauffer
Kansas City CARE Clinic
Mary Kay McPhee and Bill Pfeiffer
Morgan Stanley
Ogletree Deakins
Shook Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.
Show-Me Presentation Resources
Sodexo
Tivol

Tony Kushner

Tony Kushner is an American playwright and screenwriter best known for his two-part epic play, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes. He wrote the screenplays for Mike Nichols’ film of Angels in America, and Steven Spielberg’s Munich. In 2012, he wrote the screenplay for Spielberg’s movie Lincoln. His screenplay was nominated for an Academy Award, and won the New York Film Critics Circle Award, Boston Society of Film Critics Award, Chicago Film Critics Award, and several others. He is also an accomplished author.

In “After Angels,” a profile of Tony Kushner published in The New Yorker, John Lahr wrote: “[Kushner] gives voice to characters who have been rendered powerless by the forces of circumstances – a drag queen dying of AIDS, an uneducated Southern maid, contemporary Afghans – and his attempt to see all sides of their predicament has a sly subversiveness. He forces the audience to identify with the marginalized – a humanizing act of the imagination.” The following are just some of the awards and honors that Tony Kushner has received:

• Pulitzer Prize for Drama
• Emmy Award
• Two Tony Awards
• Three Obie Awards (Off-Broadway Theatre Awards)
• Arts Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
• PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theatre Award
• Spirit of Justice Award from the Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders
• Cultural Achievement Award from The National Foundation for Jewish Culture
• Chicago Tribune Literary Prize for lifetime achievement
• 2012 National Medal of Arts

In September 2008, Tony Kushner became the first recipient of the Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award, the largest theater award in the U.S. He is also the subject of a documentary film, Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner, made by the Oscar-winning filmmaker Freida Lee Mock. He lives in Manhattan with his husband, Mark Harris.

DONATIONS
If you are unable to attend the Pride Breakfast, but would like to support LGBTQIA students, click here to make an online donation.
At the bottom of the form, select "Other" under Gift Designation and then type in "LGBTQIA Leadership Scholarship".


Online registration for the Pride Breakfast is closed.