Valarie Kaur Keynote with Music by Qais Essar — Portland, OR
2025-10-17 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Rose City Park Presbyterian Church, Portland, OR
Valarie will offer a keynote with musical accompaniment by Qais Essar on Revolutionary Love and Sage Warrior, followed by Q&A and a book signing.
Location:
Rose City Park Presbyterian Church
1907 NE 45th Avenue
Portland, Oregon 97213
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Valarie Kaur Keynote with Music by Qais Essar — Atlanta, GA
2025-10-23 16:00 - 18:00 | Atlanta, GA
The Annual Rosemary Kittrell Memorial Lecture is an endowed lecture series that presents high-profile theologians and religious scholars to Trinity members as well as the public at no cost.
Valarie will offer a keynote with musical accompaniment by Qais Essar on Revolutionary Love and Sage Warrior, followed by a book signing.
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Valarie Kaur Keynote with Music by Qais Essar — Louisville, KY
2025-11-13 16:00 - 18:30 | Lousiville, KY
The 2025 Festival of Faiths will celebrate the interconnectedness of all people and the world we share. Together we will explore ways to cultivate communities of care, foster solidarity through empathy, and resist cultural systems that sow discord. Gather with us to discover a joy that honors our differences as we seek true belonging.

Individual session tickets are also available for purchase

Keynote Session Only: $35
All-Access Pass $175
Day Pass: $100
The event includes a book signing with Valarie Kaur after the event. Valarie’s books are not included in the ticket price. You may purchase a copy at your local bookstore.
You can watch the livestream or recording of the full festival and any segments on The Festival of Faiths YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/FestofFaiths
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Valarie Kaur Author Conversation and Supper Club in San Diego, CA
2025-11-18 18:00 - 20:00 | San Diego Made Factory, 2031 Commercial Street, San Diego, CA
We will gather at KhabaarCo—a global literary salon and supper club that highlights changemakers, activists, writers, and chefs—for an intimate evening of Revolutionary Love filled with deep conversation, food, and community building.

Madhushree Ghosh—award-winning author and founder of KhabaarCo—will join me in conversation about building beloved community and choosing courage. We’ll gather around my book Sage Warrior to share wisdom about how our ancestors survived authoritarian regimes.
My mother Dolly will also be joining us with a live food demo! She’ll show us how to make prashaad—an essential sweet in Sikhi, served as a blessing at every gurdwara after prayers. Together, Dolly and Madhushree will illuminate the art of feeding and what it means to be a good ancestor.
Ticket includes a copy of Sage Warrior, dinner & drinks from KhabaarCo & Punjabi Tandoor, and book signing.

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Valarie Kaur in Conversation with Lama Rod Owens - Virtual
2025-11-20 10:30 - 12:00
Join us for The Sacred Fire We Carry: Courage and Action for a Healing World with best-selling author and teacher Lama Rod Owens (author of The New Saints and Love & Rage) and celebrated activist and civil rights leader Valarie Kaur (author of Sage Warrior and See No Stranger). Together, they will illuminate how spiritually-grounded action can be a lifeline and transformative source of power—for ourselves, communities, and world.
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Valarie Kaur Keynote with Music by Qais Essar — Garden City, NY
2025-12-08 16:00 - 18:00 | Aldephi University, Garden City, NY
Join Valarie Kaur along with musician Qais Essar for an evening of grounding, inspiration, storytelling, music and wisdom.

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Valarie Kaur Keynote — Virtual
2026-01-25 11:00 - 13:00
You are warmly invited to join the annual statewide interfaith climate convening on Sunday, October 26th 1PM-6PM.
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The Annual Convening (formerly Conference) has been a core offering of Pennsylvania Interfaith Power & Light (PA IPL) for many years. It serves as a way to connect passionate individuals across the state, strengthen multifaith community, and build momentum to address climate change as a moral issue here in the Keystone State. This year, we are again presenting a fully virtual event!
As we work to build new worlds, we need our imaginations more than ever. Building on our theme of community care from our Bike and Hike in May, this year’s theme for our Annual Convening is Love Your Neighbor, Love Your World. Together we will explore how love guides our actions in relationship to our neighbors and our world. What does it mean to steward love in times of despair and injustice? How do we ground our labor for environmental justice in revolutionary love?
We will get started with an opening fireside chat with Valarie Kaur. After that, there will be a short welcome and orientation session led by the PA IPL team. We will then split into two tracks of afternoon workshops. Yes, you will have to choose, but don’t worry! These sessions will be recorded and available later to all registrants. During breaks in programming, you will be given opportunities to visit with our sponsors and partners to learn more about their incredible work. We will reconvene for a closing fireside conversation reflecting on 10 years of Laudato Si.
AGENDA:
1:00PM – 2:00PM – Opening Fireside Chat: A Conversation with Valarie Kaur*
2:15PM – Welcome and Orientation
2:15PM – 2:30PM – BREAK (15 minutes)
2:30PM – 3:30PM – Tracks – Session #1*
3:30PM-3:45PM – Break (15 minutes)
3:45PM-4:45PM – Tracks – Session #2*
4:45PM-5:00PM – Break (15 minutes)
5PM-6PM – Closing Fireside Chat: Reflecting on 10 years of Laudato Si*
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Valarie Kaur in Conversation with Faith Leaders - Los Angeles, CA
2026-02-24 18:00 - 20:30 | UCLA Bedari Kindness Institute, 337 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, CA, 90095
Compassionate Conversations by UCLA Bedari Kindness Institute presents:
A Multifaith Dialogue on Justice, Forgiveness, and Compassion
Featuring Valarie Kaur (Revolutionary Love Project), Father Greg Boyle (Homeboy Industries), Rabbi Sharon Brous (IKAR), and Imam Dr. Jihad Turk (Bayan Islamic Graduate School)
The UCLA Bedari Kindness Institute will begin the second year of its “Compassionate Conversations” series, featuring speakers who share a deep and humane commitment to engaging others with passion, compassion, empathy, and respect. A recurrent theme in the 2025-26 series will be “kindness to the stranger.”
In our deeply fractured world, religion serves both to connect and offer wisdom and to foster conflict and division. Over the course of centuries, it has been frequently invoked to justify brutal violence, but can it be an effective tool to advance justice? Together with distinguished faith leaders, we will explore what role faith traditions have played and should play in addressing persistent suffering and violence.
The speaking program will be followed by a reception and book signing with all authors.
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Sage Warrior Retreat with Valarie Kaur and Sonny Singh - Stockbridge, MA
2026-04-17 14:00 - 2026-04-19 13:30 | Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health, 57 Interlaken Road, Stockbridge, MA
Sage Warrior Retreat
Cultivating Courage in Uncertain Times
This is a historic moment. In Minneapolis and across the country, people are putting their bodies on the line in the face of brutality. As we witness the suffering unfolding around us, many of us are asking the same questions: What is mine to do? How do I show up?
This is a moment to gather.
I’m honored to invite you to the first-ever Sage Warrior Retreat—a weekend immersion in ancestral wisdom, music, and beloved community, April 17–19 at Kripalu in Massachusetts.
Register for the April 17-19 retreat here →
This gathering is a sacred pause in a world on fire: a space to reflect, listen, and awaken the courage within us that knows how to love in times like these.
This retreat is a living exploration of my book Sage Warrior as a catalyst for transformation—for your inner life, your relationships, and how you meet this moment in history. Guided by Sikh ancestral wisdom, song-prayers, and the practice of Revolutionary Love, we will journey together into what it means to become sage warriors: the sage sees through the eyes of love, and the warrior puts that love into action.
I will be joined by my longtime brother and acclaimed musician Sonny Singh, whose live musical meditations will drop us beneath the noise of the moment and open the doors of our hearts. Together, we will create a container that is both gentle and brave, a communal journey that unlocks insights for our lives and our labors.
This retreat is for seekers, leaders, caregivers, and anyone feeling called to meet this moment with integrity, clarity, and courage. No prior experience with activism, spirituality, or retreat spaces is required—only a willingness to listen deeply, reflect honestly, and show up with care.
Together, we will:

Explore the core teachings of Sage Warrior and Revolutionary Love
Practice seeing through the eyes of wonder and waking to Oneness
Learn to respond to the world not from the wound, but from wisdom
Attune to grief as a teacher, honoring the depth of love it reveals
Harness rage and listen to what it reveals about what truly matters
Build a sovereign inner space that offers the energy to be brave with our lives
Practice beloved community and fortify one another with courage

I want to acknowledge that the cost of an in-person retreat can be a real consideration. If joining us at Kripalu is not accessible for you at this time, you are warmly invited to participate in the live virtual Sage Warrior sessions, which carry the same spirit of reflection, practice, and courage.
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Sage Warrior Book Club
2026-05-07 16:00 - 2026-05-28 17:30 | Virtual
Sage Warrior Book Club
Ignite Your Deepest Courage
What does it look like to be brave with our lives? How do we meet this moment in history with love as our guide? In a world on fire, how do we find hope and joy?
Join me for a four-week virtual book club on Sage Warrior—a journey into ancestral wisdom and love in action. Guided by stories and song-prayers of Sikh ancestors and shaped by the urgent call of contemporary movements for justice, this experience offers a sacred space to ignite your deepest courage and meet this moment in your life and in history.
This is the first time I will lead an experience of this kind. It is a deep exploration of Sage Warrior as a catalyst for transformation—for your inner life, your relationships, and the world around you. Through her renowned storytelling, teaching, and meditations, we will invite you to cultivate the sage warrior within you: the sage sees through the eyes of love, and the warrior puts that love into action.
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This is not a traditional book discussion. It is a sacred communal journey—a space to pause, reflect, and practice Revolutionary Love alongside others who are longing to live with integrity, joy, and courage amid uncertainty and upheaval.
In this online experience, you will:

Explore the core teachings of Sage Warrior, rooted in Sikh ancestral wisdom and Revolutionary Love.
Practice seeing through the eyes of wonder and waking to Oneness.
Learn to respond to the world not from the wound, but from the seat of pleasure.
Build a sovereign space within that offers the energy to be brave with our lives.
Reclaim agency to practice the world we want in the space between us.
Attune to grief as a teacher, honoring the depth of love it reveals in this moment.
Harness rage as energy and discover what it reveals about what truly matters.
Learn how to meet conflict and injustice without losing our humanity.
Fortify one another with courage and practice beloved community together.

This book club is open to all—no prior experience with activism, spirituality, or book clubs is required. Only a willingness to listen deeply, reflect honestly, and show up with care.
This is more than a book club. It is an invitation to ignite the wisdom within you—and to practice love as a force powerful enough to transform ourselves and the world.
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DATES: May 7–28, 2026

TIME: 7:00–8:30 pm EST
LENGTH: 6 hours total
Cost: $99-149 total (for all 4 weeks)
Thursdays 5/7, 5/14, 5/21, and 5/28, from 7:00–8:30 pm EST
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