Programs · Dine & Dialogue
An evening with the author.
Twenty seats, one writer, a meal in the Mansion. Dine & Dialogue is the Filson's small-format literary series — a working historian, biographer, journalist, or novelist over dinner with readers who actually came to talk.
Next dinner
June 9
2026 · 6:00 PM
The Filson Historical Society
1310 South Third Street
Louisville, Kentucky
Seated dinner. Limited to twenty guests.
Featured author
American Bloodlines
Sonya Lea
Sonya Lea reads from and discusses her examination of American lynch culture and the long shadow it casts on the present. Conversation runs long into the dessert course.
About the series
The conversation, not the lecture.
Dine & Dialogue is what happens when you take a book event and shrink it down to twenty people sitting around a table. The author reads briefly — usually fifteen minutes, sometimes less — and then the room talks back. By the time dessert arrives the conversation has wandered through three centuries.
We host roughly six dinners a year. Tickets cover the meal and the program; a portion supports the Filson’s programs budget. Members receive priority registration a week before the public.