Evenings at Ideas Featuring Hope is a Muscle $200

5:00 pm – 6:30 pm | Evenings at Ideas

Enjoy creative global cuisine throughout the Marble Garden Village, from a Michelin Star-winning Mexico City taqueria to Japanese bites from Matsuhisa. Sip JUSTIN Wines and Free Spirits non alcoholic drinks, or cocktails from Woody Creek Distillery. Don’t miss the Culinary Conversation featuring Milk Bar’s Christina Tosi and listen in as the All-American Rejects bring their pop-up tour to a meadow on campus. Then check out the evening session in the McNulty Room before a nightcap at West End Social.

5:15 pm – 5:45 pm | Culinary Conversation and Tasting

Christina Tosi, a pastry chef who disliked the finicky presentations of high-end restaurants, had a charming idea: Give people ice cream in the flavor of the milk left at the bottom of the cereal bowl. Cereal milk catalyzed Milk Bar into the global brand it’s known as today. Tosi shares how her whimsical global brand came to be, and why she used her background in engineering to give it staying power.  Christina Tosi with Interviewer: Corby Kummer

5:45 pm – 6:15 pm | The All-American Rejects: NPR Music Field Recording

The All-American Rejects bring their cross-country pop-up tour to Aspen for a stripped-down set filled with 2000s nostalgia. In collaboration with NPR Music and the team behind Tiny Desk, Field Recordings at Aspen Ideas brings artists off the beaten path for intimate, unamplified performances across the Institute’s stunning 40-acre campus. A rare musical experience in harmony with nature.

6:30 pm – 7:30 pm | Hope is a Muscle

In this special live taping of the On Being podcast, Peabody Award-winning host Krista Tippett sits down with acclaimed author and MacArthur Fellow Jason Reynolds for a conversation between friends on the nature of muscular hope. Grounded in reality rather than idealism, this kind of hope is a daily discipline—a choice to face the world as it is, while still working toward what could be. Together, they explore how hope becomes a force for resilience, imagination, and action.  Jason Reynolds, Krista Tippett

7:30 pm – 8:30 pm | Nightcap: Point/Counterpoint—Trust

Trust. We say we want it, but do we even know what it is? Maybe it’s a virtue. Maybe it’s a trap. Can we ever rebuild it once it’s broken? Two philosophers walk into a bar (well, almost) to debate the nature of trust, its limits, and its possibilities. Come for the big questions—stay for the barstool epiphanies. Tamar Gendler, Samuel Kimbriel