Join Us for the Free Sonoma County Book Festival!
Saturday, September 24, 2011
10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Santa Rosa Downtown Courthouse Square and Central Library
Join us for a full day of exciting literary and literacy activities for the entire family! Check out these enticing new features:
• Added venues at La Rosa Tequileria & Grille, Mary’s Pizza Shack and Corrick’s
• A full day of contemporary programs for teens
• Storytellers for grown ups
• The delightful and entertaining Secret Agent Jack Stalwart Treasure Hunt for kids and their families.
Plus, don’t miss these always-popular Book Festival activities: Gaye LeBaron’s local history panel, presentation by dozens of renowned authors, engaging panel discussions, the Redwood Writers Village, nearly 100 exhibitors, and much more! See www.socobookfest.org for details, as well as the full schedule of events below.
Central Library Forum Room
211 E Street
10 a.m. Tatjana Soli
10:45 Break
11:00 Ann Packer
11:45 Carol Edgarian
12:30 Break
12:45 Belva Davis and Vicki Haddock
1:30 Carolyn Cooke
2:15 Break
2:30 Jane Hirshfield
3:15 Andrew Lam
La Rosa Restaurant Tequileria & Grille
500 Fourth Street
10 a.m. Book Biz Panel
11:15 Break
11:30 Shots Happen: A Mix of Mystery Writers
12:45 Break
1:00 The Sky Is High and So Am I: Alternative Subjects Panel
2:15 Break
2:30 Maxine Hong Kingston with the Veterans Writing Group
Corrick’s
637 Fourth Street
10 a.m. Gaye LeBaron History Panel
11 a.m. Break
11:15 Tracy Seeley
Noon: Michael David Lukas
12:45 Break
1:00 Elena Shapiro
1:45 Break
2:00 – 3:15 Sonoma County Storytellers
3:15 – 4:30 Dave Pokorny, West Side Stories
Mary’s Pizza Shack, Party Room
615 Fourth St.
Young Adult Program
10 a.m. Advice for Teen Writers
11:15 Break
11:30 Save the Drama for Your Mama: Contemporary YA Fiction
12:45 Break
1:00 Daisy Whitney
1:45 Vampires, Ghosts and Zombies, Oh My! Paranormal Fiction for Young Adults
Note: The finale for the Teen Poetry Slam will be 3-4 p.m. at the Literary Arts Guild tent.
Literary Arts Guild Tent
Courthouse Square
10:30 a.m. Screenwriters Panel
Noon: Zoe Fitzgerald Carter
12:45 Break
1:00 Stacy Carlson
1:45 Break/Poetry Slam Registration
2:00 – 4:00 Teen Poetry Slam
Main Stage
Courthouse Square
10 a.m. Megan McDonald
10:30 Poetry: When Last on the Mountain Anthology with Donna Emerson, Arlene Mandell and Vicky Lettman
11:30 Poetry: Christina Hutchins, Jeanne Wagner, Al Young
12:30 Poetry: Catherine Strisik, Lee Slonimsky, Francisco Alarcon
1:30 Poetry: Judy Halebsky, Shawn Pittard
2:00 Break
2:15 Juicy Tomatoes, a word-for-word production of the book by Susan Swartz
3:00 Break
3:15 “Flash Fiction Has Arrived,” lead by author Meg Pokrass
Peanuts Pavilion, Courthouse Square
Children’s Program
10:30 Magical Moonshine Theatre Puppet Show
11:15 Bilingual storytelling with Marcella
12:00 Wooleycats (interactive music for young children)
12:30 Elizabeth Singer Hunt Mission Possible workshop
1:15 Magical Moonshine Theatre—Carnival Mask
2:00 Cleopatra “Serpent of the Nile,” with the Thinking Girl’s Treasury of Dastardly Dames
2:15 Michael Ross, author & naturalist
2:45 Marie Antionette “Madame Deficit,” with the Thinking Girl’s Treasury of Dastardly Dames
3:00 Fratello Marionettes Vaudeville Skits
3:30 Secret Agent Jack Stalwart Treasure Hunt Winners!
Ongoing throughout day:
Secret Agent Jack Stalwart Treasure Hunt
Schulz Museum Drawing Booth
Learn to draw Scooby Doo, Tom and Jerry, Disney princesses and more!
Paws for Reading
Redwood Writers Village
10 a.m. The Sitting Room
11 a.m. Broad Universe: Rapid Fire Readings
11:30 Journalists, Bloggers, New Journalism
Noon: Redwood Writers Memoir Contest Winners
12:30 Sisters in Crime
1:00 Vintage Voices Anthology
1:45 Women’s National Book Association
2:00 Wisdom Has a Voice Anthology
3:00 Bay Area Independent Publishers Assn.
3:30 Book Festival Raffle – Grand Prize Winner
3:45 Redwood Writers Raffle Winner Reading
  
  
  
 
  
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