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Produced by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.
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FESTIVAL RATING - "GREAT" OR "EXCELLENT"
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94% |
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NUMBER OF PROGRAMS
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183 |
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NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS
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298 |
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Authors and writers
Publishers, editors, and other professionals
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265
33
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TOTAL AUDIENCE
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13,520 |
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| AUDIENCE PROFILE |
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From Charlottesville/ Albemarle
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54%
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Other Virginia
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34%
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Out-of-state (Including AR,AZ,CT,FL,GA,IL,IN, KY, LA, MA, MD, MI, NC, NJ, NM, NY, OH, PA, TN, and WV)
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11%
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Audience Staying Overnight
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21%
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FESTIVAL INFORMATION OBTAINED
(multiple responses per survey)
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Newspaper coverage/ The Daily Progress Tabloid Program
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29%
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Received Advance Program in the mail
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23%
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Word of mouth
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19%
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Web site
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13%
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Radio
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5%
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TV
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4%
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Magazine
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1%
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Other
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6%
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"Each March, Charlottesville becomes a literary wonderland as the annual Virginia Festival of the Book creates a town filled with bookworms from near and far" - Albemarle, February/March 2000
"That’s the thing about culture, about society. It’s a mutual endeavor, a kind of cooperation, a balance of give-and-take. The Festival of the Book both exemplifies and promotes that mutuality." - Daily Progress, March 22, 2000
"A sort of Woodstock of Words…[this] event unleashes dozens of novelists and poets and non-fiction writers on the city of Charlottesville...It’s a time when books talk...and writers climb out of their book jackets to become three-dimensional characters themselves." - Lynchburg News and Advance, March 12, 2000
"Charlottesville draws writers the way Nashville beckons to musicians." - Southern Living, February 1998
March 21 - 25
Charlottesville, VA
For more information contact:
The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities,
145 Ednam Drive,
Charlottesville, VA 22903
(804) 924-3296
email: vabook@virginia.edu
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