Sunday
March 24

Sunday, March 24

Noon - 2 p.m.

Tell Us A Tale

Peter Jones, host of Tell Us a Tale and the third, fourth and fifth grade students from Free Union Country School as they read some of the classic beginning readers' Book from everyone's childhood. Contact: Peter Jones at WTJU, 978-3603.

WTJU 91.1 FM radio station - on the air!

1:30 – 3 p.m

For Crying Out Loud

A group poetry reading with Joan Rough, Charlotte Matthews, Dan Bieker, Susan Hull, Susan Imhof, Judy Longley and Kristen Rembold.

Village School

Family Ties

Explore parenting with author George Conway (Giving Good Gifts: The Spiritual Journey of Parenthood) and authors Jerry Saffer and F. Daniel McClure (Wednesdays and Every Other Weekend: From Divorced Dad to Competent Co-parent).

McIntire Room, Central Library

The Quantum and the Lotus

A conversation about the intersections of Buddhism and science, with author Trinh Xuan Thuan and anthropologist Roy Wagner.

Student Bookstore

Dreamspeak

How to understand the messages in your dreams to change your life for the better with Rosemary Ellen Guiley, PhD.

Quest Bookshop

3 – 4:30 p.m.

Jambalaya

A reading by contributors to Jambalaya magazine, produced for and by middle school girls.

Village School

Live Poets

A poetry and literary reading by Joyce Broughton, Katherine Borges, Cheryl Bryan, Anne Cressin, Beverly Harner, Paula White Jackson, Jean Sampson and Hilda Ward with a brief discussion of creative art as therapy and healing.

McIntire Room, Central Library

Caregiving: Self-discovery, Service or Stress?

Susan Carol Stone reads from At the Eleventh Hour: Caring for My Dying Mother, inviting group discussion and experience sharing.

Quest Bookshop

The Writer Next Door

The Charlottesville Writing Center celebrates its fifth anniversary with a faculty-student reading. Round out the Book Festival on Sunday afternoon with writers Browning Porter (poetry), Kathleen Phalen (nonfiction), and Hilary Steinitz (fiction) and their students.

C-ville Coffee Company

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