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Program - VABook! 2005
Sunday, March 20
Writing and Publishing Workshops
This year the festival will feature paid workshops on the craft of writing and the world of publishing from the Charlottesville Writing Center and Tupelo Press on Sunday of the festival. See our Related Events page for more information.
11:45 a.m.
Celebration Brunch (presented by The Links, Inc.)
Join festival authors and community members for a special brunch celebrating
the African American Literary Tradition. Advance tickets only. Call: 434-961-5372
or email tturner@pvcc.edu
Omni Hotel, Salon A
235 W. Main Street
Noon
Old-Time Radio: Children's Stories
Tune in to WTJU 91.1 FM to hear the cast of Tell Us A Tale share some of their favorite classic children's stories and folktales from around the globe. Some youngsters from the Central Virginia area may also stop by to recite poetry from the likes of Shel Silverstein and Jack Prelutsky. Radio: WTJU 91.1 FM
Open House: The Virginia Arts of the Book Center
Join the artists of the Virginia Arts of the Book Center from noon to 4 p.m. for a look at the new workshop-studio space in the Frank Ix complex. The VABC is eager to meet friends of letterpress and related book arts in the area. Drop in: they'll be printing and demonstrating their work. Frank Ix complex, 977 Second Street SE, between Monticello and Elliot Avenues
1:30 p.m.
Where We Stand: Voices of Southern Dissent
With contributors Paul Gaston, Sheldon Hackney and Gene Nichol. (South Atlantic
Humanities Center)McIntire Room, Central Library
201 E. Market Street
Festival of the Altered Book
Gallery Exhibition and discussion exploring the book—recycled, altered,
revalued and renewed in shape and context—as art. Multi-media works by local
collage artists Terri Long and Rhonda Roebuck. Nature Visionary
Art Gallery
110 Fourth Street
A Conversation with Geraldine Brooks
Brooks discusses her latest novel, March, on the Civil War experiences
of Mr. March, the absent father of Alcott’s Little Women. Moderated
by Tony Horwitz. (The Wrightbridge Company, Inc.) UVa Culbreth
Theatre
UVa Central Grounds
Gender Differences: How Significant Are They?
With Steven E. Rhoads (Taking Sex Differences Seriously) and Andrea
Buchanan (Mother Shock). UVa Bookstore
UVa Central Grounds
In Focus: National Geographic Greatest Portraits
With National Geographic photographers William Albert Allard, Nick
Nichols and David Alan Harvey. Piedmont Virginia Community
College, Dickinson Theater
501 College Drive
An Afternoon with Ron Rash: Fiction Reading
Ron Rash reads from and discusses his novel, Saints at the River.
Piedmont Virginia Community College, Jessup Library
501 College Drive
3 p.m.
Charlottesville Cooks International
Come even if you're on a diet! Blue Ridge English as a Second Language Council
(BRESL) shares recipes and stories about food from its cookbook, Charlottesville
Cooks International. McIntire Room, Central Library
201 E. Market Street
Jambalaya: A Literary Feast
Young writers read selections published during the last year in Jambalaya,
a magazine by, for, and about middle school girls. Village
School
215 E. High Street
What’s in a Song?
Songwriters Jan Vogelsang Smith, Malcolm Holcombe, and Brady Earnhart discuss
their work. Gravity Lounge
103 S. First Street
Landscape and Legacy: A Poetry Reading
With poets Harry Brown (Everything Is Its Opposite), Eric Trethewey
(Songs and Lamentations), and Karenne Wood (Markings on Earth).
Jaberwoke
1517 University Avenue
Memoirs of Change and Growth
With Barbara Feinberg (Welcome to Lizard Motel), Claudia Ford (Why
Do I Scream at God for the Rape of Babies?), and David Wyatt (And the
War Came: An Accidental Memoir). New Dominion Bookshop
404 E. Main Street
Gay and Transgender Rights: Science, History, and Law
With Deborah Rudacille (The Riddle of Gender: Science, Activism, and Transgender
Rights), Nicholas Edsall (Toward Stonewall: Homosexuality and Society
in the Modern Western World) and Robert O’Neil (The First Amendment
and Civil Liability). (Thomas Jefferson Center for Protection of Free Expression,
UVa Gay Pride.) UVa Bookstore
UVa Central Grounds
7 p.m.
Brady Earnhart and Malcolm Holcombe at Gravity Lounge
Enjoy the music of Earnhart and Holcombe in a relaxed, book-filled environment.
Cover charge is $8, special $5 admission to those who attend the 3 p.m. songwriting
discussion. Gravity Lounge
103 S. First Street
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