Program - VaBook! 2005

Updates, Cancellations & Corrections

The Virginia Festival of the Book maintains a list of up-to-date corrections and cancellations of VABook! events to keep our audience aware of any unforeseen changes in the program. Feel free to check this page before and during the festival for updates.

The following readings/panels will proceed with these updates:

Wednesday, March 16

2 p.m. Living and Dancing: A Poetry Reading
Marie Howe is ill and will be unable to attend. Program will continue as scheduled with Ilya Kaminsky (Dancing in Odessa). VABook! participant Gregory Orr (The Caged Owl) will also read.
UVa Bookstore, UVa Central Grounds
4 p.m. Virginia Getaways: Guidebooks
Trish Foxwell will be unable to attend the festival. The program will continue with authors Hilde Gabriel Lee (Virginia Wine Country) and Katie Moose (Chesapeake’s Bounty II).
Downtown Visitors Center
100 5th Street, NE

Friday, March 18

10 a.m. Let Them Eat Fiction
Jeanne Ray will be unable to attend the festival. The program will continue with Laura Pedersen (Beginner’s Luck, Last Call).
New Dominion Bookshop, 404 E. Market Street
4 p.m. Found in Translation: Writing Across Cultures
Han Ong will be unable to attend the festival. The program will continue with Vyvyane Loh (Breaking the Tongue), Pearl Abraham (The Seventh Beggar) and Esmeralda Santiago (The Turkish Lover).
UVa Bookstore, UVa Central Grounds

The following panel has undergone a time change:

Friday, March 18

11 a.m. ( originally 10 a.m.)

Through the Kaleidoscope: Views in Fiction and Painting
Join the husband-wife team of novelist Ann Beattie and painter Lincoln Perry as they discuss the intersections of and influences on each other’s work.
UVa Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Road

The following program's address was listed incorrectly in the printed program:

Sunday, March 20

Noon - 4 p.m.

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

Festival Policies

Book signing: VABook! thanks its booksellers for their invaluable contribution toward making the festival possible. Booksellers do allow you to bring your own books to events for signing. However, as a courtesy to the booksellers, please allow attendees purchasing books on site to be given priority in book signing lines.

Ticket return: For the few events which require purchased tickets (luncheons, breakfasts, receptions) the festival will not refund ticket purchases after March 7. Attendance numbers at events are required in advance, and there can be no returns after that date.

Photographs, sound and video of festival events, participants and by-standers may be used by the Virginia Festival of the Book and the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities for publicity and promotional purposes. Media capture at events is reserved for authorized media participants who have sought permission in advance from VABook! and VFH; outlets may broadcast that media with permission.

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