10:00 AM
EXHIBIT: “The Process of Book Illustrating”
Wed. March 20, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
This exhibit will feature artwork by Festival speaker Kate Samworth and Charlottesville artists Laura Lee Gulledge and Bob Anderson.
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Read & Lead Lunch with Douglas Brinkley
Wed. March 20, 11:45 AM - 1:30 PM
Douglas Brinkley, author of American Moonshot, will speak at the annual Read & Lead Lunch on March 20, 2019.
More »Tags: Biography / Memoir, Book Club Picks, Business, Current Affairs / World Affairs / War, Environment / Science, Global, Headliners, History, Nonfiction, Sports / Outdoors / Animals
12:00 PM
EXHIBIT: Deborah Willis at the Jefferson School African Heritage Center
Wed. March 20, 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location:
Jefferson School African American Heritage Center
233 4th St NW, Charlottesville, VA 22903
Presented by the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, this exhibit features two of the most recent bodies of work by photographer and video artist Deborah Willis, “In Pursuit of Beauty: Imaging Closets in Newark and Beyond” and “Representing Joan Baez’s ‘Civil War.'”
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Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. Printing Workshop #1
Wed. March 20, 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location:
Virginia Center for the Book
233 4th St NW, Charlottesville, VA 22903 (located in the Jefferson School City Center)
Printmaker Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. (2019 Frank Riccio Artist-in-Residence) will lead a printing workshop in the letterpress studio at the Virginia Center for the Book, as part of an intergenerational project that celebrates words of wisdom shared by diverse residents of Charlottesville and Albemarle County.
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1:00 PM
From Page to Stage: The Empty Pot
Wed. March 20, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Students from Albemarle County Public Schools Post High and Charlottesville High School Parkside will perform a play based on the book, The Empty Pot, by Demi. The lead teachers are Lindsay Jobe, Candy Taberner, Meredith Rider, and Rachel McLaughlin. The adaptation is written, produced, and directed by Dianne Gobbie.
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2:00 PM
James Monroe: A Republican Champion
Wed. March 20, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Brook Poston (James Monroe, A Republican Champion) presents his new biography, offering new interpretations of James Monroe and how he attempted to craft a legacy for himself as a champion of American republicanism.
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American Addictions: Our Opioids Crisis
Wed. March 20, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Location:
Jefferson School African American Heritage Center
233 4th St NW, Charlottesville, VA 22903
Beth Macy (Dopesick), and Chris McGreal (American Overdose) share the results of their many years of reporting on America’s opioid epidemic, where and how it began, the corporate greed at its epicenter, the innumerable lives affected, the ignored warnings, and the ongoing consequences, which touch every community.
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Embracing Power: Women and the Supernatural
Wed. March 20, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Location:
Barnes & Noble
1035 Emmet Street North, Barracks Road Shopping Center, Charlottesville, VA 22903
Authors Cai Emmons (Weather Woman) and Jessica Handler (The Magnetic Girl) discuss their work, including their characters’ mysterious and other-worldly connections in these captivating novels involving climate change, mystics, manipulation, and the exploration of a woman’s power.
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#Charlottesville: Perspectives on August 2017
Wed. March 20, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Claudrena Harold and Louis Nelson (Charlottesville 2017) join Hawes Spencer (Summer of Hate) in a discussion of the historic events of August 11 and 12, 2017, when alt-right hate groups descended on Charlottesville, Virginia.
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True Crime: Taking Back the Power
Wed. March 20, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Co-authors Victoria Bruce and William Oldfield (Inspector Oldfield and the Black Hand Society Review) and Patricia Miller (Bringing Down the Colonel) discuss incredible true stories that changed history and the research that went into their captivating books detailing those events.
More »Tags: Crime Wave, Current Affairs / World Affairs / War, Gender, History, Nonfiction, Social Justice
Poetics of Existence: A Reading
Wed. March 20, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
4:00 PM
Extraordinary Times: New Early American Histories
Wed. March 20, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Location:
UVa Harrison Institute / Small Special Collections
UVa Central Grounds, 160 McCormick Rd, Charlottesville, VA 22904
Robert Parkinson (The Common Cause) and Douglas Winiarski (Darkness Falls on the Land of Light) discuss their acclaimed books, presenting important new discoveries and voices from early American political and religious history, and examining themes that echo true today.
More »Tags: African-American, American Indian, Current Affairs / World Affairs / War, History, Nonfiction, Social Justice, Spirituality / Religion
Behind Closed Doors: Southern Literary Fiction
Wed. March 20, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Talley English (Horse), Michael Knight (Eveningland), and Kristyn Kusek Lewis (Half Of What You Hear) discuss their writing and intricately imagined characters, and the setting of the American South as an influence on their work.
More »Global Currents: Untethered Foreign Affairs
Wed. March 20, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
James Kirchick (The End of Europe) and Syaru Shirley Lin (Taiwan’s China Dilemma) unpack the issues in a changing landscape of twenty-first century foreign affairs.
More »Carol Troxell Reader: Jarrett Krosoczka
Wed. March 20, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
As the second annual Carol Troxell Reader, Jarrett Krosoczka (Hey, Kiddo) gives a solo reading, sharing his personal story and artwork from his acclaimed new memoir (for mature teens and adult readers).
More »Tags: Arts, Biography / Memoir, Book Club Picks, Comics / Graphic Novels, Family / Aging, Headliners, Health / Mind / Body, Humor, Nonfiction
Squeezed: Why Our Families Can’t Afford America
Wed. March 20, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Location:
Jefferson School African American Heritage Center
233 4th St NW, Charlottesville, VA 22903
Alissa Quart (Squeezed:Why Our Families Can’t Afford America), discusses her reporting, research, and personal experience covering the financial pressures on American families stemming from rising medical and childcare costs, harsh employment policies, underemployment, and more, in conversation with Allison Pugh.
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Enduring Heroines in Historical Fiction
Wed. March 20, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Location:
Barnes & Noble
1035 Emmet Street North, Barracks Road Shopping Center, Charlottesville, VA 22903
6:00 PM
“Baba, your story has truth in it, I like that. ..”
Wed. March 20, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Baba Jamal Koram unfolds children’s tales filled with the warmth of the African sun. Each conveys a lesson: of standing up for what’s right, caring for our earth and its animals, and believing in the good in everyone.
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Celebration of Challenge Into Change, featuring LaTanya McQueen
Wed. March 20, 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Listen to and honor the Women’s Initiative’s “Challenge Into Change” essay contest participants while celebrating the power of storytelling as a way towards healing and empowerment. LaTanya McQueen (And It Begins Like This) will read from her work, contest participants will be recognized, and the top three award recipients will read from their own work.
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JMRL Same Page Presents: Lisa See
Wed. March 20, 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Jefferson-Madison Regional Library’s Same Page community-wide reading series invites residents to discuss Lisa See’s novel, The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane. Tea Girl examines identity through the lens of cross-cultural adoption and Chinese ethnicities set in suburban California and the Tea Mountains of Yunnan Province. See will read from her work and take community questions before signing books, which will be available for purchase onsite.
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History Embodied: Public Monuments & Power—SOLD OUT
Wed. March 20, 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Location:
Jefferson School African American Heritage Center
233 4th St NW, Charlottesville, VA 22903
Charlottesville City Councilor Wes Bellamy (Monumental) and former Mayor of New Orleans Mitch Landrieu (In the Shadow of Statues) discuss their experiences working as elected representatives and examining the history behind and presented by public monuments in their cities.
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Ruth King: Mindful of Race
Wed. March 20, 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Engage in a discussion with the internationally renowned meditation teacher Ruth King (Mindful of Race) on topics of racism, white supremacy, and racial identity.
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Bus Lines Community Poetry Reading
Wed. March 20, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Bus Lines puts poetry on the move by soliciting poems from throughout the Charlottesville community and posting them on city buses. Our winning poets will share their work with the public in this lively, joyous, family-friendly reading. Come celebrate with us!
More »History Embodied: Public Monuments & Power—Live-stream Viewing
Wed. March 20, 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Charlottesville City Councilor Wes Bellamy (Monumental) and former Mayor of New Orleans Mitch Landrieu (In the Shadow of Statues) discuss their experiences working as elected representatives and examining the history behind and presented by public monuments in their cities.
More »Tags: African-American, Arts, Biography / Memoir, Current Affairs / World Affairs / War, Headliners, History, Nonfiction, Social Justice
6:30 PM
Happy Hour from Hell
Wed. March 20, 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Enjoy horrors and a happy hour with author Grady Hendrix (We Sold Our Souls) in advance of his performance, Paperbacks from Hell LIVE.
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Tech Wars: How Social Media Undermines Democracy
Wed. March 20, 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Kathleen Hall Jamieson (Cyberwar) and Siva Vaidhyanathan (Antisocial Media) discuss ways in which social media challenges contemporary democracy by undermining responsible journalism and supporting innumerable tools for false messages and interference in U.S. elections, among other tactics.
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8:00 PM
An Evening with Festival All-Stars: Lee Smith, Adriana Trigiani, and Douglas Brinkley
Wed. March 20, 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Lee Smith (Dimestore), Adriana Trigiani (Tony’s Wife), and Douglas Brinkley (American Moonshot) take the stage to share memories and swap stories, reflect on the evolution of all things literary in the past quarter-century, and discuss their own work, past, present, and future.
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Paperbacks from Hell LIVE
Wed. March 20, 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Grady Hendrix (Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of ’70s and ’80s Horror Fiction) presents a mind-melting live performance based on his book, which chronicles the history of horror genre paperbacks.
More »Tags: Arts, Fiction, Humor, Language / Culture / Folklife, Nonfiction, Publishing / Books / Writing
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