11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
The City Library, Auditorium
Stephen Trimble will host a panel to discuss his new book, Bargaining for Eden: The Fight for the Last Open Spaces in America, which explores how we make decisions as a community about the landscapes we love. One of the pivotal stories in his book is the controversial land exchange at Snowbasin Ski Area that privatized public land that generations of local citizens held dear. In this panel, Steve will lead a conversation with three key participants in the land trade: Joan Degiorgio (The Nature Conservancy); Gale Dick (Save Our Canyons); and Joro Walker (Western Resource Advocates). Each has dedicated years to open space and conservation issues in Utah. Each is a "character" in the book and appears in the story at many levels of engagement. In this lively discussion, we will look for lessons in the Snowbasin story and guidance for the future of open spaces in Utah and in America.
The City Library, Conference Rooms A/B
Join Ann Cannon and teen friends as they present a reading from her new book, A Loser’s Guide to Life and Love, centered on the star-crossed crushes that make for hilarious misunderstandings as Ed, the central character, guides his life toward disaster in this fresh, contemporary twist on Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream.
The City Library, Conference Room C
Erika Marie Bsumek is the author of Indian-Made: Navajo Culture in the Marketplace, 1868–1940, in which sheunravels the layers of meaning that surround the branding of “Indian made.” When Navajo artisans produced their goods, collaborating traders, tourist industry personnel, and even ethnologists created a vision of Navajo culture that had little to do with Navajos themselves. Examining varied sites of production—artisans’ workshops, museums, trading posts—Bsumek shows how the market economy perpetuated “Navaho” stereotypes and cultural assumptions. Bsumek is assistant professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.
The City Library, Level 4 Conference Room
Nationally recognized artist Pilar Pobil will be introduced by Robert Newman, Associate Vice President for Interdisciplinary Studies, and Dean of the College of Humanities at the University of Utah. Ms. Pobil will read from her memoir, My Kitchen Table: Sketches from My Life, followed by a conversation with Newman about her work, her book and her intriguing life experiences. My Kitchen Table: Sketches From My Life is the autobiographical reminisces presented to the reader as she had originally told them around her kitchen table to her children, with one very special difference: Pobil enhances those already engaging biographical stories with fifty full color reproductions of her paintings and sculptures.
Sponsored by the College of Humanities, University of Utah.
The City Library, Level 2 Canteena
Jana Richman will talk about her most recent novel, The Last Cowgirl. Set entirely in Utah – Salt Lake City and Utah’s west desert – The Last Cowgirl spans vast landscapes and two generations of the folks in a small ranching community, the background for which is one of Utah’s most disturbing historical events, the 1968 nerve gas accident, which resulted in the death of 6,000 sheep in Utah’s west desert in Tooele County. Richman is a Tooele County native with first-hand recollections of the historical incident.
The City Library, Children’s Craft Room
Children’s Bookmaking. Underage bookmakers start from scratch as they create and decorate their own books.
Presented by the Book Arts Program, Marriott Library, University of Utah.
The City Library, Level 1 Fireplace
Join Book Arts Program staff to learn about and participate in a wide variety of activities!
- Papermaking: learn how to turn pulp into paper and take home your very own handmade sheet
- Printing: hand print your very own book festival keepsake on a tabletop clamshell press
- Bookbinding Demonstration: learn from the best as professional bookbinders demonstrate the methods they use in binding books
- Adult Bookmaking: discover several ways to fashion books, all easily adaptable to your own creative impulses.
Presented by the Book Arts Program, Marriott Library, University of Utah.
SLCC, Community Writing Center, Library Square
This I Believe, Writing Workshop
The Community Writing Center will hold “This I Believe” writing workshops for seniors in the week prior to the Utah Humanities Book Festival. On the day of the Book Festival the CWC will stage a public reading of “This I Believe” essays written by the seniors and by participants in two “This I Believe” writing workshops held at the CWC prior to the book festival.
Sponsored by The Community Writing Center, Salt Lake Community College.
12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
The City Library, Auditorium
Richard Peck has written over twenty novels, and in the process has become one of America's most highly respected writers for young adults. The title of his presentation is, "Celebration of real books in an age of Facebook." The books he will emphasize and read from are Past, Perfect, Present Tense; On the Wings of Heroes; River Between Us; and Teacher's Funeral.
A versatile writer, he is beloved by middle graders as well as young adults for his mysteries and coming-of-age novels.
Sponsored in part by the Utah Council of Teachers of English.
The City Library, Conference Rooms A/B
"Wallace Stegner's Utah: A Conversation at the Centennial." Wallace Stegner discovered who he was when he left Utah in 1930 to teach in Iowa for two years. “Homesickness,” he wrote years later, “is a great teacher. It taught me, during an endless rainy fall, that I came from the arid lands, and liked where I came from. I missed the color and smell of sagebrush, and the sight of bare ground.” On the centennial of his birth, this panel will celebrate his work and his relationship with his home landscape--a discussion that can't help but illuminate our relationship with the same landscape. Panelist include Will Bagley (Wallace Stegner Fellow at the Tanner Humanities Center), Robert C. Steensma (author of Wallace Stegner’s Salt Lake City), and Stephen Trimble, (Wallace Stegner Fellow at the Tanner Humanities Center).
The City Library, Conference Room C
Poetry Reading with Idris Anderson and Katharine Coles. Join Idris Anderson, Winner of the 2008 May Swenson Poetry Award, and Katharine Coles, Poet Laureate of Utah, as they read from their most recent publications. Anderson’s award-winning book , Mrs. Ramsay’s Knee, Volume 12 in the Swenson Poetry Award Series, offers fresh and elegant poems, many of them considerations of visual works of art. Among her subjects are paintings by Rembrandt, Rousseau, Pollock, and Chagall, yet she equally explores a set of news photos from the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah. Coles’ fourth collection of poems, Fault, was released from Red Hen Press in June of 2008. Previous books include three poetry collections, The Golden Years of the Fourth Dimension, A History of the Garden, and The One Right Touch, and two novels, Fire Season and The Measurable World. In 2006, she was named to a five-year term as Poet Laureate of Utah.
The City Library, Level 4 Conference Room
Sherri Haab’s newest book, Felt, Fiber, and Fabric Jewelry: 20 Beautiful Projects to Bead, Stitch, Knot, and Braid, provides exciting new ideas for wonderful, small projects that won’t get stuck in a drawer. Inspired by the ancient need to use whatever materials were available to create adornments, including feathers, fiber, or braided cord, Haab offers projects are wonderful to gift or wear, easy enough for beginning crafters, and requiring only a minimal investment in materials. Haab is the award-winning author of twenty-one crafting books.
The City Library, Level 2 Canteena
Altered Books Workshop for Teens (12:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.)
Create works of art from old children's board books. These "altered books" make great gifts, journals or art objects. The possibilities are endless. While supplies last.
Sponsored by The City Library.
The City Library, Children’s Craft Room
Children’s Bookmaking
Underage bookmakers start from scratch as they create and decorate their own books.
Presented by the Book Arts Program, Marriott Library, University of Utah.
The City Library, Level 1 Fireplace
Join Book Arts Program staff to learn about and participate in a wide variety of activities!
- Papermaking: learn how to turn pulp into paper and take home your very own handmade sheet
- Printing: hand print your very own book festival keepsake on a tabletop clamshell press
- Bookbinding Demonstration: learn from the best as professional bookbinders demonstrate the methods they use in binding books
- Adult Bookmaking: discover several ways to fashion books, all easily adaptable to your own creative impulses.
Presented by the Book Arts Program, Marriott Library, University of Utah.
SLCC, Community Writing Center, Library Square
Writing as Cinderella: Using Fairytales for Inspiration, Writing Workshop (1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.)
There are many versions of Cinderella from different countries. This fun workshop presented by The SLCC Community Writing Center will use the classic fairy tale to explore imaginative writing. Guest instructor, LuaJuana Taylor, was a former school-teacher and writing specialist.
2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
The City Library, Auditorium
Terry Tempest Williams is the author of the newly published book Finding Beauty in a Broken World. Always an impassioned and farsighted advocate for a just relationship between humankind and the natural world, Williams has broadened her concerns over the last few years to encompass a redefined sense of family, community, and species. It is this change that compels her search for “beauty in a broken world.” She begins in Ravenna, Italy, where “jeweled ceilings become lavish tales” through the art of mosaic. She returns to the American southwest, her physical and spiritual home, where, observing a clan of prairie dogs on the brink of extinction, she apprehends a primal definition of community. And finally, she travels to a small town in Rwanda, where she helps to build a memorial to the victims of the 1994 genocide and begins to sense the healing and richness of experience inherent in acceptance.
The City Library, Conference Rooms A/B
Ronald Walker, Richard Turley Jr., and Glen Leonard are the authors of Massacre at Mountain Meadows. On September 11, 1857, a band of Mormon militia, under a flag of truce, lured unarmed members of an emigrant company from their fortified encampment and, with some Paiute Indians, killed them. Massacre at Mountain Meadows offers the most thoroughly researched account of the massacre ever written. Drawn from documents previously not available to scholars and a careful re-reading of traditional sources, this gripping narrative offers fascinating new insight into why Mormon settlers in isolated southern Utah deceived the emigrant party with a promise of safety and then killed the adults and all but seventeen of the youngest children. Neither a whitewash nor an expose, Massacre at Mountain Meadows provides the clearest and most accurate account of a key event in American religious history.
The City Library, Conference Room C
Authors Paul Fleischman and Sara Zarr discuss “Current Trends in Adolescent and Children’s Literature.” Fleischman comments, "Children's books used to be a refuge from adult trends; they've been invaded." The constant change in technology is obviously mirrored in the lives of young adults and children. "The speed [of] computer technology...has leaked into life as a whole." We see young people growing and changing in a similarly fast pace. Zarr comments that the core issues in teen fiction will always be "Identity, family, the longing for love, home, and acceptance," but one must pause to wonder how these relevant issues will continue to be addressed in a quickly changing world with quickly changing standards and means of communication.
Fleishman and Zarr are sponsored in part by UCTE (Utah Council of Teachers of English)
The City Library, Level 4 Conference Room
Join one of Utah’s most famous romance novelists, RaeAnne Thayne, as she discusses “The Appeal of Romance.” The romance genre continues to outsell every other sector of the publishing industry and that trend shows every indication of continuing. Thayne will discuss why readers respond so favorably to romance novels and how readers can find the best books the genre has to offer.
The City Library, Level 2 Canteena
Altered Books Workshop for Teens (12:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.)
Create works of art from old children's board books. These "altered books" make great gifts, journals or art objects. The possibilities are endless. While supplies last.
Sponsored by The City Library.
The City Library, Children’s Story Room
The Starry-Eyed Puppets are a professional puppet theater company that has been performing original puppet entertainment for active minds of all ages since 1999. Don't miss their show "Bugged: Irritating Tales from OBEE City". Join the fun as we explore irritating things like bad rock bands, bad poetry, the baddest bug of all -- the common cold -- all honey glazed and hammed up with the main puppet event: "The Honeybee who Wanted to Bee Bad." Bee there!
The City Library, Children’s Craft Room
Children’s Bookmaking.
Underage bookmakers start from scratch as they create and decorate their own books.
Presented by the Book Arts Program, Marriott Library, University of Utah.
The City Library, Level 1 Fireplace
Join Book Arts Program staff to learn about and participate in a wide variety of activities!
- Papermaking: learn how to turn pulp into paper and take home your very own handmade sheet
- Printing: hand print your very own book festival keepsake on a tabletop clamshell press
- Bookbinding Demonstration: learn from the best as professional bookbinders demonstrate the methods they use in binding books
- Adult Bookmaking: discover several ways to fashion books, all easily adaptable to your own creative impulses.
Presented by the Book Arts Program, Marriott Library, University of Utah.
SLCC, Community Writing Center, Library Square
Writing as Cinderella: Using Fairytales for Inspiration, Writing Workshop (1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.)
There are many versions of Cinderella from different countries. This fun workshop presented by The SLCC Community Writing Center will use the classic fairy tale to explore imaginative writing. Guest instructor, LuaJuana Taylor, was a former school-teacher and writing specialist.
3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
The City Library, Auditorium
Honor Moore is the author of recently published memoir, The Bishop’s Daughter. Paul Moore’s vocation as an Episcopal priest took him—with his wife Jenny and a family that grew to nine children—from robber-baron wealth to work among the urban poor of postwar America, prominence as an activist bishop in Washington during the Johnson years, leadership in the civil rights and peace movements, and two decades as the bishop of New York. The Bishop’s Daughter is a daughter’s story of that complex, visionary man: a chronicle of her turbulent relationship with a father who struggled privately with his sexuality while she was openly explored hers, and a searching account of the consequences of sexual secrets. With a depth of questioning that recalls James Carroll’s An American Requiem, this memoir engages the reader in the great issues of American life: war, race, family, sexuality, and faith.
The City Library, Conference Rooms A/B
Jared Farmer is the author of On Zion's Mount: Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape.Farmer will present a summary of his book and engage the audience in a discussion about the challenges and opportunities of writing and publishing Utah / Mormon history while living outside of Utah. From his unique perspective on Utah history, Farmer will share thoughts and tips on how to write for Mormons and non-Mormons, locals and non-locals, westerners and easterners.
The City Library, Conference Room C
Wanda Coleman will discuss her fiction writing with the audience as a compliment to her poetry reading at Westminster College. Coleman’s latest collection of short stories is Jazz and Twelve O’Clock Tales (2008). Her work has cultural roots deep into Tennessee and Mississippi, Arkansas and Oklahoma, roots absorbed and twisted into a distinctly urban poetic voice uniquely Californian. She has been a major influence on west coast music and spoken word scenes since1974. Her honors include Guggenheim and NEA fellowships, an Emmy in Daytime Drama writing, and the 1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize.
The City Library, Level 4 Conference Room
Jeff McCarthy will share experiences in writing his latest book, Contact: Mountain Climbing and Environmental Thinking with a presentation that mixes images and words. Contact proposes that mountain climbers enact our culture's predominant attitudes toward nature -- from conquest to caretaking to connection. McCarthy's presentation centers on bright images from steep climbs. The conversation will examine climbing's environmental heritage, and climbing's significance to contemporary environmental dilemmas.
The City Library, Level 2 Canteena
How to Make a Zine Workshop (3:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.)
Beat Chapbooks. Paine's Common Sense. Luther's Theses. Ten Commandments. All Zines.
Learn how to get your own thoughts down on paper, formatted, and distributed all from the convenience of your table.
Sponsored by the Salt Lake City Public Library Alternative Press.
The City Library, Children’s Story Room
The Starry-Eyed Puppets are a professional puppet theater company that has been performing original puppet entertainment for active minds of all ages since 1999. Don't miss their show "Bugged: Irritating Tales from OBEE City". Join the fun as we explore irritating things like bad rock bands, bad poetry, the baddest bug of all -- the common cold -- all honey glazed and hammed up with the main puppet event: "The Honeybee who Wanted to Bee Bad." Bee there!
The City Library, Children’s Craft Room
Children’s Bookmaking.
Underage bookmakers start from scratch as they create and decorate their own books.
Presented by the Book Arts Program, Marriott Library, University of Utah.
The City Library, Level 1 Fireplace
Join Book Arts Program staff to learn about and participate in a wide variety of activities!
- Papermaking: learn how to turn pulp into paper and take home your very own handmade sheet
- Printing: hand print your very own book festival keepsake on a tabletop clamshell press
- Bookbinding Demonstration: learn from the best as professional bookbinders demonstrate the methods they use in binding books
- Adult Bookmaking: discover several ways to fashion books, all easily adaptable to your own creative impulses.
Presented by the Book Arts Program, Marriott Library, University of Utah.
SLCC, Community Writing Center, Library Square
Teen Poetry Slam.
Unleash your inner poet and join The King's English and the Community Writing Center for a Teen Poetry Slam. From iambic pentameter to rap, anything goes! Poets will have three minutes to perform their own, original work. Prizes will be provided by the CWC and TKE and awarded based on audience response.
Sign-up will begin at 3:15 p.m.
Sponsored by The King’s English and the Community Writing Center.
5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
The City Library, Auditorium
Thrity Umrigar’s talk, “Bridging the Space Between Us” is a rumination of her nationally best-selling book, The Space Between Us, which was also a #1 BookSense pick and a finalist for the 2007 PEN/Beyond Margins award. The novel has been published in over fifteen countries and has been optioned to be made into a movie. A seasoned speaker, Umrigar inspires and encourages audiences to write and tell their own stories, and lectures on issues of class, gender differences, immigration, cultural differences, and about how to develop and foster community; themes that are also found in her writing.
The City Library, Conference Rooms A/B
T. J. Leyden’s powerful recent memoir is Skinhead Confessions. The theme of his presentation is the compelling story of his life’s journey into the worlds of racial hate – and back again. Through a slideshow, Leyden looks at his past to teach people how hate destroys and hope rebuilds. After leaving the white power movement, Leyden was a featured speaker at the Clinton White House Conference on Hate and has since trained members of the Pentagon, FBI, DOJ, military, law enforcement, educators, and over 850,000 students about racial tolerance.
The City Library, Conference Room C
Rare Book Roadshow. Join antiquarians Ken Sanders and Tony Weller who reprise their popular Rare Book Roadshow. Bring your rare books, antique maps, vintage photographs, documents or paper ephemera to have evaluated – or just to stump the experts!
The City Library, Level 2 Canteena
How to Make a Zine Workshop (3:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.)
Beat Chapbooks. Paine's Common Sense. Luther's Theses. Ten Commandments. All Zines.
Learn how to get your own thoughts down on paper, formatted, and distributed all from the convenience of your table.
Sponsored by the Salt Lake City Public Library Alternative Press.
