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	Fairs
	Featured Workshops
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	Pre-festival Events
	Special Programs

Calendar developed and supported by Kieran O’Shea

Schedule of Events

Wednesday, November 4

“The Art of Presentation”

7:00 pm
Reception at 6:00 pm

Fifth Street School Auditorium

Aaron Betsky, Signature Presenter, architect, critic, author, curator of the Architecture Exhibition at the 2008 Venice Biennale and Director of the Cincinnati Art Museum

We have just seen the end of the boom in the building of museums and we are in a period in which the definition of art is undergoing radical change and computer technology allows us to produce anything we can imagine. There is no original for the digital artifact, and the question of what is reality looms large. What, now, is the framework for art? Is a museum still a treasure vault or is it a community center? What is the difference between a museum, a gallery, and a shopping mall? What is the art and what is the architecture in museum buildings? These questions and many more will be raised through a survey of the nature of architectural presentations of art and artful presentations of architecture in the last decade.

Co-presented by the KLAI JUBA Lecture Series, the UNLV School of Architecture Downtown Design Center, Las Vegas Chapter of the American Institute of Architects and the City of Las Vegas.

Thursday, November 5

Opening Keynote Address

7:00 pm

Fifth Street School Auditorium

Kay Ryan, the Poet Laureate of the United States, presents the opening festival keynote. Ryan, known for her compact short poems that revel in wordplay and internal rhymes, is making her first appearance in Las Vegas. Co-sponsored by the City of Las Vegas Office of Cultural Affairs, Black Mountain Institute and Nevada Humanities.

6:00 pm Keynote Reception
6:45 pm Nevada School of the Arts Eldala Trio performing Saint-Saens’ Piano Trio No. 1 with Laraine Kaizer-Viazovstsev, Elena Kapustina, Damaris Alvarez

Friday, November 6

“The Sin City Sonneteer Spectacle”

6:00 – 10:00 pm

First Friday in 18b The Arts District, Casino Center and Charleston

Join Mayor Oscar Goodman and local poet Dayvid Figler in opening the book festival’s poetry night hosted by First Friday in 18b the Arts District; on the main stage at Casino Center and Colorado Street.

Climb on board the Tanka Trolley with hosts Claudia Keelan and Jarret Keene as they lead an eclectic cadre of bards, spoken-word artists and performance poets, including Donald Revell and Elizabeth Quiñones, into the neon heart of First Friday and 18b The Downtown Arts District. “The Sin City Sonneteer Spectacle” will be a literary pageant — on wheels - with stops at select art galleries and bars downtown. Listen to and observe the finest word warriors in Vegas as they share their celebrated verse with the masses.

6:00 Kickoff with Mayor Oscar Goodman & Dayvid Figler BOOK FESTIVAL STAGE
6:30 Jarret Keene CLARK COUNTY GOVERNMENT CENTER (500 S. Grand Central Pkwy.)
7:00 Donald Revell ATOMIC TODD GALLERY(1221 Main St.)
7:30 Claudia Keelan THE FALLOUT GALLERY(1551 S. Commerce St.)
8:00 Elizabeth Quiñones CAXCULTHI GALLERY (1406 S. 3^rd St.)
8:30 Keith Brantley CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER (101 E. Charleston Blvd.)
9:00 Jeff Grindley TIFFANY’S (1700 Las Vegas Blvd. S.) 9:30 Josh Kryah DINO’S (1516 Las Vegas Blvd. S.)

Saturday, November 7

Author Sessions and Readings

A book signing will follow each session – in the gallery of the Fifth Street School.

10:00 am
Four Paths to Children’s Publishing

Opening session celebrating the Target Children’s Book Festival . Every children’s book author or illustrator finds a different path to publication. Ellen Hopkins leads a discussion about the journeys of fellow Nevada authors Daria Snadowsky and Kristin Venuti, and illustrator Sharleen Collicott.

11:15 am
“Readers Choice” — Las Vegas Book Clubs Select

Local book clubs recommended their favorite authors and three were selected to participate in this panel discussion:

Indu Sundaresan
Splendor of Silence, an author from Washington State whose historical fiction is set in her native India. Recommended by The Bookies book club.

Margaret Coel
The Spirit Woman, New York Times best-selling author of the Wind River mystery series set among the Arapahos in Colorado. Recommended by The Book Nook at LVRJ.com.

Vicki Pettersson
City of Souls: The Fourth Sign of the Zodiac, urban fantasy author whose Zodiac series is set in modern Las Vegas. Recommended by the City of Las Vegas Book Club.

11:30 am

Featured Workshop

Recital Hall of the Nevada School of the Arts, Historic Fifth Street School

So You Think You Want to Write (or Illustrate) For Children.

Ever thought about writing or illustrating for children? There’s more to it than you might think. Join NY Times Bestselling young adult author Ellen Hopkins to learn about the hungry children’s market; coordinated through Ann Kimbrough.

12:30 pm
“Sudden Orpheus”

An experimental theater piece with poetry and puppets presented as a collaboration between puppeteer Ariel Goldberger and poet Leonard Schwartz with themes that are drawn from the Orpheus myth, the sculptures of Giacommetti and Schwartz’s poem, “The Sudden.”

1:00 pm

Featured Workshop

Recital Hall of the Nevada School of the Arts, Fifth Street School

“Beyond Twilight and True Blood”

Fantasy is the hottest-selling market right now, as readers devour worlds full of vampires, werewolves and all things that go bump. Best-selling urban fantasy novelist Vicki Pettersson explains how to use magic and monsters to create the escapist fiction that readers are gobbling up.

1:45 pm
Poetry in the Frank Wright Fountain Courtyard

Readings by local poets in the Fountain Courtyard of the Fifth Street School. Coordinated by Claudia Keelan and Donald Revell.

“City of Second Chances”

People from all walks of life tell amazing stories about getting new starts in Las Vegas. Join John L. Smith (columnist for the Las Vegas Review-Journal and author of On the Boulevard), Douglas Unger (author of Leaving the Land and Looking for War), and Cheryll Glotfelty (editor of Literary Nevada: Writings from the Silver State) as they read stories about people who reinvented themselves in Las Vegas. Perhaps you have your own story to tell?

3:00 pm

“Working with Literary Journals”

Richard Logsdon, Tina Eliopulos, H. Lee Barnes and Todd Moffitt, founders of Red Rock Review, present a panel discussion directed at those who want to submit their works for publication to magazines like Red Rock Review. Accordingly, the panel will address a number of concerns: What do I say in my cover letter? What are the editors looking for? What do I do if my work is rejected? Panelists will read selections of their own works.

4:00 pm
“Las Vegas Writes” presents the final chapter of Restless City, a serial novel.

Vu Tran will read the seventh and final chapter of the collaborative serial e-novel. Contributing authors include Lee Barnes, John Irsfeld, Brian Rouff, Leah Bailly, John L. Smith, Constance Ford, and Vu Tran. Session facilitated by Geoff Schumacher.

“Amelia’s Long Journey: The Challenge of Writing What You Know”

7:00 pm
John L. Smith, Signature Presenter

Sunday, November 8

Author Sessions & Readings

Fifth Street School

10:00 am
“Education in the Neon Shadow”

Jami Carpenter, editor and educator, leads a discussion with panelists Kay Carl, Julie Newberry and Rick Watson on the history of the Clark County School District — in celebration of its 50^th anniversary. The panelists will share memories of a school system in continual growth and change and the unique challenges that have confronted one of the largest school districts in America, contemplating, too, the future of education in the “neon shadow.”

11:15 pm
“Great Characters from Las Vegas History”

Geoff Schumacher, journalist and author, Michael Green, historian, Myram Borders, journalist and Jack Sheehan, author and humorist. From Bugsy Siegel and Benny Binion to Howard Hughes and Steve Wynn, eccentric and visionary characters populate Las Vegas history — and this panel of local experts will break down who among them was truly important and who was just colorful.