2014 Literary Arts Fest
1st Annual Telluride Literary Arts Festival
May 15-18, 2014
SCHEDULE*
[scroll down for full event descriptions]
THURSDAY, MAY 15
9pm
Poetry Brothel [1] at the Steaming Bean. map it.
Free
FRIDAY, MAY 16
4-5pm
Tour of the American Academy of Bookbinding studios [2]
117 North Willow, Stone Building. map it
Free
8pm
Take It All Off: An Evening of Literary Burlesque [3]
with authors and poets Craig Childs, Amy McHarg,
Sara Gilman, Kierstin Bridger, and Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer.
Ah Haa School, 300 S. Townsend. map it
$5 at door
SATURDAY, MAY 17
9am-12pm
Raising the Dead: A Walking Celebration of Landscapes and Literature with Craig Childs & Amy Irvine McHarg [4]
Meet at Between the Covers Bookstore map it.
Coffee and pastries available starting at 8:30am
End at La Cocina de Luz (optional lunch with authors)
$50
11am
Make Your Own Book Party for Kids [5]
Between the Covers Bookstore
Free, but the adorable hardcover blank books are $5 each
2-4pm
Talking Gourds Poetry Sharing Circle [6]
with Art Goodtimes
Arroyo Wine Bar. map it.
Free
4-6pm
Jack's Guild: A Dialogue on Craft [7]
with Jack Mueller, Danny Rosen, Wendy Videlock, Kyle Harvey
Arroyo Wine Bar
Free
6-7:30pm
Mark Fischer Poetry Prize Awards Ceremony [8]
presented by Commissioner Elaine Fischer
Arroyo Wine Bar
Free
9pm
Book Lovers Bash with DJ Soul Atomic [9]
Fly Me to the Moon Saloon. map it.
Dress as your favorite (or most despised) author or literary character. Prizes for best costume!
Free!
SUNDAY, MAY 18
9am
Sunday, May 18, Second Cup Sneak Peek with author Craig Childs [10]
High Alpine Coffee Bar at Between the Covers Bookstore. map it.
10am-12pm
Author Brunch with Pam Houston [11]
Wilkinson Public Library. map it.
Free
Noon
Closing (the book) Ceremony [12]
Wilkinson Public Library. map it.
Free
*Schedule subject to change.
SCHEDULE*
[scroll down for full event descriptions]
THURSDAY, MAY 15
9pm
Poetry Brothel [1] at the Steaming Bean. map it.
Free
FRIDAY, MAY 16
4-5pm
Tour of the American Academy of Bookbinding studios [2]
117 North Willow, Stone Building. map it
Free
8pm
Take It All Off: An Evening of Literary Burlesque [3]
with authors and poets Craig Childs, Amy McHarg,
Sara Gilman, Kierstin Bridger, and Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer.
Ah Haa School, 300 S. Townsend. map it
$5 at door
SATURDAY, MAY 17
9am-12pm
Raising the Dead: A Walking Celebration of Landscapes and Literature with Craig Childs & Amy Irvine McHarg [4]
Meet at Between the Covers Bookstore map it.
Coffee and pastries available starting at 8:30am
End at La Cocina de Luz (optional lunch with authors)
$50
11am
Make Your Own Book Party for Kids [5]
Between the Covers Bookstore
Free, but the adorable hardcover blank books are $5 each
2-4pm
Talking Gourds Poetry Sharing Circle [6]
with Art Goodtimes
Arroyo Wine Bar. map it.
Free
4-6pm
Jack's Guild: A Dialogue on Craft [7]
with Jack Mueller, Danny Rosen, Wendy Videlock, Kyle Harvey
Arroyo Wine Bar
Free
6-7:30pm
Mark Fischer Poetry Prize Awards Ceremony [8]
presented by Commissioner Elaine Fischer
Arroyo Wine Bar
Free
9pm
Book Lovers Bash with DJ Soul Atomic [9]
Fly Me to the Moon Saloon. map it.
Dress as your favorite (or most despised) author or literary character. Prizes for best costume!
Free!
SUNDAY, MAY 18
9am
Sunday, May 18, Second Cup Sneak Peek with author Craig Childs [10]
High Alpine Coffee Bar at Between the Covers Bookstore. map it.
10am-12pm
Author Brunch with Pam Houston [11]
Wilkinson Public Library. map it.
Free
Noon
Closing (the book) Ceremony [12]
Wilkinson Public Library. map it.
Free
*Schedule subject to change.
1. POETRY BROTHEL
A vaudeville-style show featuring song, dance, spontaneous theatrical performance and poetry. The “brothel” venue is meant to be a place of uninhibited creative expression in which poets and patrons can be themselves in an intimate setting. [ DAN: apparently not free anymore: Admission is $5, cash bar. ]
2. TOUR OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF BOOKBINDING STUDIOS
Tour the studios of a longstanding program of the Ah Haa School for the Arts. This spring’s AAB students have been studying Fine Leather Binding with Monique Lallier. A place where the book itself is the star.
3. LITERARY BURLESQUE
An evening of “baring it all” with five regional women writers and author Craig Childs as emcee featuring Amy Irvine McHarg, Kierstin Bridger, Sarah Gilman, Ellen Marie Metrick and Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer performing intensely vulnerable and revealing poetry – a removing of layers through words, costumes and projected imagery – that asks what it means to be female while simultaneously busting cultural and societal projections. The performance will last roughly one hour.
4. RAISING THE DEAD
"This festival is about reveling in the sheer pleasure that books bring to our lives, and so Craig and I wanted to offer an opportunity to just wallow in words, particularly the gorgeous, powerful narratives that have shaped who we are as writers of the West, of the natural world,” says McHarg. “In that spirit, we will wander the box canyon wilds, as well as the graveyard and other historic haunts, where we'll summon (perhaps channel!) the great literati of nature writing: Think Ed Abbey, Ellen Meloy, Pablo Neruda ... ” Organized by the Ah Haa School (register at www.ahhaa.org)
5. MAKE YOUR OWN BOOK PARTY FOR KIDS
Little blank hardcover books and plentiful art supplies await each child. For $5 per book, children can write, illustrate, and sign their own literary creations. When complete, kids can decide if they’d like to share their books with fellow junior authors. This story-time bonanza coincides with National Children’s Book Week!
6. TALKING GOURDS POETRY SHARING CIRCLE
Led by Art Goodtimes and featuring regional poets Danny Rosen and Wendy Videlock.
7. JACK'S GUILD
Featuring a dialogue on craft by this North Beach legend and the reigning poet on the Western Slope, according to Goodtimes. “He’s very much off the wall,” and he likes to heckle, Goodtimes notes. “Heckling without nastiness… He’ll ask you a hard question, then plays you nice and strokes your ego.”
8. MARK FISCHER POETRY PRIZE
Last year’s winner (and this year’s judge) Kyle Harvey will be present, along with winners and, hopefully, Elaine Fischer. The prize is named in the memory of Mark Fischer, Telluride’s much-loved poet, lawyer, skier and raconteur. The evening will include readings of some of this year’s winning pieces. Check out the facebook feed: https://www.facebook.com/events/519388018166902/
9. BOOK LOVERS BASH
Imagine three Hemingways boxing on the dance floor, or Edgar Allan Poe playing pool with Max from “Where the Wild Things Are.” Attendees at this underground ball for bibliophiles are requested to come dressed as their favorite (or most despised) author or literary character. (Note: The Freebox is ripe for costume pickin’.) LitFest’s guest judge is Pam Houston, bestselling author of Cowboys Are My Weakness (also the featured author at Sunday’s Author Brunch).
10. SNEAK PEEK
Childs has published more than a dozen critically acclaimed books (Secret Knowledge of Water, House of Rain, Finders Keepers, Apocalyptic Planet) and is a commentator for National Public Radio's Morning Edition. He writes about the relationship between humans, animals, landscape, and time.
11. SUNDAY BRUNCH
Houston divides her time between her ranch in Colorado and the University of California at Davis, where she is director of the Creative Writing Program. She has been a frequent contributor to O Magazine, and her writing appears regularly in More and other publications. She authored best-selling novels Cowboys Are My Weakness and Contents May Have Shifted, and – an interesting Telluride note – she also wrote the foreword to the much-beloved Tomboy Bride, by Harriet Fish Backus, a perennial bestseller at Between the Covers. Aside from reading some of her own work, Houston will honor LitFest’s mandate to celebrate the reader by revealing her own short list of must-read books. "Houston claims for women the terrain staked out by male writers from Hemingway to Richard Ford." - Los Angeles Times For more about Pam: http://pamhouston.wordpress.com/about/
12. CLOSING CEREMONY
A vaudeville-style show featuring song, dance, spontaneous theatrical performance and poetry. The “brothel” venue is meant to be a place of uninhibited creative expression in which poets and patrons can be themselves in an intimate setting. [ DAN: apparently not free anymore: Admission is $5, cash bar. ]
2. TOUR OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF BOOKBINDING STUDIOS
Tour the studios of a longstanding program of the Ah Haa School for the Arts. This spring’s AAB students have been studying Fine Leather Binding with Monique Lallier. A place where the book itself is the star.
3. LITERARY BURLESQUE
An evening of “baring it all” with five regional women writers and author Craig Childs as emcee featuring Amy Irvine McHarg, Kierstin Bridger, Sarah Gilman, Ellen Marie Metrick and Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer performing intensely vulnerable and revealing poetry – a removing of layers through words, costumes and projected imagery – that asks what it means to be female while simultaneously busting cultural and societal projections. The performance will last roughly one hour.
4. RAISING THE DEAD
"This festival is about reveling in the sheer pleasure that books bring to our lives, and so Craig and I wanted to offer an opportunity to just wallow in words, particularly the gorgeous, powerful narratives that have shaped who we are as writers of the West, of the natural world,” says McHarg. “In that spirit, we will wander the box canyon wilds, as well as the graveyard and other historic haunts, where we'll summon (perhaps channel!) the great literati of nature writing: Think Ed Abbey, Ellen Meloy, Pablo Neruda ... ” Organized by the Ah Haa School (register at www.ahhaa.org)
5. MAKE YOUR OWN BOOK PARTY FOR KIDS
Little blank hardcover books and plentiful art supplies await each child. For $5 per book, children can write, illustrate, and sign their own literary creations. When complete, kids can decide if they’d like to share their books with fellow junior authors. This story-time bonanza coincides with National Children’s Book Week!
6. TALKING GOURDS POETRY SHARING CIRCLE
Led by Art Goodtimes and featuring regional poets Danny Rosen and Wendy Videlock.
7. JACK'S GUILD
Featuring a dialogue on craft by this North Beach legend and the reigning poet on the Western Slope, according to Goodtimes. “He’s very much off the wall,” and he likes to heckle, Goodtimes notes. “Heckling without nastiness… He’ll ask you a hard question, then plays you nice and strokes your ego.”
8. MARK FISCHER POETRY PRIZE
Last year’s winner (and this year’s judge) Kyle Harvey will be present, along with winners and, hopefully, Elaine Fischer. The prize is named in the memory of Mark Fischer, Telluride’s much-loved poet, lawyer, skier and raconteur. The evening will include readings of some of this year’s winning pieces. Check out the facebook feed: https://www.facebook.com/events/519388018166902/
9. BOOK LOVERS BASH
Imagine three Hemingways boxing on the dance floor, or Edgar Allan Poe playing pool with Max from “Where the Wild Things Are.” Attendees at this underground ball for bibliophiles are requested to come dressed as their favorite (or most despised) author or literary character. (Note: The Freebox is ripe for costume pickin’.) LitFest’s guest judge is Pam Houston, bestselling author of Cowboys Are My Weakness (also the featured author at Sunday’s Author Brunch).
10. SNEAK PEEK
Childs has published more than a dozen critically acclaimed books (Secret Knowledge of Water, House of Rain, Finders Keepers, Apocalyptic Planet) and is a commentator for National Public Radio's Morning Edition. He writes about the relationship between humans, animals, landscape, and time.
11. SUNDAY BRUNCH
Houston divides her time between her ranch in Colorado and the University of California at Davis, where she is director of the Creative Writing Program. She has been a frequent contributor to O Magazine, and her writing appears regularly in More and other publications. She authored best-selling novels Cowboys Are My Weakness and Contents May Have Shifted, and – an interesting Telluride note – she also wrote the foreword to the much-beloved Tomboy Bride, by Harriet Fish Backus, a perennial bestseller at Between the Covers. Aside from reading some of her own work, Houston will honor LitFest’s mandate to celebrate the reader by revealing her own short list of must-read books. "Houston claims for women the terrain staked out by male writers from Hemingway to Richard Ford." - Los Angeles Times For more about Pam: http://pamhouston.wordpress.com/about/
12. CLOSING CEREMONY