Soul of a People
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Time: Noon-1:00 PM
Place: Conference Rooms
Join us for a talk and book signing for David Taylor's Soul of a People.
His book explores the lives and experiences of a handful of people who
were on the Federal Writer's Project in the 1930s and offers a glimpse
of America at a turning point. Drawing on new discoveries from personal
collections, archives, and recent biographies, a new picture has emerged
in the last decade of how the participants' individual dramas
intersected with the larger picture of their subjects. This book
illuminates what it felt like to live that experience, how going from
joblessness to reporting on their own communities affected artists with
varied visions, as well as what feelings such a passage involved: shame,
humiliation, anger, excitement, nostalgia, and adventure. Also revealed
is how the WPA writers anticipated, and perhaps paved the way for, the
political movements of the following decades, including the civil rights
movement, the women's rights movement, and the Native American rights
movement. This event is part of the Virginia Literary Festival.
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MLK Revealed
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Time: 6:00 PM-7:00 PM
Place: Lecture Hall
A discussion on the life of Martin Luther King Jr. with Hampton Sides,
author of Hellhound on His Trail about the assassination of Martin
Luther King Jr. and the largest manhunt in American history, and Nick
Kotz, author of Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King
Jr., and the Laws that Changed America chronicling the roles of
President Johnson and Dr. King in the passage of the 1964, 1965, and
1968 civil rights laws. The discussion will be moderated by Edward L
Ayers, president of the University of Richmond. This event is part of
the Virginia Literary Festival.
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Writers Workshop: Nonfiction
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Time: 8:30 AM-Noon, Fee. Reservations required. Please call
804-692-3900 or click here
<https://co.clickandpledge.com/advanced/default.aspx?wid=37075> to
purchase tickets.
A half-day of insightful guidance and hands-on instruction for writers
of articles, essays, and nonfiction books featuring authors James
Campbell, Dean King, Charles Slack, Jason Tesauro, and Logan Ward, with
special guest Hampton Sides. This event is part of the Virginia Literary
Festival.
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Book Launch and Signing: Secretariat's Meadow
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Time: 6:00 PM-7:00 PM
Place: Lecture Hall
Join us for a talk and signing by co-authors Kate Chenery Tweedy and
Leanne Meadows Ladin as they give us the complete story of Secretariat's
birthplace and the Chenery family who raised and raced him.
Secretariat's Meadow: The Land, The Family, The Legend reveals an
intimate picture of Meadow Farm from the viewpoint of Kate Chenery
Tweedy, daughter of Penny Chenery (Tweedy) and granddaughter of Meadow
Stable's founder Christopher T. Chenery. The book tells not only
Secretariat's story, but the story of an enduring piece of land where an
empire built on broodmares eventually produced the legendary winner of
the Triple Crown. The event is sponsored by Robertson and Martin
Financial Consulting Group of Wells Fargo Advisors, LLC. This event is
part of the Virginia Literary Festival.
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From the Heart
Friday, October 15, 2010
Time: 11:30 AM-1:30 PM
Place: Jepson Alumni Center, University of Richmond, 101 College Drive,
Fee. Reservations required. Please call 804-692-3900 or click here
<https://co.clickandpledge.com/advanced/default.aspx?wid=37075> to
purchase tickets.
A live literary discussion and seated luncheon with best-selling authors
Adriana Trigiani, Jeannette Walls and Josh Weil.
Three of Virginia's most beloved and highly acclaimed fiction writers
discuss their works. Author of the Big Stone Gap trilogy, Trigani wows
audiences with her humor. Walls does it with her poignant stories. Weil,
whose dark Appalachian tales have brought him critical kudos, is the new
voice on the block.
Journalist Lisa LaFata Powell will moderate the discussion, which
promises to be not only lively but heartfelt.
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Virginia Arts & Letters Live
Friday, October 15, 2010
Time: 7:00 PM-9:00 PM
Place: Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen, FEE. For more information,
contact CACGA at 804-261-ARTS (2787), or James River Writers at
804-433-3790.
Virginia actors read short stories by Virginia writers, accompanied by
Virginia musicians.
Pat Carroll is the guest host and this year's production is directed by
Irene Ziegler. This event is co-produced by James River Writers and the
Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen in association with the READ Center.
This event is part of the Virginia Literary Festival.
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Closed
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Closed all day for Literary Awards event
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Unite or Die!: How Thirteen States Became a Nation
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Time: 2:00 PM-3:00 PM
Place: Main Branch, Richmond Public Library, 101 East Franklin Street,
804-646-4550
Cardozo Award-winning author Jacqueline Jules, author of Unite or Die!:
How Thirteen States Became a Nation will read and discuss her book that
delightfully depicts how the constitution was created. This is a perfect
program for elementary school children. This event is part of the
Virginia Literary Festival.
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13th Annual Library of Virginia Literary Awards Celebration
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Time: 7:00 PM
Place: Lobby, FEE. Reservations required. Please call 804-692-3900 or
click here
<https://co.clickandpledge.com/advanced/default.aspx?wid=37075> to
purchase tickets.
Best-selling author Adriana Trigiani will host this year's fabulous
literary event featuring the best writing about Virginia or by Virginia
authors. Awards will be given for best works of fiction, nonfiction,
poetry, and literary lifetime achievement. Other awards include the
Carole Weinstein Poetry Prize, the People's Choice Awards, and the
Whitney and Scott Cardozo Award for Children's Literature.
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Sitting In and Speaking Out: Student Movements in the American South,
1960-1970
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Time: 7:00 PM
Place: Bacot Reception Room, St. Catherine's School, 6001 Grove Avenue,
804-288-2804
Jeffrey Turner will discuss Sitting In and Speaking Out, his book
examining student movements in the South. Examining the activism of both
black and white students, he shows that the South responded to national
developments but that the response had its own trajectory. Based on
primary research at more than 20 public and private institutions in the
deep and upper South, including historically black schools, Sitting In
and Speaking Out is a wide-ranging and sensitive portrait of southern
students navigating a remarkably dynamic era. Turner holds the Abby
Castle Kemper Master Teaching Chair in History at St. Catherine's
School. The talk is presented by St. Catherine's School and the Library
of Virginia. Books are available for sale at the event, or in advance at
the Virginia Shop at the Library of Virginia: www.thevirginiashop.org
<http://www.thevirginiashop.org/> or call 804-692-3976.
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The Library of Virginia is located in historic downtown Richmond at 800
East Broad Street. There is free parking for this event in the Library's
underground garage, which is accessible from either Eighth or Ninth
streets. For more information, please call 804-692-3592.
For more on other upcoming events at the Library of Virginia, visit
http://www.lva.virginia.gov/news/index.htm.
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Tameka B. Hobbs
Program & Education Manager
Education and Outreach Division
The Library of Virginia
800 East Broad Street
Richmond, Virginia 23219-8000
804.371.2126 - office
804.692.3814 - fax
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