Join us for Easthampton’s 3rd Annual Book Fest!
Saturday April 8, 9am-9pm
KIDS BOOK FEST at EASTHAMPTON HIGH SCHOOL
Address – 70 Williston Avenue in Easthampton
9:30am-11am / Childrens Book Fair with readings by Angela DiTerlizzi (Some Pets) & Tony DiTerlizzi (WondLa & Spiderwick Chronicles)
11am-1pm / More children’s fun and book-related activities
OLD TOWN HALL
Address – 43 Main Street in Easthampton
11am-8pm / ZineFest at Flywheel
11am-8pm / Elusie Monotypes & Artist Books at Big Red Frame featuring Doris Madsen
11am-8pm / LEX | SCENES at ECA Gallery, featuring collaborative artworks by Scout Cuomo, Maria Jose Gimenez, Maggie Nowinski, and Katie Richardson
EMILY WILLISTON MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Address – 9 Park Street in Easthampton
1pm-3pm / Postcards to Easthampton
1:30pm / Typewriter Repair Demonstration
COTTAGE STREET CULTURAL DISTRICT
10am-4pm @ Big Wheel Press at Cottage Street Studios, 1 Cottage Street
Letterpress poetry & bookbiding workshops (pre-registration required) and tours
1pm-2:15pm @ White Square Books, 86 Cottage Street
Fiction As Change Agent – Reading and discussion with Ellen Meeropol (Kinship of Clover)
2:30-3:45pm @ White Square Books, 86 Cottage Street
Us & Them – A writer/translator series
3pm @ Luthier’s Co-Op, 108 Cottage Street
Music Festivals Past & Present: A conversation with Jim Olsen & Jonathan Wynn, moderated by Steve Waksman (Instruments of Desire: The Electric Guitar and the Shaping of Musical Experience).
4pm-5:30pm @ White Square Books, 86 Cottage Street
Afternoon Poetry with Gail Thomas (Odd Mercy) and Richard Michelson (More Money Than God)
MILL DISTRICT
12pm-5pm @ Eastworks, 116 Pleasant Street
Lit Marketplace featuring authors, poets, essayists, comic book makers, illustrators, and crafters
12pm-8pm @ MAP Gallery at Eastworks, 116 Pleasant Street
d’VISION: Artist Books by John Landino, Erika Knerr, Jack Nelson & Eric Garb
12pm @ Eastworks, 116 Pleasant Street
Letterpress History Workshop with Gary Metras
1pm @ Eastworks, 116 Pleasant Street
Self-Publishing How & Why with Easther S White & Trevor Powers
3pm @ Eastworks, 116 Pleasant Street
Story Slam for Adults with Gail Herman
5pm @ Eastworks, 116 Pleasant Street
Ten Minute Plays
7pm-9pm @ Abandoned Building Brewery, 142 Pleasant Street
Poems & Pints