2009 Annual Book Fair
Children and Young Adults

Oct. 3 - Children’s activity room—south end of cafeteria

10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Variety of activities for children, including face painting, writing, illustrating books, making lucha libre (wrestling) masks, and more.

 

Oct. 3 - Moved to D121A/B

10:00 a.m. Willie Perdomo, Visiting Langston (level: 4-8 years old)

10:45 a.m. Roberta Labastida, My Ancestors’ Village (8-12)

11:30 a.m. Rick Halsey, Fire and Chaparral (12-adult)

12:15 p.m. Jeff Garcia, Santa Claus and the Molokai Mules: A Hawaiian Surfing Adventure (4-8)

1:00 p.m. Larry Keough, Fragilly and Dirty Dan

1:45 p.m. Janet Gastil, Follow the Sun (12-20 and up)

3:15 p.m. Lowell Lindsay, Fossil Treasures (12-16)

4:00 p.m.  Ying Chang Compestine, A Banquet for Hungry Ghosts (13-17)

 

Oct. 3 - City College Room C211 En español (readings in Spanish)

10:45 a.m. Úrsula Tania, Aspuk, Aspuk, Colorin, Colorado: Espectáculo de cuentos, mitos, y leyendas de las Californias, música por Jesse Vázquez ¨Chaks.¨ (3+)

1:00 p.m. José Lozano, Once Around the Block: Una Vuelta a la Manzana (4-8)

2:30 p.m. P. J. Sáinz, Mica Chueca (12-20+)

 
Sept. 28-Oct. 3, 2009
Perla Batalla

Perla Batalla Photo by Sherry Barnett

Sept. 28 - City College Room D121A/B

12:45-2 p.m. Author Michael Ornelas, The Sons of Guadalupe

7-8 p.m. Author David Lucero, The Sandman


Sept. 29 - City College Room D121A/B

12:45-2:10 p.m. Author Reyna Grande, Dancing with Butterflies


Sept. 30 - City College Room L110

5:30-6:45 p.m. Author Cheryl Klein, Creative Writing Workshop

Sept. 30 - City College Room D121A/B

7-8:30 p.m. Author Cheryl Klein, Lilac Mines


Oct. 1 - City College Room D121A/B

12:45-2:10 p.m. Residency with Perla Batalla

Oct. 1 - World Beat Cultural Center (Click for Directions)

6:30-9 p.m. Director Terrence Stubbs, premiere: Nommogeneity

Reception at 6:30 p.m. Screening at 7 p.m.

 

Oct. 2 - City College Saville Theatre

7-8 p.m. Author Ella deCastro Baron, Itchy Brown Girl Seeks Employment

8-9 p.m. Author Ana Castillo, The Guardians

9 p.m. Concert with Perla Batalla

Oct. 3 - City College Saville Theatre

Full day of authors

10 a.m. Gustavo Arellano, Orange County; ¡Ask a Mexican!

11 a.m. Rodolfo Acuña, lecture, "Chicano Studies: from Activism to Mainstream"

12 noon Lavanderia: A Mixed Load of Women, Wash and Word., edited by Donna J. Watson

Lavanderia readings by Ella deCastro Baron, Chris Baron, Nancy Cary, Olga García Echeverría, Lucia Gbaya-Kanga, Nadia Mandilawi, D. Zenani Mzube, Michelle Sierra

1 p.m. Barry Sanders, The Green Zone: The Environmental Costs of Militarism

2 p.m. William Powers, lecture, "Write to Make Change"

3 p.m. Marilyn Chin, Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen

4 p.m. Laurel Corona, Until Our Last Breath

5 p.m. Willie Perdomo, Where a Nickel Costs a Dime

Oct. 3 - City College Room C211 En español (reading in Spanish)

4 p.m. P. J. Sáinz, Crónicas chúntaras. La música de la plebada

 


Featuring:

Willie Perdomo

Willie Perdomo

Willie Perdomo is the author of Where a Nickel Costs a Dime and Smoking Lovely, which received a PEN America Beyond Margins Award.  He has also been published in The New York Times Magazine and Bomb and his children's book, Visiting Langston, received a Coretta Scott King Honor.

He is an NYFA Arts Fellowship winner, Pushcart Prize nominee, a Urban Artists Initiative/NYC grant recipient and was recently a Woolrich Fellow in Creative Writing at Columbia University. He is currently Artist-in-Residence, Workspace, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.  He is co-founder/publisher of Cypher Books.

Photo courtesy Vona