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Gallup Authors Festival 2016

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April 8, 2016

7:00pm – 8:00pm Jimmy Santiago Baca

7:00 pm:  Public Reading and discussion

Authors Festival Opening Reception

Early Authors Meet and Greet and Reception

April 9, 2016

10am – 4pm

Schedule of Events

10:00am – 4:00pm Authors available for Meet and Greet

Welcome – Authors’ Hall

Children’s craft activity:  Cultural puppets

10:30am – 11:00am Two Cultures connect through Weaving (Main Library Meeting Room)

Featuring: Sharleen Daugherty with Diné Master weaver Marie Sheppard

11:00am – 11:30am Influence of Many Cultures (Main Library Meeting Room)

Featuring: Mary Neighbour

11:30am – 12pm Cowboy Culture (Main Library Meeting Room)

Featuring: Slim Randles

12:00 pm – 1:00pm Books and Culture Panel Discussion Part 1 (Main Library Meeting Room)

Featuring: Max Early:  Book Reading – Ears of Corn: Listen

Gerald McFarland:  Book Reading - What the Owl Saw

Lonna Enox:  Book Reading – The Last Dance

Books and Culture Panel Discussion Part 1 (Main Library Southwest Room)

Featuring:      Rani Divine: Book Reading - Cedwig: People in the Vines

Deanna Leah:  Book Reading – Unpublished Works

Andy Gibbons:  Book Reading - Lucifer’s Loophole

1pm – 1:30pm Key Note Speaker Address by Anne Hillerman (Main Library Meeting Room)

1:30pm – 2:00pm Dark Reservations (Main Library Meeting Room)

Featuring:  Hillerman Prize winner John Fortunato

Gabe McKenna Mystery Series (Tony Hillerman Award for best work of fiction)

Featuring:  Robert Kidera

1:30pm – 2:15pm Children’s Authors Jamboree at the Children’s Branch

What makes a rainbow?

Children’s Activity featuring:  Ross Van Dusen

2:15 pm – 3:15pm Children’s Authors Jamboree Panel (Children’s Branch)

Featuring: Larry Greenly:  Book Reading - Eugene Bullard: World’s First Black Fight Pilot

Karen Glinski:  Book Reading – Danger at the Rodeo

Sue Houser:  Book Reading – Hot Foot Teddy

Melissa (MJ) Neal: Book Reading – Dreamer

Anita Poleahla

Vee Browne

Essie Yazzie

*Drawing for children’s door prizes (Children’s Branch)

2:00pm – 2:30pm Books 101 including Handouts (Main Library Meeting Room)

Learn all things about books, marketing of books and book production

Featuring: Barbe Awalt, Co-owner of LPD Press/Rio Grande Books

2:00pm – 2:30pm Gallup in Film (Main Library Southwest Room)

Featuring: Jeff Berg

2:30 pm – 3:30pm Books and Culture Panel Discussion Part 2 (Main Library Meeting Room)

Featuring: Jim Kristofic: Diné Culture

John Taylor

Martin Link

Ernie Bulow

Books and Culture Panel Discussion Part 2 (Main Library Southwest Room)

Featuring: Martha Egan

Alford (Andy) Johnson:  Book Reading - Spiritual Passports

Jeffe Kennedy:  Book Reading – Talon of the Hawk

Tanaya Winder:  Book Reading - Keeping the Fire

3:30pm – 4pm Drawing for Door Prizes/Closing Reception – Authors’ Hall (Main Library)

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