When:
September
28-30, 2012
Fri & Sat: noon-8pm
Sun: noon-7pm
Where:
Mt. Vernon Place,
centered on 600
North Charles St,
Baltimore MD 21201
Teaching useful skills to everyone.
The Baltimore Free School presents interactive programming and workshops. Come learn how to write a poem, bind a book or get your work published and much more!
Take a look below at the 2011 schedule. This year's lineup is coming soon!
Stage: South Park
1PM
Julia A. Whitehead, Executive Director of the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library, discusses Vonnegut's writing and his continuing relevance in today's literary landscape.
Event Details5PM-8PM
Storytellers, Baltimore's only open mic spot that focuses on the importance of reading, is celebrating its 3 year anniversary at the Baltimore Book Festival! Storytellers started in 2008 with a purpose of promoting the power of books and "Paying it Forward." Get a taste for this monthly event with poetic duo The Terrorpens, musicians t3N and Janice B. and poets Droopy the Broke Baller and HanaLyn. The evening begins with an Open Mic at 5pm!
Event Details12PM
Maria Murnane and Kyra E. Hicks, fiction and non-fiction authors, will save you time, money and frustration by explaining the differences between traditional and self-publishing. You’ll come away with a step-by-step guide for each based on their experiences with both processes. Maria and Kyra will also cover the pros and cons of each route to help you weigh them against your goals as an author.
Event Details2PM
An introduction to lettering and typography with Bruce Willen of Post Typography, one of Baltimore's most prominent graphic design firms, and the daytime alter-ego of beloved Baltimore band Double Dagger.
Event Details3PM
A hands-on workshop with students from MICA's Book Arts program. Learn the fine art of Japanese stab binding and create your own blank book, or bring along your own project to bind!
Event Details4PM
Former CityPaper Arts Editor Bret McCabe moderates an interactive panel of local critics and journalists discussing what it’s like to critique, report, and otherwise wrestle with writing about the arts, culture, and current events in this era everybody’s a critic, dogmatic shouting and anonymous commenting counts as debate, and consuming media means often means separating the substantive wheat from the shrill noise chaff.
Event Details5:30PM- 8PM
The regular Lit & Art reading series brings fiction, poetry, non-fiction, live music, original art, and refreshments to the Mid Atlantic's largest celebration of the literary arts. You're invited to participate by sharing your own original work. Hosted by Tracks author Eric D. Goodman, author Nitin Jagdish, and artist Manzar
Event Details12PM
Our television-infused culture has cut a lot of young folks off from the world of books, but, as adults, if we are easily frustrated by reading, we have a harder time accomplishing all we want to accomplish. This workshop—facilitated by Baltimore City public school teachers—is aimed at parents and teachers of children and teens, and discusses current research and techniques for encouraging reading in the home and in the classroom, as well as strategies for assisting struggling readers, and an open discussion of books appropriate for encouraging readers of all ages.
Event Details1PM
Art activist Becky Slogeris presents the "Baltimore Textbook," a new book that teaches middle school readers how to read their city.
Event Details3PM
Facilitated by former and current members of the Baltimore Urban Debate League, and coordinated by Towson-based radical policy activist group Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle, this two-hour session gives everyone the opportunity to learn the fine art of constructing (and winning) an argument.
Event Details5PM
The Book Doctors, aka Arielle Eckstut and David Henry Sterry, authors of The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published, are hosting a Pitchapalooza at BBF! Pitchapalooza is like American Idol for books -- writers get one minute to pitch their book ideas to an all-star panel of publishing experts. The winner receives an introduction to an appropriate agent or publisher for his/her book! Participants must register in advance at the Baltimore Free School Lit+Language Tent.
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