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Women's & Gender Studies Program
Wake Forest University
Tribble Hall, A106A
P.O. Box 7365
Winston-Salem, NC 27109

Phone: 336-758-3758
Fax: 336-758-4143
wgs@wfu.edu

BOOKMARKS Book Festival

Multiple Speakers, Free to the Public

Saturday, September, 12, 2009

9:30am-5:00pm

Downtown Arts District of Winston-Salem

BOOKMARKS is a non-profit organization and a community-based volunteer organization. It presents the annual BOOKMARKS festival, a day of shared literary experience that engages families and individuals of all ages. There is a rich mixture of authors, books, readings, storytelling, demonstrations, workshops, booksignings, and other activities.

Some suggested events of the day:

10:30am, Golden Flower, 612 N. Trade St.: Jo Maedar, When I Married My Mother: A Daughter's Search for What Really Matters - and How She Found It Caring for Mama

11:00am, Downtown School, City Market, 6th St.: John Hutton, Christmas Maus: Another Small Tale of Sisters House in Salem

12:00pm, Main Stage, 6th & Trade Streets: Carole Boston Weatherford, Becoming Billie Holiday, book reading and jazz ensemble

1:00pm, Downtown School, City Market, 6th St.: Frances O'Roark Dowell, The Kind of Friends We Used To Be

1:30pm, Golden Flower, 612 N. Trade St.: Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton, Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption

For more information and a schedule of the day's events, visit the BOOKMARKS festival website.