2007 Nebraska Book Festival
October 26-28, 16th Annual
Downtown Lincoln
Article from The NCB News, Vol. 17, No. 2, Fall 2007
The 2007 Nebraska Book Festival, scheduled for October 26-28 in
downtown Lincoln, will be staged in locations on Centennial Mall. On
Friday, October 26, Native American scholar and author Joseph Marshall
III will open the festival with an address focusing on the great Sioux
warrior and tactician, Crazy Horse (the subject of Nebraska author Mari
Sandoz’ biography, Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas—the One
Book One Nebraska selection for 2007). The Lincoln Children’s Museum
will provide an exciting and colorful setting for the Children’s program
on Saturday, October 27. Parents and children will participate in events
featuring storytellers and hands-on activities.
Panel discussions, special presentations, and other features of the
adult program will be hosted by the UN-L College of Journalism and Mass
Communications, located in Andersen Hall (directly east across the Mall
from the Children’s Museum). The Nebraska History Museum (south across P
Street from the Children’s Museum) will serve as another venue for the
adult programs, with readings, presentations, book and gift shop, and
Nebraska history displays. On Saturday, October 27, the Nebraska Center
for the Book will announce the winners of the annual Nebraska Book
Awards in a ceremony at 11:00 a.m., to be followed by the annual Book
Festival luncheon with readings by 2007 Nebraska Book Award winners. On
Sunday, October 28, the Jane Geske Award (for exceptional
organizational contribution to literacy, books, reading, libraries,
bookselling, and writing in Nebraska) will be presented at the Nebraska
Center for the Book Annual Meeting.
The Nebraska Book Festival is sponsored by the Nebraska Arts Council,
Nebraska Center for the Book, Nebraska Humanities Council, Nebraska
Library Commission, and University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Schedule
Friday, October 26
5:30-6:30
- Welcome: The Honorable John Gale, Nebraska Secretary of State
- Introduction: Lynn Roper, President, Mari Sandoz Heritage Societ
- Keynote Address: Joseph Marshall III
- Sponsored by the Office of Nebraska Secretary of State John Gale
- Nebraska State Capitol
6:30-7:30
- Reception, Lincoln Woman’s Club
8:00-9:30
- Feature Film: Coup de Torchon; Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts
Center; Based on Jim Thompson’s novel Pop. 1280; Introduction by
Richard Graham; Comments by Robert Polito
9:30
- Night Owl Poetry Slam; Java Zone, Star City Slam team and others
Saturday, October 27
Children’s Program
Outside the Lines: Creative Storytelling Activities for Children;
Lincoln Children’s Museum
11:00- 12:00
- Kimberly Brown: A Visit from the Real D.W. (for ages 6 and up)
12:00-12:45
- The String Beans (music for all ages)
1:00-2:00
- Kimberly Brown: A Visit from the Real D.W. (for ages 6 and up)
2:15-3:15
- Leta Powell Drake: From Page to Stage (for ages 6 and up)
3:30-4:30
- Dorothy Rieke: Ghost, Goblins and Ghouls! (for ages 8 and up)
Adult Program
8:30-9:20
- How to Read a Quilt; Museum of Nebraska History; Lincoln
Quilters Guild; Moderator: Margrethe Ahlschwede. Sandy Anderson,
Lois Wilson, Phyllis Higley, Sheila Green, Tanna Kinnaman
9:00-6:00
- Nebraska Non-Stop Poetry Readings; Andersen Hall
9:30-10:30
- Wee Brazen Hussies - In the large tent on Centennial Mall
9:30-10:40
- On Writing Biography; Moderator: John Wunder. Joe Starita, Tim
Anderson, Joseph Marshall III
- Getting into Print; Moderator: Don Cunningham, ed.
- Nebraska
History Magazine; Sue Driscoll, CEO, iUniverse; Greg Kosmicki, Backwaters
Press
11:00-12:00
- Nebraska Book Awards, Nebraska State Capitol Rotunda
- Master of Ceremonies: Rod Wagner
- “Prayers for the People: Carl Sandburg’s Poetry and Songs”
- Kathryn Benzel, Charles Peek, Mike Adams
- Nebraska Center for the Book Awards
- Sponsored by the Office of Nebraska Secretary of State John
Gale
12:30-1:45
- Nebraska Book Festival Luncheon
- Readings by Nebraska Book Award Winners
2:00-3:15
- Nebraska Non-Stop Prose Readings
- Sweet Savagery: Mystery and Crime Fiction; Moderator: Sean
Doolittle with Rick Cypert on Mignon Eberhart and Robert Polito on Jim
Thompson
2:00-3:30
- Wee Brazen Hussies - In the large tent on Centennial Mall
2:00-5:00
- Readings from Nebraska Presence; Bennett Martin Public Library
3:30-4:45
- Nebraska Nonfiction: Contributors to The Big Empty Talk About
Writing and Place; Moderator: Ladette Randolph. Bill Kloefkorn, Mary
Pipher, John Janovy, John Price, Bryan Jones, Lisa Knopp
- Writing the Cornhusker State in Letters & Numbers; Rajean Luebs
Shepherd
5:00-6:15
- From Paleontology to Philosophy: The Loren Eiseley Centennial;
Moderator: Bing Chen. Mary Liz Jameson, Garry Alkire
- From Camera to Book; Moderator: Francis Moul; Michael Forsberg,
Mike Farrell
6:15-7:30
8:00-9:30
- Reception, Great Plains Art Museum
- Guest of Honor: William Kloefkorn, Nebraska State Poet
- Writers’ Tributes to William Kloefkorn
9:30-
- Night Owl Open Mic, The Coffee House
Sunday, October 28
9:00-10:30
- One for the Road Brunch (no host), Cornhusker Hotel
10:30-noon
- Annual NCB Members Meeting, Cornhusker Hotel
Concurrent Events
12:00-12:45
- Nebraska Archives Week Seminar, Museum of Nebraska History
- Lincoln Quilters Guild Exhibit, Museum of Nebraska History
- Book Exhibits, Tent on the Mall
- Book Signings, Downtown Coffee Houses
- Poetry and Prose Readings, Andersen Hall; Bennett Martin
- Tours of Nebraska State Capitol, Nebraska State Capitol
Sponsors
Nebraska Humanities Council, Nebraska Center for the Book, Nebraska
Library Commission
Partners
Nebraska Arts Council, Nebraska Cultural Endowment, “We the People”
initiative of the National Endowment for the Humanities, University of
Nebraska College of Journalism and Mass Communications, Lincoln
Children’s Museum, Nebraska State Historical Society, Nebraska State
Historical Society Museum of Nebraska History, Mary Riepma Ross Media
Arts Center, University of Nebraska Press, Office of the Nebraska
Secretary of State, Mari Sandoz Heritage Society, iUniverse, Lincoln
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Festival program
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