ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html><head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <style type="text/css"> <!-- A { color: black; text-decoration:dotted } A:hover { line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 13px; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; color: black; background-color: #adca81} --> </style> <title>(downtown) omaha lit fest</title> <style type="text/css"> body { background-color: black; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; background-image:url(skylinebggreen.jpg); background-repeat: no-repeat; } #Container1 { position: relative; float: left; width: 49%; } #Container2 { float: left; width: 49%; } #MainSection { width: 650px; position: absolute; right: -325px; background: white; height: auto; } #SecondarySection1 { padding-right: 50px; background: white; } #SecondarySection2 { padding-left: 50px; background: white; } </style> <style type="text/css"> <!-- .style15 {color: #000000} #navigation { margin: 0px; position: relative; top: 25px; } #content { z-index: 99; left: 301px; width: 320px; top: -160px; position: relative; } #typewriter { margin-left: 12px; margin-top: 40px; z-index: 98; top: -200px; height: 215px; width: 268px; } h2 { font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 3px; text-transform: uppercase; text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; font-weight: bold; font-size: 13px; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; } p { color: black; line-height: 1.5em; word-wrap: normal; font-size: 13px; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; } p5 { text-align: center; color: #adca81; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 1.5px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; } A:link { line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 13px; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; color: black; background-color: none } --> </style> </head> <body> <div id="Container1"> <div id="MainSection"> <div id="navigation"> <img src="logo-plus-links2.jpg" usemap="#Map" border="0"> <map name="Map"> <area shape="rect" coords="60,105,125,121" href="http://omahalitfest.com/writers.html"> <area shape="rect" coords="170,105,230,121" href="http://omahalitfest.com/events.html"> <area shape="rect" coords="283,105,350,121" href="http://omahalitfest.com/donate.html"> <area shape="rect" coords="400,105,470,121" href="http://omahalitfest.com/aboutus.html"> <area shape="rect" coords="525,105,570,121" href="http://omahalitfest.com/links.html"> <area shape="poly" coords="71,92,279,61,280,12,152,17,59,30,70,93" href="http://omahalitfest.com/index.html"> </map> </div> <div id="typewriter"> <img src="typewriter-image.jpg" height="215" width="268"> </div> <div id="content"> <img src="/images/2011/dolfposter11.jpg" width="320" height="208"> <h2>Schedule of Events<br> October 13-15, 2011<br> omahalitfest.com</h2> <p><em>Free & open to the public (except where noted)</em><br> at <strong>W. Dale Clark Library</strong> (downtown branch of Omaha Public Library; 215 S. 15th St.) and <strong>KANEKO</strong> (11th and Jones) and satellite events at <strong>Joslyn Art Museum, House of Loom,</strong> and other locations throughout the month of October.</p> <hr> <h2>Thursday, Oct 13<br> 5-6 pm<br> panel discussion</h2> <p>W. Dale Clark Library, fourth floor, 215 S. 15th St. (Free & open to the public)</p> <p><strong><em>Defining Omaha: Writing about local arts & culture.</em></strong><br> Local writers who focus on arts, entertainment, and culture (for the Omaha World-Herald, the Reader, and other publications and websites) discuss the role that language/criticism/communication plays in the cultural advancement of a city. Is arts coverage integral to creating a "scene" of interest to media both inside and outside the city? What is the relationship between artists and the journalists who write about them?</p> <p>Discussion led by Sally Brown Deskins (Les Femmes Folles, website); featuring Sarah Baker-Hansen, Leo Adam Biga, Kim Carpenter, Michael Krainak, and Rainbow Rowell.</p> <hr> <h2>Friday, Oct 14<br> 6:30 pm-9:30 pm<br> opening-night reception & art exhibits</h2> <p>W. Dale Clark Library, fourth floor, 215 S. 15th St. (Free & open to the public)</p> <p>The evening features <strong>cupcakes & champagne</strong>, two art exhibits, and exhibits based on literary perfumes, illustration, and typewriter poetry (featuring Burn District, the new poetry journal).</p> <p>Art exhibit #1:<br> <strong><em>Possessions: literary characters and the things they carried.</em></strong><br> <img src="/images/2011/artExhibit1.jpg" width="140" height="140" style="float:left; margin-right:8px; margin-top:4px;"> The exhibit will feature artists' interpretations of literary artifacts, in a variety of media&mdash;namely: the props, objects, fashions, food, and jewelry of famous literary characters. (Think Hester Prynn's scarlet letter; Mrs. Dalloway's flowers; Miss Havisham's wedding cake.)</p> <p>The pieces will be available for sale at this one-night-only art show, with 50 percent benefitting the artist and 50 percent benefitting lit fest and the literary events/projects it hosts and supports.</p> <p><em>"Letters for Blanche"<br> (objects from </em>Streetcar Named Desire<em>) by Michael Muller</em></p> <p>Featured artists: Lynn Batten, Eddith Buis, Miss Cake, Peter Cales, JJ Carroll, Matthew Clouse, Jay Cochran, Julie Conway, Wanda Ewing, Rodger Gerberding, Rob Gilmer, Jaime Hackbart, Anthony Hawley, Danelle Hibma, Karen Kessler, Jeffrey Koterba, Chris Lawson, Mike Loftus, Marvel Maring, Amy Mather, Timothy McEvoy, Matt McNabb, Linda Miegs, Michael Muller, Troy Muller, Bonnie O'Connell, Kristin Pluhacek, Eric Post, Shari Huetson Post, Rodney Rahl, Michael Scheef, Bryce Speed, Jordan Statz, Nolan Treadway, Bart Vargas, Roxanne Wach, Trilety Wade, Watie White, & MORE (or fewer).</p> <p>Art exhibit #2:<br> <strong>Book It!: Cover Design</strong><br> AIGA Nebraska, a professional association for designers, hosted a design competition that called for designers to reinterpret the covers of classic novels, such as The Wizard of Oz, Great Expectations, Wuthering Heights, and Dracula. The contest's spectacular results (in both small and large scale) are on display during the omaha lit fest. (And join us again on Saturday at noon for a discussion with AIGA members about the contest and the particulars of book cover design.)</p> <hr> <h2>Saturday, Oct 15<br> 11 am-8 pm<br> panel discussions & evening book launch/art exhibit</h2> <p>Morning/afternoon panels (11 am-5 pm) at W. Dale Clark Library, fourth floor, 215 S. 15th St.<br> Evening book launch (7 pm) at KANEKO, 11th and Jones.<br> (All events free & open to the public)</p> <p>at W. Dale Clark Library:<br> 11 am<br> <strong><em>The Process of Small-Press and Self-Publishing: Creative approaches to getting your story in print.</em></strong> The panel consists of writers, editors, and publicity professionals sharing their experiences with the many aspects of small press and self-publishing. Includes publishers Cindy Grady (WriteLife), Liz Kay (burntdistrict), and Erin Pankowski (Concierge Marketing), and authors Jeff Kurrus (<em>Have You Seen Mary?</em>, a children s book), Nancy Rips (<em>Seder Stories</em>), and Wendy Townley (<em>Nerdy Thirty</em>, humorous essays).</p> <p>Noon<br> <strong><em>The Process of Design: Members of AIGA discuss book covers.</em></strong><br> Members of the Omaha chapter of AIGA, the professional association for design, discuss their exhibit featuring re-designs of covers of classic novels, their approach to cover design, and some of their favorite book covers.</p> <p>1 pm<br> <strong><em>Manufacturing Glamour: Building the beauty myths.</em></strong><br> Writers discuss literary style, the elegance of objects, and the romance of travel. With writer and publicist Lauren Cerand (<a href="http://www.luxlotus.com">LuxLotus.com</a>), essayist and playwright Rachel Shukert (<em>Everything Is Going to be Great</em>), and novelist Carolyn Turgeon (<em>Mermaid</em>).</p> <p><strong>{Afternoon literary salon; 2-5 pm; W. Dale Clark Library}</strong><br> Join us for coffee and leftover cupcakes (and various other scraps), as we spend the afternoon discussing the writing process, in an informal setting of chit-chat and back-and-forth. Each hour, a trio of authors (mostly local, a few otherwise) engage in conversation about the writing process, the business of publishing, and the nature of creativity.</p> <p>2 pm<br> <strong>Jeffrey Koterba</strong> (author of <em>Inklings</em>, on memoir and cartoons), <strong>David Philip Mullins</strong> (author of <em>Greetings From Below</em>, on short stories), <strong>Rachel Shukert</strong> (author of <em>Have You No Shame?</em>, on memoir, satire, and playwriting)</p> <p>3 pm<br> Novelists <strong>Rainbow Rowell</strong> (<em>Attachments</em>), <strong>Mary Helen Stefaniak</strong> (<em>The Cailiffs of Baghdad</em>, <em>Georgia</em>), <strong>Terese Svoboda</strong> (<em>Bohemian Girl</em>)</p> <p>4 pm<br> Novelists <strong>Jo-Ann Mapson</strong> (<em>Solomon's Oak</em>), <strong>Timothy Schaffert</strong> (<em>The Coffins of Little Hope</em>), <strong>Carolyn Turgeon</strong> (<em>Mermaid</em>)</p> <p>Saturday evening, Oct 15<br> Discussion at 7 pm; followed by reception/exhibit at 7:30-8:30 pm.<br> <strong>Bohemian Girl: An evening with Terese Svoboda</strong><br> on Cather, creativity, literary theft, and historical fiction.<br> KANEKO (11th and Jones)<br> (free and open to the public)<br> <p><img src="/images/2011/svoboda.jpg" width="140" height="214" style="float:left; margin-right:8px; margin-top:4px;"> Interview with acclaimed novelist, poet, and nonfiction author Terese Svoboda, led by Timothy Schaffert, director of (downtown) omaha lit fest, on the occasion of the publication of Svoboda's new novel <em>Bohemian Girl</em> (Flyover Fiction, University of Nebraska Press). Evening also features reception and an exhibit by artist Peter Cales: "The Pumpkin Moon: Scrap-wood balloons"</p> <p>Reviewers have called novelist Terese Svoboda a "fabulous fabulist." Her first novel was lauded by Vogue as a female <em>Heart of Darkness</em>. "She will, of course, be compared to Willa Cather&mdash;and deservedly so," wrote Kurt Andersen about her new <em>Bohemian Girl</em>. A cross between <em>True Grit</em> and <em>Huckleberry Finn</em>, <em>Bohemian Girl</em> is the Bohemian answer to Willa Cather. Svoboda lifts the shadows of American history as she illuminates one brave girl's determined quest for self-discovery.</p> <p>Svoboda grew up in western Nebraska and now lives in New York City. Her writing has been featured in The New Yorker, New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. Before obtaining her M.F.A. at Columbia, she filmed dance in the Cook Islands and traveled to Sudan, living with the Nuer people. She has also created videos and documentaries that have been shown on PBS, the Museum of Modern Art, the Getty, and internationally. Her libretto for WET, a chamber opera, premiered at Disney's RedCat performance space in L.A. in November 2005. When not teaching, she writes proposals for new technology.</p> <p><img src="/images/2011/balloon4.jpg" width="140" height="216" style="float:left; margin-right:8px; margin-top:4px;"><strong><< Balloon # 4, with patches and sandbags; wood, paper</strong><br> Through Peter Cales' studio and business, Measure Cut Cut, he creates one-of-a-kind furniture pieces on commission. He also explores more whimsical forms through traditional sculptural methods. A visit to a childhood balloon festival, combined with exposure to myriad old machines and hand tools, and Leonardo Da Vinci's drawings for flying machines, resulted in Cales' balloons hand-turned on a 1978 Rockwell spindle lathe. They're made mostly of scrap wood from other projects. Some of them contain drawers and doors.</p> <hr> <h2>Other events of note:</h2> <p>Oct 19<br> <strong><em>Lit Undressed presents: Fashion in Literature</em></strong><br> 8p.m., House of Loom (1012 S. 10th Street)<br> Cost: $10<br> Open only to ages 21+</p> <p>Adopting the lit fest art exhibit theme of literary objects, Lit Undressed explores fashion&mdash;from the Tin Woodman's heart of silk and sawdust in <em>The Wonderful Wizard of Oz</em>, to Jay Gatsby's pink rag of a suit in <em>The Great Gatsby</em>, to Jane Eyre's grey and black gowns and Virginia Woolf's explanation of fashion in <em>Orlando</em>.</p> <p>Lit Undressed is a project combining performance and reading with an emphasis on literature beyond the naked. Traditionally silent nude figure models become storytellers as they read classic excerpts, poems and selected writings from contemporary authors on the theme of Fashion in Literature, allowing their voices to be heard and bodies to be read.</p> <p>Oct 20<br> <strong><em>Personal Effects: Poetry Inspired by Objects in Art.</em></strong><br> A poetry/art tour<br> Joslyn Art Museum, 6:30 pm. (cost: Joslyn admission)</p> <p><img src="/images/2011/personalEffects.jpg" width="140" height="119" style="float:left; margin-right:8px; margin-top:4px;">The tutu worn by Degas' "Little Dancer" the hand mirror in "Venus at Her Toilette"; the newspaper tossed to the ground in Chase's "Sunlight and Shadow." The objects and possessions in art catch our eye and inform the portraits, giving us glimpses into the lives of the subjects. For "Personal Effects," poets from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's acclaimed creative writing PhD program will read original poetry inspired by various objects in the artwork in Joslyn's collection, in this Joslyn partnership with the (downtown) omaha lit fest.</p> <p>Oct 22-23<br> <strong><em>Omaha Creative Institute workshops</em></strong><br> Ideas and Blogging, with Wendy Townley; Self-publishing, with Wendy Townley and Michael Campbell; Promoting Your Writing, with Wendy Townley.</p> <p>For times, costs, and registration, visit <a href="http://www.omahacreativeinstitute.org">Omaha Creative Institute's website</a> or visit <a href="http://wendywriter.com">Wendy Townley's website</a>. <p align="center"><img src="/images/2011/oplLogo.jpg" width="140" height="241"></p> </div> </body></html>