Apr 26 Friday
We invite you to enjoy our 53rd Annual Conference: Liberating Literacies: Stories That Sing! You will be in the presence of some wonderful keynote speakers such as: Gholdy Muhammad our Thursday Morning Keynote, Kelly Gallagher Thursday Afternoon Keynote, Lorena Escoto Germán Friday Morning Keynote and Lauren WolkFriday Afternoon Keynote and 2024 Children's Literature Award Recipient. There are many other wonderful speakers joining the line-up. Please check out the website and learn more about the schedule for each day!
Join us on Friday, April 26 for a public reading and reception with Mason Currey, author of the Daily Rituals books. This event is free and open to the public. RSVPs are required.
In 2007, while procrastinating on a magazine article due the next morning, Mason Currey launched the Daily Routines blog, which, to his surprise, eventually attracted international press attention and thousands of visitors a day. In 2009, Currey shuttered the blog to research a book on the same theme. When it was published in 2013, Daily Rituals: How Artists Work was reviewed by the New Yorker, the Guardian, the Wall Street Journal, and the Believer and named one of NPR’s best books of the year. It has since been translated into 17 languages.
In 2019, Currey published a sequel, Daily Rituals: Women at Work, featuring profiles of the day-to-day working lives of 143 women writers, artists, and performers. Booklist said, “The spectrum of creativity is radiant, and each artist’s rituals of concentration and balancing act between art and life are revelatory and awe-inspiring.”
In addition to compiling the Daily Rituals books, Currey was a design-magazine editor for ten years, working as the managing editor of Metropolis, the executive editor of Print, and a senior editor at Core77. His freelance writing has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, and Slate, and he has delivered talks on the creative process to art students, writers’ groups, and the partners of the design consultancy IDEO.
Apr 27 Saturday
Join High Five Books and award-winning author, illustrator and graphic novelist Cece Bell for an early evening family art and music extravaganza—with hot, fresh donuts! The beloved creator of #1 New York Times bestselling and Newbery Honor-winning El Deafo (now an animated show on Apple TV+) and many other books that young people adore (Sock Monkey; Chick and Brain; Rabbit and Robot: The Sleepover) will lead artists and readers through the process of creating her latest all-ages alphabet book Animal Albums from A to Z, a hand-wrought, high-fidelity, hilariously tongue-in-cheek homage to the golden days of album cover art.
Cece will spin original tunes from Animal Albums, lead drawing demonstrations (and maybe a dance-a-thon!), discuss the new book and its connection to El Deafo, and answer all her fans’ questions. Readers are welcome to bring their own book copies for signing; all titles will be also available for purchase. Wake the Dead Donuts will have fresh mini donuts and donut sundaes for sale.
May 10 Friday
Sundog Poetry and Green Writers Press present an evening of poetry featuring Julia C. Alter, winner of the 2023 Sundog Poetry Book Award for Some Dark Familiar, and special guests Pablo Medina, Rage Hezekiah, and Ben Aleshire.
May 14 Tuesday
In celebration of Preservation Month, The Landmark Trust USA is excited to bring noted scholar and vernacular architecture historian Thomas C. Hubka to Southern Vermont to speak on his seminal book on one of Northern New England’s most unique and distinct forms of architecture. The book, which received the Abbot Lowell Cummings Award from the Vernacular Architecture Forum, has been in continuous publication for 40 years and has become a scholarly and popular standard for New England architecture history and cultural studies. It has been widely cited as a model for regional architectural studies combining architectural and social/historical study.
This engaging talk will highlight the four essential components of the stately and beautiful connected farm buildings made by nineteenth-century New Englanders that stand today as a living expression of a rural culture, offering insights into the people who made them and their agricultural way of life. It will feature numerous local examples as well as The Landmark Trust USA’s own Amos Brown House in Whitingham, VT.
Books will be available for purchase to be signed by the author with all proceeds supporting The Landmark Trust USA’s historic preservation work.
This program is supported in part by Vermont Humanities.