What brings L.A. together?
Thursday, April 23, 2009
If there's one thing I've learned in my years in Los Angeles, it's this: very few things can bring this community together. Because L.A. is segmented into many different small communities and people are so spread out over a large county, creating a center for all people to come and enjoy and celebrate something can prove difficult.One event that succeeds: the Festival of Books.
Why? It's at UCLA's pretty campus, provides two day's worth of lectures, panels, balloons, nice weather, free stuff, stamps, stickers, and books books books. It is free to get in, and many of the talks are also free of charge. It is like one big, fun intellectual celebration of the fact that it is still cool to read. (And to write.)
In its 13th year, the Festival attracts thousands of readers and lovers of books each year.
Panels this year that stick out to me as super cool: History: The Unknown Los Angeles, Memoirs with a Twist, The Future of News, Publishing 3.0: The Next Generation. Just to name a few.
I'm live blogging the event for the Los Angeles Times, so look for that on Twitter and on Jacket Copy.
Here's a link to the schedule, if you want to take a look.
In its 13th year, the Festival attracts thousands of readers and lovers of books each year.
Panels this year that stick out to me as super cool: History: The Unknown Los Angeles, Memoirs with a Twist, The Future of News, Publishing 3.0: The Next Generation. Just to name a few.
I'm live blogging the event for the Los Angeles Times, so look for that on Twitter and on Jacket Copy.
Here's a link to the schedule, if you want to take a look.
Where else can you see Ray Bradbury, DJ Waldie, T.C. Boyle and Wells Tower all in one place?One of my favorite L.A.-esque things to do: walk around the Festival, eating churros and drinking something frozen with my friends, enjoying the sun, sitting under trees.
Photos: I took these pictures last Saturday at an elementary school in Watts, where I do a monthly project with grade-school students. Ready to Learn helps kids to love reading and art. We read the kids books, then they read to us. And then we all do a huge art project together. Last week, we read The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. And then, as you can see, we made very hungry caterpillars (and some beautiful butterflies, for good measure).
posted by Lori Kozlowski # 12:13 PM 
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