Nebraska Book Festival

October 17, 2008 – October 18, 2008

Web site: http://www.unl.edu/NCB/current_festival.html

Events: http://www.unl.edu/NCB/Schedule.… (updated February 14)

Amenities: food/drink

Description: The Festival is free and open to the public with no pre-registration required except for the luncheon. It will include panel discussions, writing workshops, round table discussions, poetry and prose readings, book sales, and other events for adult readers and writers. These will be held at various locations in downtown Lincoln.

The Lincoln Children's Museum will host a program for children, developed by Erika Hamilton, of the Nebraska Humanities Council, which features storytellers and hands-on writing experiences.

The Festival will close Saturday evening with a reception at the Great Plains Art Museum honoring Professor Paul Johnsgard, author of more than fifty books on birds and the Nebraska ecosystem.

The Nebraska Book Festival is sponsored by the Nebraska Arts Council, Nebraska Center for the Book, Nebraska Humanities Council, Nebraska Library Commission, and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Added by: Jeanetta.  Contacted: Yes.  Venue ID: 34762