Events
Thursday Sept. 23 | Friday, Sept. 24 | Saturday, Sept. 25 | Sunday, Sept. 26
FRIDAY | September 24th
All Day Events (10:00 AM – 4:00 PM)
SPECIAL EVENT – Location TBA – SD State Poetry Society Meeting
IMMIGRATION – Multi-Cultural Center – “Drawn to the Land: Homesteading Dakota” & “South Dakota Immigrants,” Explore two interactive museum exhibits about South Dakota’s earliest immigrants
9:00 – 11:00 AM
WORKSHOP – Orpheum, Classroom – Writer’s Support Workshop, “Screenwriting,” Crime noir novelist Anthony Neil Smith will conduct a workshop about writing for the screen. TICKET REQUIRED
WORKSHOP – Orpheum, Anne Zabel Studio Theater – Writer’s Support Workshop, “Writing Poetry,” Acclaimed Belarusian poet Valzhyna Mort will conduct a workshop about writing poetry. TICKET REQUIRED
10:00 – 11:00 AM
IMMIGRATION – Multi-Cultural Center – “Underground America,” Peter Orner
10:15 – 11:15 AM
SPECIAL EVENT – Holiday Inn, Embassy Rooms – “This Book is Overdue: Unplugged,” Noted cultural critic Marilyn Johnson hosts an engaging discussion about how librarians can save the world. Co-sponsored by the South Dakota Library Association
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
IMMIGRATION - Multi-Cultural Center – “Egypt/U.S. Big Read Showcase,” High school foreign exchange students from Cairo, Egypt, present a reader’s theatre based on a classic work of literature. Hosted by Dr. Hossam Fahmy
12:00 – 1:00 PM
SPECIAL EVENT – Barnes & Noble – “Food for Thought,” Live broadcast of South Dakota Public Radio’s literary arts hour
12:45 – 2:00 PM
SPECIAL EVENT – Holiday Inn, Starlite Room – “SDLA Lunch with Vicki Myron,” Join Vicki Myron, author of the bestselling book Dewey, for lunch and conversation. Co-sponsored by the South Dakota Library Association. TICKET REQUIRED (Tickets sold by SDLA)
1:00 – 2:30 PM
IMMIGRATION – Multi-Cultural Center – “The Stavig Letters,” Jane Rasmussen, John Rasmussen, and Gary Westgard
1:00 – 3:00 PM
WORKSHOP – Orpheum, Classroom – Writer’s Support Workshop, “Memoir Writing,” Professor of English at Iowa State and 2007 PEN USA Creative Nonfiction Award winner Debra Marquart will conduct a workshop about memoir writing. TICKET REQUIRED
WORKSHOP – Orpheum, Anne Zabel Studio Theater – Writer’s Support Workshop, “Writing Children’s Literature,” Pulitzer Prize nominee and #1 New York Times bestselling author Alison McGhee will conduct a workshop about writing children’s literature. TICKET REQUIRED
3:00 – 4:00 PM
SPECIAL EVENT – Orpheum, Main Theater – The Great Plains Radio Theatre Project presents Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” Enjoy the words of Mark Twain as you have never experienced them before...as an old-fashioned radio drama. Originally adapted for the radio by Orson Wells' "Mercury Theatre On the Air," Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer come alive as they discover life along the Mississippi River
IMMIGRATION – Multi-Cultural Center – “Denied, Detained, Deported: Tales from the Dark Side of American Immigration,” Ann Bausum
POETRY – Holiday Inn, Embassy Rooms – “The Politics of Language,” Acclaimed Belarusian poet Valyzhyna Mort reads at the South Dakota State Poetry Society Tea
MASS BOOK SIGNING – Holiday Inn, International Room – “Early Bird Book Signings”
3:00 – 5:00 PM
EXHIBITORS’ HALL – Holiday Inn, International Room – Exhibitors’ Hall open
6:00 – 8:30 PM
SPECIAL EVENT – Washington Pavilion, Everist Gallery – “Literary Feast: The Journey,” with Jimmy Santiago Baca, Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve, Susan Dworkin, David Laskin, Debra Marquart, and Thrity Umrigar. Hosted by Frank Delaney. TICKET REQUIRED
7:00 – 8:45 PM
FILM SCREENING – Multi-Cultural Center – “God Grew Tired of Us.” Four boys from Sudan embark on a journey to America after years of wandering Sub-Saharan Africa in search of safety