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The 15th Annual Utah Humanities Book Festival!

Mark your calendars for the first week in October!

October starts off strong with a terrific lineup of book festival authors. Plan to join us for some compelling conversations as we officially kick off National Book Month! Here are some of the events coming up next week:  



River of Victory, The Rent Collector
Date: Monday, Oct. 1, 2012
Time: 6:30 pm
Location: Auditorium, Salt Lake Public Library, 210 East 400 South

Come watch River of Victory, finalist for the prestigious IDA Awards and the documentary that inspired the book The Rent Collector, a novel based on the film. Both the documentary and book reveal the journey of a young mother living at the largest municipal waste dump in Cambodia. Both the author and filmmakers will discuss the work. Camron Wright, author of the book, is also father to one of the filmmakers, Trevor Wright.

Architectures of Possibility

Date: Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Auditorium, Salt Lake Public Library, 210 East 400 South

Novelist, essayist, and Guggenheim winner, Lance Olsen is interviewed about his anti-textbook, Architectures of Possibility. Architectures of Possibility (a collaboration by Lance Olsen and Trevor Dodge) is all about taking chances, trying to compose in alternative, surprising, revelatory directions, about trying to move out of your comfort zone to discover what might lie on the other side.

The Midwife
Date: Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Auditorium, Salt Lake Public Library, 210 East 400 South

Panel on midwifery featuring midwives Laurine Kingston (subject of the biography The Midwife by Victoria Burgess), Raeann Peck, Sherri Price, and moderator Krisit Ridd-Young. The panel will focus on Midwifery and its role in contemporary medicine.



What Teachers Make
Date: Saturday, Oct. 6, 2012
Time: 5:00 pm
Location:  Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 West Temple, Salt Lake City

What do teachers make? Far more than we credit them for. Taylor Mali explains the what, how, and why of teaching and shares a few poems.Taylor Mali is one of the most well-known poets to have emerged from the poetry slam movement. Mali is a vocal advocate of teachers and the nobility of teaching, having spent nine years in the classroom teaching everything from English and history to math and S.A.T. test preparation.

Join us all month long!
As September comes to a close, remember that October is National Book Month and we look forward to seeing you at the book festival events. Stay connected with us on 
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