| WEEKEND TIMELINE - YOU CAN ALSO CLICK ON THE INDIVIDUAL STAGE SCHEDULES ABOVE |
| Friday September 25, 2009 |
| 12:00 PM |
SPECIAL EVENT - KICKING OFF THE FESTIVAL'S NOON OPENING ON FRIDAY! Workplace guru and GMA contributor Tory Johnson shares her invaluable career advice, "Fired to Hired" |
Literary Salon |
| 12:00 PM |
Lunch with Julia - have lunch with Baltimore's best chefs while they demo their favorite Julia Child recipe! |
Food for Thought Stage |
| 12:00 PM |
Sandy Lawler, chef/owner, Feast @ 4 East |
Food for Thought Stage |
| 12:00 PM |
Free Friday Feedback: Got lit? Get feedback! |
CityLit Stage |
| 12:00 PM |
Poets Ink Workshop |
Creative Cafe |
| 12:00 PM |
Unity |
Music Stage |
| 12:30 PM |
Dara Bunjon, president, Dara Does It; editor, "YUM! Tasty Recipes from Culinary Greats" |
Food for Thought Stage |
| 1:00 PM |
Jesse Sandlin, Executive Chef, Abacrombie |
Food for Thought Stage |
| 1:30 PM |
William McKinley, Executive Chef, McCormick & Schmick's Seafood Restaurant #41 |
Food for Thought Stage |
| 1:30 PM |
Panel: Bounce Back from the Recession: Taking Control of Your Finances and Your Life with Monique Tilford, Dr. Robert Wicks & Jacquette M. Timmons |
Literary Salon |
| 1:30 PM |
Cherrie Amour, spoken word |
Creative Cafe |
| 2:00 PM |
The Exceptional Pleasures - and Unexpected Perils - of Grandparenthood |
Creative Cafe |
| 2:00 PM |
Sara Engram and Katie Luber, "The Spice Kitchen" |
Food for Thought Stage |
| 2:30 PM |
ATTENTION AUTHORS! Here's Your Chance to Get FREE Marketing Tips from a Pro - PJ Campbell, "101 Author Tips for Creating a Successful Book Campaign" |
Literary Salon |
| 2:30 PM |
Carolyn Malachi |
Music Stage |
| 3:00 PM |
Poet on Guitar - Sticky Mulligan |
Creative Cafe |
| 3:30 PM |
Panel: Black Money-Why the Urban Genre is Remaking the Book Business - Presented by Obie Joe Media |
Literary Salon |
| 3:30 PM |
Johnny Mo "The Musical Chef," "Rock the Kitchen" |
Food for Thought Stage |
| 4:00 PM |
Kiki Petrosino, "Fort Red Border" & Merrill Feitell, "Here Beneath Low Flying Planes" |
Creative Cafe |
| 4:00 PM |
Old Man Brown |
Music Stage |
| 4:15 PM |
Panel: Will Online Save the Printed Word? - Presented by Obie Joe Media |
Literary Salon |
| 5:00 PM |
Farai Chideya, "Kiss the Sky" |
Literary Salon |
| 5:00 PM |
IT'S YA NIGHT AT BBF! Giveaways, author meet and greets and more. If you love to read, don't miss this event! |
Children's Bookstore Stage |
| 5:00 PM |
Panel: Coming of Age: Love, Rage & Anxiety in the Young Adult Novel-Libba Bray, Sharon M. Draper, Garret Freymann-Weyr, Edward Bloor & David Levithan |
Children's Bookstore Stage |
| 5:00 PM |
CityLit Literary Happy Hour with Clipper City Brewing |
CityLit Stage |
| 5:00 PM |
MSAC Poetry Reading |
Creative Cafe |
| 5:30 PM |
BBF Happy Hour: Kim Hendrickson, Tara Mataraza Desmond & Dale DeGroff. Free samples from Diamond Tavern and Boordy Vineyards! |
Food for Thought Stage |
| 5:30 PM |
Wolfpac |
Music Stage |
| 5:30 PM |
Kim Hendrickson, "Tastefully Small" cookbook series |
Food for Thought Stage |
| 6:00 PM |
Panel: The Art, Culture and Business of Hip Hop with Thembisa Mshaka, Booker T. Mattison and Mickey Hess |
Literary Salon |
| 6:00 PM |
Robert King, "From the Bottom of the Heap: The Autobiography of Black Panther Robert Hillary King" |
Radical Bookfair Pavilion |
| 6:00 PM |
Baltimore Playwrights Festival (BPF) |
Baltimore Theatre Alliance |
| 6:00 PM |
Poetry Animations: Creativity From All Angles |
CityLit Stage |
| 6:00 PM |
Altered Book Workshop |
CityLit Stage |
| 6:15 PM |
Tara Mataraza Desmond, "Almost Meatless" |
Food for Thought Stage |
| 7:00 PM |
Dale DeGroff, "The Essential Cocktail" |
Food for Thought Stage |
| 7:00 PM |
Speak & Spin |
Literary Salon |
| 7:00 PM |
Gregg Mosson, "Questions of Fire" |
Creative Cafe |
| 7:00 PM |
The Crawdaddies |
Music Stage |
| 7:30 PM |
The Politics of the Poem |
Creative Cafe |
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| Saturday September 26, 2009 |
| 12:00 PM |
The Book Club Toolkit: Tools and Tips for Starting and Improving Your Book Club |
Creative Cafe |
| 12:00 PM |
S. Muralidharan, "A Short Course in Culinary Experiments: Vegetarian Indian Cuisine for Innovative Non-Experts" |
Food for Thought Stage |
| 12:00 PM |
Mambo Combo |
Music Stage |
| 12:00 PM |
Steve Early, "Embedded With Organized Labor: Journalistic Reflections on the Class War at Home" |
Radical Bookfair Pavilion |
| 12:00 PM |
Panel: Spirit of Place / Baltimore's Favorite Spaces |
Literary Salon |
| 12:00 PM |
Susan Roth, "Listen to Wind" |
Children's Bookstore Stage |
| 12:00 PM |
Panel: School of Lit |
CityLit Stage |
| 12:30 PM |
Hudson Talbott, "United Tweets of America" |
Children's Bookstore Stage |
| 1:00 PM |
Mordicai Gerstein, "Minifred Goes to School" |
Children's Bookstore Stage |
| 1:00 PM |
Buzz Aldrin, "Magnificent Desolation" |
Literary Salon |
| 1:00 PM |
Panel: Buildings Alive - with Baltimore's Dead Architects Society - Presented by the Baltimore Architecture Foundation |
CityLit Stage |
| 1:00 PM |
Vikki Law, "Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women" |
Radical Bookfair Pavilion |
| 1:00 PM |
Literary Walking Tours |
Literary Walking Tours |
| 1:00 PM |
Poetry of Vision: A Panel Discussion and Reading |
Creative Cafe |
| 1:00 PM |
Bruce Weinstein & Mark Scarbrough, "Cooking Know-How" |
Food for Thought Stage |
| 1:15 PM |
David Andrew Smith |
Music Stage |
| 1:30 PM |
Peter McCarty, "Jeremy Draws a Monster" |
Children's Bookstore Stage |
| 2:00 PM |
Matthew Baek, "Panda and Polar Bear" |
Children's Bookstore Stage |
| 2:00 PM |
Lizzie Skurnick, "Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading" with Laura Lippman and The Sun's Nancy Johnston |
CityLit Stage |
| 2:00 PM |
Eileen Myles, "The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays on Art" |
Radical Bookfair Pavilion |
| 2:00 PM |
The Electric Company |
The Walters Art Museum |
| 2:00 PM |
Split This Rock: Reading and Open Mic |
Creative Cafe |
| 2:30 PM |
Lourdes Castro, "Simply Mexican" |
Food for Thought Stage |
| 2:30 PM |
Archie’s Barbershop Jambassadors |
Music Stage |
| 2:30 PM |
Judy Schachner, "Skippyjon Jones, Lost in Spice" |
Children's Bookstore Stage |
| 2:30 PM |
Panel: Fabulous Females of Fiction - with NY Times bestselling authors Donna Andrews, Margot Berwin, Lyah Beth LeFlore & Mary Monroe |
Literary Salon |
| 3:00 PM |
Michael Rex, "Runaway Mummy" |
Children's Bookstore Stage |
| 3:00 PM |
An Assortment of Authors: Elissa Weissman, Mildred Muhammad, Ben Shaberman and Lia Purpura |
CityLit Stage |
| 3:00 PM |
Children's Reading Circle |
Radical Bookfair Pavilion |
| 3:00 PM |
Literary Walking Tours |
Literary Walking Tours |
| 3:00 PM |
Baltimore National Heritage Area |
Literary Walking Tours |
| 3:00 PM |
Djelloul Marbrook, "Far From Algiers" & Kim Jensen, "Bread Alone" |
Creative Cafe |
| 3:30 PM |
AT THE LITERARY SALON: Amiri Baraka, "Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music" |
Radical Bookfair Pavilion |
| 3:30 PM |
Steve Breen, "Violet the Pilot" |
Children's Bookstore Stage |
| 3:30 PM |
Amiri Baraka, "Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music" - Presented by the Radical Bookfair Pavilion |
Literary Salon |
| 4:00 PM |
Michelle Knudsen, "Library Lion" |
Children's Bookstore Stage |
| 4:00 PM |
Panel: To Form or Not To Form: A Converation with Cave Canem Poets |
CityLit Stage |
| 4:00 PM |
The Get 'Em Girls, "The Get 'Em Girls Guide to the Perfect Get-Together" |
Food for Thought Stage |
| 4:00 PM |
Live Silkscreening Demo with the Justseeds Cooperative |
Radical Bookfair Pavilion |
| 4:00 PM |
Excellent Productions: In His Name |
Baltimore Theatre Alliance |
| 4:00 PM |
Kerensa Gray |
Music Stage |
| 4:00 PM |
Deanna Nikaido, "A Voice Like Water" & Kwame Alexander, "And Then You Know" |
Creative Cafe |
| 4:30 PM |
Patrick O'Brien, "You Are the First Kid on Mars" |
Children's Bookstore Stage |
| 5:00 PM |
510 Reading Series |
CityLit Stage |
| 5:00 PM |
James Warhola, "Uncle Andy's Cats" |
Children's Bookstore Stage |
| 5:00 PM |
Chris Gardner, "Start Where You Are: Life Lessons in Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be" |
Literary Salon |
| 5:00 PM |
Black Sand & Sound |
Creative Cafe |
| 5:00 PM |
Barry Sanders, "The Green Zone: The Environmental Costs of Militarism" |
Radical Bookfair Pavilion |
| 5:00 PM |
On The Road Theatre, The Six of Us |
Baltimore Theatre Alliance |
| 5:30 PM |
The Players |
Music Stage |
| 5:30 PM |
Lulu Delacre, "Alicia Afterimage" |
Children's Bookstore Stage |
| 5:30 PM |
Rose Levy Beranbaum, "Rose's Heavenly Cakes" |
Food for Thought Stage |
| 6:00 PM |
Panel: Teen Girls, Art & Education - Celia Anderson, Jessica Care-Moore, Cora Coleman Dunham & Patrick Oliver. |
Children's Bookstore Stage |
| 6:00 PM |
Andrej Grubacic, "Wobblies & Zapatistas: Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism, and Radical History" |
Radical Bookfair Pavilion |
| 6:00 PM |
Chapter Three |
Creative Cafe |
| 6:30 PM |
AT THE LITERARY SALON: Ralph Nader, "Only The Super-Rich Can Save Us!" |
Radical Bookfair Pavilion |
| 6:30 PM |
Ralph Nader, "Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!" - presented by the Radical Bookfair Pavilion |
Literary Salon |
| 6:30 PM |
Stories and Songs: The Wayfarers |
CityLit Stage |
| 7:00 PM |
Ingrid Hoffmann, "Simply Delicioso: A Collection of Everyday Recipes with a Latin Twist" |
Food for Thought Stage |
| 7:00 PM |
Higher Hands |
Music Stage |
| 7:00 PM |
Matt Pless, Sam Schmidt & Virginia Crawford |
Creative Cafe |
| 8:00 PM |
BFFs of BBF: The Official Baltimore Book Festival After Party |
Literary Salon |
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| Sunday September 27, 2009 |
| 12:00 PM |
James McBride, "Song Yet Sung" - One Maryland One Book 2009 |
Literary Salon |
| 12:00 PM |
Lois Lowry, "Crow Call" |
Children's Bookstore Stage |
| 12:00 PM |
What You're Writing! |
CityLit Stage |
| 12:00 PM |
Poet on Guitar |
Creative Cafe |
| 12:00 PM |
Nancy Tringali Piho, "My Two-Year Old Eats Octopus: Rasing Children Who Love to Eat Everything" |
Food for Thought Stage |
| 12:00 PM |
Julian Quander |
Music Stage |
| 12:00 PM |
Playwrights Group of Baltimore |
Baltimore Theatre Alliance |
| 12:00 PM |
Dave Zirin, "A People's History of Sports in the United States" |
Radical Bookfair Pavilion |
| 12:30 PM |
Cave Canem Reading |
Creative Cafe |
| 12:30 PM |
James L. Swanson, "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" |
Children's Bookstore Stage |
| 1:00 PM |
Zetta Elliott & Shadra Strickland, "Bird" |
Children's Bookstore Stage |
| 1:00 PM |
R. Dwayne Betts, "A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival and Coming of Age in Prison" |
Literary Salon |
| 1:00 PM |
Zoh Hieronimus: "Kabbalistic Teachings of the Female Prophets" |
CityLit Stage |
| 1:00 PM |
Literary Walking Tours |
Literary Walking Tours |
| 1:00 PM |
Audrey Herman Spotlighters Theatre |
Baltimore Theatre Alliance |
| 1:00 PM |
Molefi Kete Asante, "The History of Africa: The Quest for Eternal Harmony" |
Radical Bookfair Pavilion |
| 1:30 PM |
Automatic Slim |
Music Stage |
| 1:30 PM |
Toni Lydecker, "Seafood alla Siciliana" |
Food for Thought Stage |
| 1:30 PM |
Lisa McCue, "Quiet Bunny" |
Children's Bookstore Stage |
| 2:00 PM |
Gwen Ifill, "The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama" |
Literary Salon |
| 2:00 PM |
Panel: Getting It Written, Getting It Published: The Facts About Fiction with Philipp Meyer, "American Rust," James Magruder, "Sugarless" and Geoffrey Becker, "Black Elvis" |
CityLit Stage |
| 2:00 PM |
Liz Kessler, "The Tail of Emily Windsnap" and "Philipa Fisher and the Dream-Maker's Daughter" |
Children's Bookstore Stage |
| 2:00 PM |
Dinosaur Name Poems: Bilingual Verses |
Creative Cafe |
| 2:00 PM |
Bill Ayers, "Race Course: Against White Supremacy" |
Radical Bookfair Pavilion |
| 2:00 PM |
Winters Lane |
Baltimore Theatre Alliance |
| 2:30 PM |
Panel: Maryland Novelists - Mary Downing Hahn, Elissa Weissman, William Loizeaux & Andrew Auseon |
Children's Bookstore Stage |
| 3:00 PM |
Connie Imboden, "Reflections: 25 Years of Photography" |
CityLit Stage |
| 3:00 PM |
Panel: Our Daughters, Our Sons, Ourselves...Stories from Parents - David Miller, Pamela Thomas & Jane Satterfield - presented by CityLit Project |
Literary Salon |
| 3:00 PM |
Margaret Killjoy: "Mythmakers and Lawbreakers: Anarchist Writers on Fiction" |
Radical Bookfair Pavilion |
| 3:00 PM |
Lower Case Blues |
Music Stage |
| 3:00 PM |
Spontaneous Poetry |
Creative Cafe |
| 3:00 PM |
Literary Walking Tours |
Literary Walking Tours |
| 3:00 PM |
Baltimore National Heritage Area |
Literary Walking Tours |
| 3:00 PM |
Charles Mattocks, "Eat Cheap But Eat Well: The Poor Chef Cookbook" |
Food for Thought Stage |
| 4:00 PM |
The HeART of a Journal Workshop |
Creative Cafe |
| 4:00 PM |
Peter Kuper, "Diario de Mexico: A Sketchbook Journal of Two Years in Oaxaca" |
Radical Bookfair Pavilion |
| 4:00 PM |
Maureen McCormick, "Here's The Story: Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voice" |
Literary Salon |
| 4:00 PM |
Steve Luxenberg, "Annie's Ghosts: A Journey Into a Family Secret" |
CityLit Stage |
| 4:00 PM |
Tony Medina, "I and I Bob Marley" |
Children's Bookstore Stage |
| 4:30 PM |
Jennifer Keats Curtis, "Baby's Owl's Rescue" & Kathy Woods, Wildlife Rehabilitator |
Children's Bookstore Stage |
| 4:30 PM |
ellen cherry |
Music Stage |
| 4:30 PM |
Adam Ried, "Thoroughly Modern Milkshakes" |
Food for Thought Stage |
| 5:00 PM |
Lit & Art at the Watermark |
Creative Cafe |
| 5:00 PM |
Jon Jeter, "Flat Broke in the Free Market: How Globalization Fleeced Working People" |
Radical Bookfair Pavilion |
| 5:00 PM |
Strand Theatre |
Baltimore Theatre Alliance |
| 5:00 PM |
Kevin Sherry, "Acorns Everywhere" |
Children's Bookstore Stage |
| 5:00 PM |
Panel: Various Verse: A Poetry Discussion and Panel |
CityLit Stage |
| 5:30 PM |
Kevin O'Malley, "Once Upon a Cool Motorcycle Dude" |
Children's Bookstore Stage |
| 6:00 PM |
Keith Snow, "The Harvest Eating Cookbook" |
Food for Thought Stage |
| 6:00 PM |
Panel: Overblown, Overrated, Over the Top: Outrageous Readings from Celebrity Memoirs |
CityLit Stage |
| 6:00 PM |
Jeff Johnson, "Everything I’m Not Made Me Everything I Am" |
Literary Salon |
| 6:00 PM |
Three The Hardway |
Music Stage |
| 6:00 PM |
First Thoughts / Best Thoughts |
Creative Cafe |
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