Nationwide Activities

Connecticut

The Connecticut Center for the Book will begin its promotion of the National Book Festival on Sept. 20 at two events: its high profile One Book for Greater Hartford regional event at the Connecticut State Library and its Festival of Caribbean Literature (Sept. 20-21) at the Hartford Public Library. Edwidge Danticat, author of Breath, Eyes, Memory, the book selected for greater Hartford, will make a presentation and sign her book at the Connecticut State Library, where National Book Festival promotional materials will be displayed. On Sept. 21, she will visit Hartford Public Library's Caribbean Book Fair, a key component in the Festival of Caribbean Literature's promotion of the National Book Festival. This festival, a complete program of authors reading from their works, storytellers, filmmakers, craftspeople, and artists supported by Connecticut publishers and booksellers, will draw participants from the large Caribbean and other ethnic communities throughout Connecticut-particularly in Hartford, Bridgeport, and Stamford. National Book Festival materials also will be distributed to project partners, including more than a dozen public libraries across the state, the University of Connecticut, and the state's Immigration and Refugee Service. The Summer issue of the Connecticut Center for the Book's newsletter Readings (mailed to 40 affiliates and 1500 individuals and businesses) will promote the National Book Festival.

Contact: Kat Lyons, phone: 860-695-6320, fax: 860-722-6870, e-mail: klyons@hartfordpl.lib.ct.us