Carol Egbert/River Road Studio (c) 2009Conceived as an inclusive event for all ages and literary inclinations, Bookstock will feature performances, lectures, workshops, participatory poetry events and readings for children and adults from Friday evening through Saturday evening.
The Festival is also designed as a book browser and buyer's nirvana: a mammoth book sale combining the North Universalist Chapel Society's annual World's Greatest Book Sale with The Norman Williams Library summer book sale will offer tens of thousands of used books for sale. Several nationally recognized writers will participate, along with others familiar to Vermonters. All Bookstock offerings will be free of charge and open to the public.
The following programs are slated to occur at various sites including the Town Hall Theatre, Woodstock Elementary School, The Little Theater, Norman Williams Library, Woodstock Inn, Woodstock Green, Woodstock History Center--venues that are all accessible to people with disabilities and within easy walking distance of each other:
- Keynote address by author Reeve Lindbergh, performance of Woodstock Union High School Speakchorus under direction of Harriet Worrell, and opening reception (Unitarian Universalist Church, Friday, July 31, 2009, 7 pm)
- Storybook readings and storytelling for young children (Norman Williams Library, Saturday, August 1, 2009, 10 am)
- Bookmaking workshops for children and adults with Edie Crocker and Susan Bonthron (Woodstock Elementary School, Saturday, August 1, 2009, 11am & 3:30pm)
- Lecture/panel discussion on the graphic novel presented by the Center for Cartoon Studies (Woodstock Elementary School, Saturday, August 1, 2009, 11am)
- Meet & greet/book signing with Reeve Lindbergh (Yankee Bookshop, Saturday, August 1, 2009, Noon)
- Writing and illustration workshop for young writers with Anna Dewdney (Woodstock Elementary School, Saturday, August 1, 2009, 1:30pm)
- Poetry workshop and all-ages poetry slam coordinated by Geof Hewitt (Norman Williams Library, Saturday, August 1, 2009, 1:30pm)
- Master class with restaurateur/culinary writer Deirdre Heekin (Unitarian Universalist Church, Saturday, August 1, 2009, 1:30pm)
- Clowning workshop for ages 10 & older (Norman Williams Library, Saturday, August 1, 2009, 1:30pm)
- Readings with authors Bruce Coffin, Peter Fox Smith and Joseph Olshan (Woodstock History Center, Saturday, August 1, 2009, 1:30pm)
- Poetry reading featuring former Vermont State Poet Ellen Bryant Voigt (Norman Williams Library, Saturday, August 1, 2009, 3pm)
- Literary Scavenger Hunt (Norman Williams Library Children's Room, Saturday, August 1, 2009, 3:30pm)
- Literary film mini-festival at Town Hall Theatre (Saturday, August 1, 2009, 7:30pm)
- Readings and book signings by Vermont authors Madeline Kunin, Beth Kannell, Castle Freeman (Ongoing at Norman Williams Library and the Elementary School, Saturday, August 1, 2009)
- Writers' Salon (Woodstock Inn, Saturday, August 1, 2009, 9:30pm)
Bookstock is created and orchestrated by a partnership of five local nonprofits: the North Universalist Chapel Society, Norman Williams Public Library, Pentangle Arts Council, Woodstock Historical Society, and the Thompson Senior Center Center--each of whom are donating time, expertise and resources to ensure the success of the Festival's planning and implementation.
Conceived in recognition of the region's rich literary endowment of gifted writers and avid readers, Bookstock is endorsed by Woodstock's three independent bookstores. Bookstock will also serve as a showcase for regional publishers. Numerous local presses and literature-related organizations--including Harbor Mountain Press, Tupelo Press, Thistle Hill, Nomad Communications, University Press of New England, Center for Cartoon Studies, Countryman Press, and the Children's Literacy Foundation--will participate as exhibitors.
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