Celebrate Reading is an annual event sponsored by the Hawaii Council for the Humanities, . In the past, it has attracted prominent guest authors like Orson Scott Card (Ender’s Game), Christopher Moore (Lamb, Fluke) and Markus Zusak (The Book Thief). Even more important to its mission is that it has attracted student participation from public schools around the state. The goal is to encourage readers and writers of all ages to get together and celebrate reading, writing and critical thinking. The events are free and open to the public. Come listen to award winning authors and talk story about books and reading.
Want to be a writer? Celebrate Reading is a fantastic opportunity to interact with successful authors!
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Date: April 19, 2012
Admission: Free and Open to the Public
Location: University of Hawaii at Manoa campus, Art Auditorium
Time: 5:30 p.m.
Gail Tsukiyama is the bestselling author of six novels, including Women of the Silk, The Samurai’s Garden, and The Street of a Thousand Blossoms. Her novels reflect both her Chinese and Japanese heritage, richly revealing cultures and histories filled with tradition and change, loss and renewal, and love and family. She has been the recipient of the Academy of American Poets Award and the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Literary Excellence. Her latest novel, A Hundred Flowers, will be out in August 2012.
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Big Island Celebrate Reading Festival General Information:
Date: April 21, 2012
Admission: Free and Open to all people grades 6 and up
Location: Hawaii Preparatory Academy
Hours: 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Guest Authors and Poets:
- Gail Tsukiyama, Women of the Silk, Street of a Thousand Blossoms
- Kate Elliott, Cold Magic, Cold Fire
- Sue Cowing, You Will Call Me Drog
- Mark Panek, Big Happiness
- Cathy Song, Picture Bride and School Figures
- Matthew Kaopio, Up Among the Stars
- Jon Osorio, Storyteller and MC
Celebrate Reading-Maui General Information:
Date: April 23, 2012
Admission: Free and Open to the Public
Location: University of Hawaiʽi, Maui College
Hours: 8:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.
Guest Authors and Poets:
- Patricia Wood, Lottery
- Wing Tek Lum, Expounding the Doubtful Points
- Chris McKinney, The Tattoo, Mililani Mauka
- Sue Cowing, You Will Call Me Drog
- Mark Panek, Big Happiness
- Gail Tsukiyama, Women of the Silk, Street of a Thousand Blossoms
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