[Libri] FW: Museums10 presents Books Out Loud Oct. 11-14

Tue Oct 2 09:53:38 EDT 2007

Attached please find a press release and schedule of events as a PDF for the
upcoming Museums10-sponsored Books Out Loud weekend. The release is in text
format below.

Please call with questions.

Many thanks.
--
Tony Maroulis
Project Coordinator
Museums10
Art/Books/History
www.museums10.org
413.687.2757 p.
413.259.4366 f.
amaroulis at fivecolleges.edu

BookMarks: A Celebration of the Art of the Book
September 2007  January 2008
10 Great Museums  3 Big Weekends  Exhibitions and Programming by M10
Friends  and More!
For more information visit www.museums10.org

Museums10 Presents Books Out Loud Weekend Oct. 11  14
Readings by 23 Writers Over 4 Days Includes Richard Russo, Barry Moser,
Camilo Mejia
Poetic Science: Bookworks by Daniel E. Kelm Opens at Smith College Museum of
Art

October 1, 2007
Contact: Tony Maroulis
Project Coordinator
Museums10
413-687-2757
amaroulis at fivecolleges.edu

AMHERST, Mass.  Museums10 presents Books Out Loud, the second of its three
major programming weekends in the BookMarks: A Celebration of the Art of the
Book festival. Stacked with 22 events over four days at Museums, on
campuses, cultural venues, libraries, and bookstores, Books Out Loud runs
from October 11  14 and features readings by notable authors Richard Russo,
Andrea Barrett, Valerie Martin, writer and illustrator Barry Moser, and
more, plus a performance of Selected Shorts (a full schedule is attached).
Poetic Science: Bookworks by Daniel E. Kelm, a highlight of the
Museums10/BookMarks exhibition schedule also opens for a five-month run
during the weekend.

The weekend is sponsored by Museums10, the three-year-old partnership of
college and independent museums in the upper Pioneer Valley of Western
Massachusetts, facilitated by Five Colleges, Inc. Author readings have been
organized by ten independent bookstores in the region  now calling
themselves Bookstores10  who have participated in the planning for the
Books Out Loud weekend for nearly one year and are co-promoting the region¹s
cultural riches with the Museums10 partnership.

³We have been quite fortunate to have had the enthusiastic participation of
our area¹s independent booksellers,² states Nora Gerard, program director at
the National Yiddish Book Center, and museum co-chair of the Museums10
programming committee. ³When we embarked on the BookMarks project, it was
natural to ask for the participation of area bookstores. Their enthusiasm
for the project and the expertise in the field has created a wealth of
varied and engaging programming. From fiction to nonfiction, from children¹s
literature to art books, there is truly something for everyone throughout
the Books Out Loud weekend. Museums10 is indebted to Booksellers10 for their
hard work and dedication to the success of the project.²

Poetic Science: Bookworks by Daniel E. Kelm is the first solo exhibition in
New England focused on the work of the Easthampton-based artist and
bookbinder. Before settling into a career in the book arts, Kelm received
formal training in chemistry and taught at the University of Minnesota. Kelm
combines his knowledge of physical science and bookbinding with interests in
alchemy and philosophy to produce a unique body of sculptural and kinetic
bookworks. The exhibition features thirty works by the artist, and will be
accompanied by video and web-based publications that will allow viewers to
explore fully the role of movement in Kelm's work. A concurrent exhibition
of twenty of Kelm's design bindings, collaborations with some of the
country's best-known artists, writers, and publishers, will be featured in
the Book Arts Gallery on the third floor of Smith College's Neilson Library

Museums10 is funded by the Massachusetts Cultural Council¹s John and Abigail
Adams Grant Program, which recognizes projects that focus on cultural
economic development. Museums10¹s emphasis on cultural tourism is to help
boost museum attendance through its collective marketing and branding
efforts, but also to increase cultural tourism in the region and positively
influence the local economy,

Some highlights on each day of the Books Out Loud weekend:

* October 11  Women Writers Panel at Mount Holyoke College and a reading by
John Elder Robison at Food for Thought Books in Amherst

* October 12  Readings by Michael Korda and Barry Moser at Smith College; A
Lecture by Daniel E. Kelm

* October 13  Readings by and a discussion with Richard Russo, Andrea
Barrett, and Valerie Martin; Performance of Selected Shorts at the
Northampton Academy of Music

* October 14  Children¹s programs in the morning at National Yiddish Book
Center and The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art; Readings by Camilo
Mejia, Alice Rothchild, and Francisco Goldman at Mount Holyoke College.

Museums10 is a partnership of ten museums  Amherst College Museum of
Natural History, Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, Emily Dickinson Museum:
The Homestead & The Evergreens, Hampshire College Art Gallery, Mount Holyoke
College Art Museum, Smith College Museum of Art, University Gallery at the
University of Massachusetts-Amherst, The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book
Art, National Yiddish Book Center, and Historic Deerfield  in the Upper
Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts, facilitated by Five Colleges,
Incorporated, dedicated to promoting the cultural riches of the region.

Bookstores10 is an affiliation of ten independent bookstores in the Five
College Area. They are A Child¹s Garden, Booklink Booksellers, and Broadside
Bookshop in Northampton; Amherst Books, Jeffery Amherst Bookshop, Food For
Thought Books, The Eric Carle Museum Store, National Yiddish Book Center
Store; Odyssey Bookshop in South Hadley; and World Eye Bookshop in
Greenfield.

Museums10 and BookMarks: a Celebration of the Art of the Book is sponsored
by the generous support of the Massachusetts cultural council¹s John and
Abigail Adams arts Program, The Greater Springfield Convention and Visitors
Bureau, Veridian Village at Hampshire College, 88.5 FM  WFCR NPR News and
Music for Western New England, WGBY, Preview Magazine, Cross-Culture
Journeys, Coastal Outdoor Advertising, Marcus Printing, and Ruth and Spencer
Timm. For more information about Museums10 and BookMarks, go to
www.museums10.org <http://www.museums10.org> .

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