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Boston Book Festival 2019

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12:00pm EDT

Kids' Keynote Dewitt Center GymKim Parker • Erin Entrada Kelly The Environment: Thinking into the Future Bolling School Committee RoomAndrew McAfee • Bina Venkataraman • Tatiana Schlossberg BBF Unbound: Creature Feature Roxbury Innovation Center Multipurpose RoomE.B. Bartels • Grace Talusan • Jessie Male • Matthew Gilbert • Sangamithra Iyer A Whole New World: Creating a Sense of Place in Fiction Dewitt Center Arts & Crafts RoomMitali Perkins Animate Your Cityscape! Bolling Municipal Building Lobby826 Boston Join the Search for Waldo Bolling Municipal Building Lobby

12:15pm EDT

Hear a Story, Meet a Friend Frugal BookstoreAngela Bonds

12:30pm EDT

Readings: Short Stories Dewitt Center ClassroomNakia Hill • Chaya Bhuvaneswar • Dariel Suarez • Mandeliene Smith • Massachusetts Center for the Book

12:45pm EDT

BBF Unbound: So You Think You Can Write a Picture Book? Roxbury Innovation Center ClassroomCarol Gordon Ekster • Joy Wieder • Nicole Tadgell • Susan Edwards Richmond

1:00pm EDT

Street Art Walking Tour Bolling Municipal Building LobbyCedric Douglas

1:30pm EDT

Graphic Novelize Your Life! Dewitt Center Arts & Crafts RoomJonathan Todd Sunday Story Time Roxbury Innovation Center Multipurpose RoomAngela Bonds • Oge Mora • Raúl Gonzalez • Gloria Respress-Churchwell • E.B. Goodale Back to the Land Bolling School Committee RoomGlynn Lloyd • Emmet Van Driesche • Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern • Leah Penniman Poetry Keynote: Reginald Dwayne Betts Dewitt Center GymNicco Mele • Reginald Dwayne Betts • Sumeya Aden

2:00pm EDT

BBF Unbound: A Home Is a Poem Frugal BookstoreAaron Devine • Alexa Koch • Anna Ross • Candelaria Silva-Collins • Lynn Drew • U-Meleni Mhlaba-Adebo YA: The Best-Laid Plans Dewitt Center ClassroomAkunna Eneh • Nandini Bajpai • Tami Charles • Eric Kester • Thanhha Lai

2:30pm EDT

Drumming Performance Bolling Municipal Building LobbyChibuzo Dunun The Stuff of Stars: Create Your Universe Workshop Roxbury Innovation Center ClassroomEkua Holmes

3:00pm EDT

Blues Men Roxbury Innovation Center Multipurpose RoomJosé Massó • Bill Banfield • Clifford Thompson Memoir: Origin Stories Bolling School Committee RoomCallie Crossley • Grace Talusan • Maureen Stanton • Sarah M. Broom • Mass Humanities YA/Speculative Fiction Keynote: Akwaeke Emezi Dewitt Center GymNicholl Montgomery • Akwaeke Emezi Poetry: Shifting the Canon Dudley CafeTatiana M.R. Johnson • Camonghne Felix • Lillian-Yvonne Bertram • Porsha Olayiwola

3:15pm EDT

Find Your Story, Draw Your Story Dewitt Center Arts & Crafts RoomRaúl Gonzalez

3:30pm EDT

BBF Unbound: You Are a Writer Frugal BookstoreLouise Miller Fiction: Immigration Dewitt Center ClassroomDanielle Legros Georges • Juliet Grames • Ruvanee Vilhauer Wee Wear the Crowns: Celebrating Black Identity and Experience Bolling Municipal Building LobbyWee the People

4:00pm EDT

How to Code a Rollercoaster Reading and Hands-on Workshop Roxbury Innovation Center ClassroomJosh Funk • South End Technology Center @ Tent City

4:30pm EDT

One City One Story Roxbury Innovation Center Multipurpose RoomAlicia Anstead • Ciera Burch • BookBub Romance Keynote: Jasmine Guillory Dewitt Center GymMeredith Goldstein • Jasmine Guillory Tiny World: Pins! Dewitt Center Arts & Crafts RoomKeith Zoo Cities: Change Is the Only Constant Bolling School Committee RoomLily Song • Carlo Rotella • Karilyn Crockett • Kevin Coval • Wagner Foundation