#baybookfest

[codyvrosh]

Bay Area Book Festival! So excited. Our booth setup is on Milvia, by the park, #211. I love books and hanging out in Berkeley, so it should be a pretty amazing weekend. Come check it out.

[sistahscifi]

📚 Bay Area Book Festival is happening this weekend and Sistah Scifi Siblings need to be there. Four panels. Four days. All at The Freight in Berkeley, CA. Here's what's on:

✨ Building Worlds, Building Power @nnediokorafor + @people.power.change in conversation, moderated by @walidahimarisha. Fri, May 29 @ 6PM

✨ Publishing the Future @hannahmoushabeck, @cynthialeitichsmith, @drkategale + @dopequeenpheebs on what's next for books and who's telling the stories. Sat, May 30 @ 5:30PM

✨ Black Feminist Futurescaping @alexispauline and @susiemaye in a conversation moderated by none other than Sistah Scifi's own @isisasare. Sun, May 31 @ 7:30PM

✨ What Haunts Us Still: Surviving and Storytelling @stephengrahamjones + @tananarivedue on horror, survival, and the stories that carry us. Sun, May 31 @ 5:30PM

All panels are ticketed at $20 general admission. 👉🏾 Grab your tickets at baybookfest.org 📍 The Freight, 2020 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA

[robtrujilloart]

Hey, if you're around the Bay come check me out at the 5TH ANNUAL Bay Area Book Fest. I'll be hanging out in the Author's Pavillion on both days. There are some great authors, publishers, and speakers there such as Nidhi Chanani, Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez, Laura Atkins, Oliver Chin, Zoraida Córdova, Aya De Leon, Tongo Eisen Martin, Dani Gabriel, Justina Ireland, Ajuan Mance, Cherríe Moraga, Rebecca Roanhorse, Aida Salazar, Juliana Jewels Smith, Bryant Terry, Jose Antonio Vargas. 

Speaking of which you can catch folks like Innosanto Nagara, Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez, Bryant Terry, and Laura Atkins speaking on panels. Here's the schedule. There are also many story times for the kids and a children & family area. I'm excited, see y'all there!! Its free to come thru.

Follow the Festival:

Twitter: twitter.com/BayBookFest

Facebook: facebook.com/baybookfest

Instagram: instagram.com/baybookfest

[haymarketbooks]

We’re here at #baybookfest! Booth 123, come thru!

[playchoices]

Pixelberry at the Bay Area Book Festival! ✨

Want to meet the writers behind Choices? Stop by the Pixelberry booth at the Bay Area Book Festival in downtown Berkeley this weekend! 

WHO: Meet the writers behind The Freshman, It Lives in the Woods, Perfect Match, and other Choices books, plus writers from High School Story and Hollywood U 

WHAT: Chat with writers, grab swag (while supplies last!), and snap Choices themed pics! Learn more about the festival at baybookfest.org 

WHEN: April 28 & 29, 11:00am - 6:00pm

WHERE: The Pixelberry booth at the Bay Area Book Festival in downtown Berkeley, California in the MLK Jr. Civic Center Park area

Hope to see you there! Can't make it? Head on over to our Instagram for live updates throughout the weekend!

[puddingstonepublishing-blog]

Fourth Annual Bay Area Book Festival April 28-29, 2018

[blogkatrose]

Masha Gessen at the Bay Area Book Festival

[bayareabookfest-blog]

Galvanizing the Resistance via Literature:

Third Annual Bay Area Book Festival, June 3-4, 2017

The Bay Area Book Festival in Berkeley (www.baybookfest.org) is sharpening its mission to focus on literary activism in response to the rise of intolerance and injustice in this country and worldwide. Courageous, insightful, intelligent literary work is an essential tool for resisting these forces. The weekend event—June 3-4, 2017—will gather writers and readers who are committed to tolerance, sanctuary, justice, equality, environmental sustainability, diversity and inclusion—our bedrock values. There is no better place than Berkeley, renowned for its intellectual activism, for an event that highlights literature as a vehicle for social change. 

At only three years old, the Bay Area Book Festival has become one of the country’s leading literary events, bringing together tens of thousands of readers with hundreds of the world’s most respected writers for in-person literary exploration and celebration. We have always emphasized writers and books concerned with social justice, diversity and the environment. We now are raising our sign higher in the public square as we explore and amplify the literary voice of resistance.

Great literature is never didactic, but it is inherently activist. Autocrats are threatened not only by what great books say but by the literary form itself. Whether non-fiction, fiction, or poetry, literature allows remarkable access into the subtle lived experience and perspectives of other people and cultures. Literature shapes the most potent and elusive power that humankind has: hearts and minds.

When hearts and minds are mobilized, watch out—as we saw with the public response to The Jungle, Silent Spring, Hiroshima, The Feminine Mystique, The Invisible Man, and thousands of other world-changing books. Legend has it that Lincoln said to Harriet Beecher Stowe upon meeting the diminutive author, “So you’re the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war.”

Great literature respects the intelligence and agency of its readers. It does not use its power for manipulation, which is cynical. Great literature is hopeful. By asking to be read, it assumes human potential. Picking up a book means opening oneself to change. Reading a book (and especially writing one) means believing in the possibility of this change. These changes may be explicit and social, or subtle and intensely private, but they are progressive—as it is defined politically—in being humanist.

Books authorize (literally) voices to be heard, which is why the Bay Area Book Festival places a high priority on writers who come from oppressed communities. We especially emphasize women writers. The Bay Area Book Festival was founded by a woman and is largely led by women.

Statement written by Cherilyn Parsons, founder and executive director. The Bay Area Book Festival is the main project of the Foundation for the Future of Literature and Literacy, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded for the purpose of the Festival. We do not carry out advocacy but have an educational mission to present a public event that promotes literature and literacy.