Church St. Stores (and Sage!) Join in Decatur Book Festival Events
Decatur Metro | August 21, 2008A whole smorgasbord of Decatur shops will be hosting book-related events during this year’s Decatur Book Festival over Labor Day Weekend (August 29th-31st).
Here’s the store events rundown from the latest of many recent DBF press releases…
At 3 p.m. on Saturday, Mingei World Arts at 427 Church Street is bringing Daryn Kagan, former CNN news anchor and creator of darynkagan.com, an award-winning website that offers hopeful and inspirational news, for a signing of her new book, “What’s Possible! 50 True Stories of People Who Dared to Dream They Could Make a Difference,” available at Mingei.
Sharon Franco Rothschild, owner of the Decatur boutique and knitting studio Two Stix (411 Church St.) will debut her new book, “Sweater Renewal: Felting Knits into New Sweaters and Accessories,” just ten days before DBF, and will give demonstrations at her store during the festival.
Southern Cooking Favorite Delia Champion will be stopping by Taste at 416 Church Street on Saturday at 2 p.m. Best known as the founder of The Flying Biscuit Cafe, Champion will be bringing biscuits and discussing southern cooking, along with signing copies of her book, “The Flying Biscuit Café Cookbook.”
Sage is hosting the Atlanta Writer’s Club for a Sunday brunch with DBF authors. A special three-course menu selected by the chef will be available for this event. The entree includes a choice of Sage’s Benedict mignon, mascarpone-stuffed French toast, or their delicious blackened tilapia.
Incidentally, the DBF also wants you to know that our book festival is now the largest INDEPENDENT book festival in the entire country. Take that all you big city, parent-company book festival sell-outs!
Here’s a list of all the independent book shops that will be participating in the festival…”A Cappella Books, Blue Elephant Books, Bound to be Read Books, Charis Books & More, Eagle Eye Book Shop, Little Shop of Stories, Outwrite Bookstore and Coffeehouse, and Wordsmiths Books.”
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Mingei will be somewhat of a circus during the Book Festival– in a good way! Besides the event with Daryn Kagan on Saturday, there will be a number of other things going on.
Like books and folk art? I just got back from Mexico, where the library we raised money for in the carving village of La Union was opened. I brought back more folk art figures of readers by the carvers of this village, La Union, which we will be exhibiting and selling. 20% of the sales of those will go to support the library. They really are wonderful and a number of carvers whose work was not available for our July 29th fundraising event will now be on view– and for sale!
Want another cause, or a new T? This weekend Mingei will debut a new line of T-shirts, Dialogue, which benefit CARE and the Enough Foundation. Each shirt features a fact about a global issue of concern and has a mini-CD attached which explains the issue and provides info on how to be involved. A portion of sales go to benefit the NGO’s involved.
At 11:30 on Saturday morning, Elizabeth Dulemba , illustrator of the charming children’s book Paco and the Giant Chile will be demonstrating her drawing.
At noon on Sunday, come by and chill and check out a new Mandala Coloring book at Mingei– a meditative artful experience for adults which might be quite welcome by this time during a very busy weekend.
This Festival is a great boon to local merchants. Thanks to Daren Wang and his crew for being so open to letting local businesses participate!