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The Great Michigan Read Grants

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

May 15-18, 2008
Michigan Notable Books at the Ann Arbor Book Festival, Ann Arbor

May 15-18, 2008
The Adapted Nick Adams (The Great Michigan Read) at the Ann Arbor Book Festival, Ann Arbor

May 15-18, 2008
Ann Arbor Book Festival, Ann Arbor.

Ann Arbor Book Festival 2008 -- (2007)

Grant Awarded: November 2007

Type of Grant: We the People/The Great Michigan Read

Sponsors: Ann Arbor Book Festival

Contact: Kathleen Robenalt, 734-369-3366, wroben3357@aool.com

Website: www.aabookfestival.org

Award: $7,500

This is the fourth year of the Ann Arbor Book Festival, sponsored by the Michigan Humanities Council (MHC) in 2005, 2006, and 2007. The festival includes numerous programming venues in which the Council has participated for the last four years. This four-day event celebrates reading, writing, and literacy in the community and state. The traveling Hemingway exhibit will be part of the programming (displayed on U of M’s campus) during the 2008 Ann Arbor Book Festival with tentative plans to include a reception centered around the exhibit. Author visits, creative and expository writing, children’s works, a writer’s conference, panel discussions, a bookstore crawl/scavenger hunt, author reception, and writing contests are some of the activities. Author home tours are the one new element proposed for 2008. Attendees would pay a small fee to travel with a local historian to former homes of authors that lived in the Ann Arbor area. The book festival will also host two other MHC-sponsored projects: the performance of the play, "The Adapted Nick Adams," and Michigan Notable Books.