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See the Chair at the Central Coast Book & Author Festival!

Look for poet Kevin Patrick Sullivan and the Reading in Public Chair at the 9th Central Coast Book and Author Festival!


 Kevin Patrick Sullivan will be sharing his poetry and if you persuade him, reading from the Chair!

Go say hello and sit and read in the chair.
(We will have a camera in the ottoman - so be sure to snap your photo!)

9th Central Coast Book and Author Festival
Sunday, October 4, 2009
10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
San Luis Obispo, CA - Downtown, Mission Plaza
http://www.ccbookfestival.org/

L I B R A R Y !

We are busy with our next art intervention:

Library! an extension of readinginpublic.com .

Library! is a re-purposed newspaper rack converted into a traveling serendipitous book exchange, of sorts. More like a culture exchange. You may find a well worn paperback, a hardcover thriller, an artists' sketchbook, or an actual piece of art.

A venue for creative readers who care that reading is not a lost art.

Each lending piece will have a bookplate documenting its travels and borrower information. Borrowers are encouraged to leave an item for lending too.

Library! will be placed downtown San Luis Obispo starting in October. Look for it soon at Steynberg Gallery. http://www.steynberggallery.com/

Contribute
We are looking for booksters who would like to donate a lending item to the collection. Please complete the form below if you:

  • Want to donate an item

or/and

  • Want to be added to our mailing list

Link to our Form: http://tinyurl.com/yehcuj3

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New Times SLO Fall Arts Issue

Click here to download:
AA Cover.pdf (2.76 MB)
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You're either with us or you're with them
An experiment in art goes seriously awry

By Ashley Schwellenbach

Only recruit the county’s most talented artists—those bored by landscapes, uninspired by the mundane, eager to liberate art from the customary shackles of stage and gallery. I began by sending a barrage of e-mails to anyone I thought might fit the bill.
More: http://www.newtimesslo.com/special-issue/22/autumn-arts-09/

The Reading Chair in New Times SLO

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The concluding chapter of this summer's activities (or the beginning of a new one?)
http://www.newtimesslo.com/special-issue/22/autumn-arts-09/

Read more:
The chair and its designer, Chris Allen
http://thereadinginpublicproject.blogspot.com/2009/07/and-now-chair.html

Images of people all over the world reading in public
http://www.flickr.com/photos/readinginpublic/

And a teaser posted below for project #2.

Library! Or,

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a teaser for Reading In Public project #2. We just got our stickers back from Frank at Linson Signs (hi, Frank!). Library! will be an honor system (take a book and leave one in its place) book exchange of sorts (Catherine insists it's more of a culture exchange) where each book will have a bookplate documenting its travels. Library! itself will start its journey at Steynberg Gallery on Monterey.
Due any day now...

http://www.readinginpublic.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/readinginpublic/
http://twitter.com/readinginpublic

We need your Ideas

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We need a NAME.

a Name of an unusual lending Library of sorts.

Library that is outdoors or in public spaces.
Library that is smallish in nature. (3.5ft x 2.5ft)
Library that is portable so to speak.

WHAT would you name it?

Here are some ideas we have so far. Tell us what you think and/or tell us your suggestions.
email us @
info@readinginpublic.com

  • Library Walk-up
  • Plein air Library
  • Library Nook
  • Side Street Library
  • Curb Appeal Library
  • Curbed Library
  • Curbside library
  • Pressing Issues
  • Public Paperback Rack
  • SLO Reads
  • BiblioRack
  • Impromptu Library
  • Library Brouhaha
  • Book! Book!

Image courtesy of http://www.lapl.org/

UPDATE: Your Ideas (Way to go Booksters!)

http://twitter.com/jesteram

  • @ReadingInPublic How about: Portable Books or Passing Pages or the Out and About Library or the Pocket Library or Books on the Block?

Others:

  • Roadside Library
  • Book stand