FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19 | 7:00 – 9:00 PM
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Music Hall at Fair Park |
The Dallas Festival of Ideas unveils the City Tracks with big ideas from national keynote speakers, Russell Simmons for The Entrepreneurial City, Sarah Prevette for The Educated City, Dr. Jennifer Gardy for The Healthy City, Alma Guillermoprieto for The Literary City, and Nikil Saval for The Physical City.
Interpretive performances featuring music by Jason Davis and his Quartet, and So So Topic with a visual collaboration from typographer Peter Wood; film by Andrew Holzschuh; and dance with Kimi Nikaidoh, Artistic Director of the Bruce Wood Dance Project.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20
SATURDAY | 10:00 – 10:30 AM
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Festival Headquarters
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All aspiring writers, this session is for you. Do you dream of writing your own book? Have you written a book, but haven’t had much luck in getting it noticed?
Literary agent David Hale Smith and novelist and director of The Writer’s Path J. Suzanne Frank will give insight and advice on what they look for in a writer of the future
In partnership with the Wild Detectives
SATURDAY | 12:00 – 12:45 PM
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Festival Headquarters
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Using imagination to help middle and high school students master the art of the spoken word
In partnership with DaVerse Lounge, Journeyman Ink, and Big Thought
SATURDAY | 1:00 – 1:30 PM
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Festival Headquarters
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Maggie Mitchell will introduce and recite an excerpt of her literary thriller which garnered reviews from The New York Times as a “stunning, multilayered debut.”
In partnership with the Wild Detectives
SATURDAY | 3:00 – 3:45 PM
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Festival Headquarters
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Moderator: Dr. Zannie Voss (Chair and Professor of Arts Management and Arts Entrepreneurship, SMU)
Panelists: Joshua King (Aurora); Kimi Nikaidoh (Bruce Wood Dance Project); So-So Topic (Musician); Will Richey (Journeyman Ink)
SATURDAY | 4:00 – 5:15 PM
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Main Stage
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How can literature in its various forms shape and define a city? How can a city write its own story and discover or create the elements aimed toward shaping its next chapter? What are barriers to participating in a literary culture? How do we expand interest in the literary arts, possibly through a literary arts festival?
Moderator: Lauren Smart (Arts and Culture Editor, Dallas Observer)
Panelists: Alma Guillermoprieto (MacArthur Fellow, Author); Dr. Darryl Dickson Carr (Chair of English, SMU); Lisa Hembry (President & CEO of LIFT); Merritt Tierce (Author); Chris Vognar (Culture Critic, The Dallas Morning News)
Festival Headquarters
Women’s Museum Literary Stage
10:00AM – Getting your book from the pile to the publisher. How to get noticed? Literary agent David Hale Smith and writer J. Suzanne Frank will give insight and advice on what they look for in a writer of the future (in partnership with the Wild Detectives)
11:00AM – A Reading with Sanderia Faye (Mourner’s Bench)
Sanderia Faye, author of Mourner’s Bench, will share an excerpt of her latest book and take questions from the audience.
12:00PM – Spelling Bee competition (in partnership with Reading Partners)
1:00PM – A Reading and Conversation with author Maggie Mitchell (in partnership with the Wild Detectives)
2:00PM – Bryan Adams High School Story Workshop
A high school creative writing program committed to raw, carefully rendered fearlessness on the page and the beauty of individual voice. The Bryan Adams Story Workshop is here to cultivate and cast as much light as possible on the creative genius of teenage writers
3:00PM – Bario Poems with Joaquin Zihuatanejo
A dialogue in poetry where love and loss, strife and joy, fight and flight all intermingle with the barrio of the lower east side of Dallas, Texas as the backdrop to it all.
4:00PM – Best of Oral Fixation
A curated set of three stories from the Oral Fixation storytelling archives, presented live on the Literary Stage.