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new festival called deep carnivale:a celebration of words on september 8

There’s a new family-friendly festival in the Tampa Bay area. Deep Carnivale:A Celebration of Words is scheduled for Saturday, September 8, on 14th Street and Palm Avenue in Ybor City from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Presented by the Artists and Writers Group, Inc. and Hillsborough Community College-Ybor, Deep Carnivale is free and open to the public.

According to the press release, “This event will be a celebration of literature and writing in its many wonderful and diverse forms. The goal is to excite our community about the joys of literature, with a special focus directed toward our younger generations of children and young adults about the pleasure of listening, learning and using the written and spoken word creatively.

There will be three sound stages for readings, spoken word, original singer/songwriter performances and small theatrical performances. Areas of arts and writing activities for children and adults of all ages will add to the celebratory quality of the day. There will be visual arts components, such as the Books As Art exhibition, and the 20 arches of El Pasaje building transformed into pages by twenty artists and writers and based on an art concept from the 1920s called the Exquisite Corpse.

Thirty vendors or so will sell books and related literature. Numerous community organizations will provide information on their activities. Coupled with interesting decorations, live music and a wide variety of scheduled readings and performances that will appeal from the youngest to the most sophisticated, this inaugural event will be well on its way to becoming a flagship event for Ybor City.”

The schedule, names and bios of attending authors and more details on events will be announced soon. For more info, email David Audet at daudet(at)hccfl.edu or visit www.deepcarnivale.com.

I’m on the Deep Carnivale planning committee. If you are interested in buying space for a vendor table or an ad in the program, please email me at tampafilmfan(at)aol.com and I’ll send you the details. Hope to see you there.

(cross-posted at www.sticksoffire.com)