Deep Carnivale
- When
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10am to 5pm
Saturday, Sept. 27, 2008 - Where
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The Cuban Club and along 14th Street, between Palm Avenue and 9th Avenue
Ybor City
Tampa Florida
(map) - What
- Readings by authors and poets, songs sung by songwriters, child-friendly performances, games, activites, food and non-alcoholic beverages
- Who
- Children and families, teens, adults and tribal elders
- Admission
- Most events and presentations are free; some workshops require a fee
- More Information
- Contact Festival Director David Audet at daudet@hccfl.edu
Vendor Tables
Are you an author or performer, a publisher or book store, or involved in a literary business in some other way?
A small number of vendor tables will be available for you to display books, CDs, and other products of interest to people
attending this family friendly outdoor and indoor event. Tables are $50 for the day.
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Deep Carnivale - A Celebration of Words
DEEP CARNIVALE: A CELEBRATION OF WORDS, Tampa's premier literature festival, presents more than seventy authors, poets, songwriters and artists on six stages located along 14th Street and Palm Avenue in historic Ybor City. Stages are centered in the outdoor HCC courtyard, on campus and throughout the four floors of the Cuban Club.
Numerous book and publishing vendors, book-signings, writers associations and community organizations, refreshments, food, street theater and live music will add ambience to the festival along the beautiful tree-lined, red-bricked 14th Street.
Organized by The Artists and Writers Group, Inc., this is the second year of a celebration that brings artists representing a diverse range of writing styles, ages, experience, and cultural backgrounds together to share their love of literature and related art forms with the Tampa Bay community.
Children's Future Hillsborough and HCC faculty and students promise lots of fun and games for children ages 2 to 12 with a wide array of supervised reading and arts activities to enjoy in the large HCC Ybor Room located right in the middle of the festival.
There will be six stages (one outdoors) for readings and live music. The schedule is currently under construction and will be announced very soon.
A new addition this year is the use of all four floors of the historic Cuban Club, including the theater, located across 14th Street from HCC. Staged readings of new plays will be presented, including Lord In Heaven by Ronny Elliott, and The Agreeable Husband by Shana Perkins and Ami Sallee Corley. HCC professor Cheryl Borman and HCC students will also present a series of short plays on the Cuban Club stage.
A special thanks to HCC-Ybor and campus president, Dr. Shaun Robinson. Our gratitude extends to our sponsors, Ybor City Development Corporation, the Hillsborough County Public Library Cooperative, Children's Future Hillsborough, Cigar City Magazine, Creative Loafing, BAAMO, Grown Man Brand and the Cuban Club.
The purpose of the Artists and Writers Group is to develop and nurture cultural events that contribute a positive and meaningful experience to our community.
Festival goals:
- Illuminate the numerous talented writers living in our community.
- Provide a new opportunity to emerging authors to develop their audience.
- Share with our children and young adults the pleasures of reading and using the written and spoken word creatively in its many wonderful and diverse forms.
Authors, poets:
Gary Bass (humor), Robert Bester, Lisa Birnbaum (fiction), Sally Bosco (young adult horror), Karen Brown (Short stories), John Capouya (Georgeous George-biography), Audrey Colombe (fiction), Charles “Candyman” Coney (poet), Ami Sallee Corley (director-staged readings), Matthew Cowley (humor), Jerry Cowling (supernatural fiction), Silvia Curbelo (poet), Roger Chamieh, Michael Darling (science fiction), Lara Diamond (Man Overboard), David Durney (poet), Susan Edwards (editor-publisher), Ronny Elliott (Lord In Heaven-new play), Melissa Fair (poet), Elena Feijoo, Dominick Granados, Burt Gunthner (poet), April Gutierrez (Malicious Truth), Paul Guzzo (Journalist, memoir on Dick Greco), Lynne Hansen (young adult historical horror), Lisa Harasiuk, Darrell House (children’s stories), Richard J (spoken word poet), Brittany Jae, Bob Devin Jones (essays-plays), Venus Jones (poet), Kylie Lance, Anthony Lombardy (poet), Lori Karpay (poet), Zoe LaPage (paranormal romance), Magali Naas (French fiction), Mary C. Madden (fiction), Denise Mahaffey, Laura Mendes, Don Morrill (non-fiction), K.L. Nappier (science fiction), Rhonda J. Nelson (Irritable Tribe of Poets), Susan Ohara, James Reese (The Dracula Dossier-thriller), Carol Ringold (fiction), Laura Rodriguez, Gianna Russo (Yellow Jacket Press, poet), Enid Shomer (The Tourist Season-fiction), George Skrapits, Tyler Smith, Moe St. Evergreen (spoken word poet), Lizz Straight (Poetry Is), Jeff Strand (comedy horror), Will Stryffeler, James Tokley, Sr. (Tampa Poet Laureate), Wayne Totin (poet), Megan Voeller (fiction, journalist), Valerie Washington (poet), Dave Waterman (humor), Alex Watson, Thelma Young (children’s stories, essays)
Singer/songwriters (Original-Americana):
Stephanie Carpenter, Maggie Council, Ronny Elliott, Harry Hayward, Darrell House, Christie Lenee, John McEwen, Chip Neville, George Pappas, Rebecca Puly, Rofo, Judy Tampa, Tim Walker, Bunko Squad, Juniper, Next Exit.
Artists:
Bradley Arthur, David Audet, Doreen Horn, Lisa Harasiuk, Eric Lawson, Charlotte Lee, Elio Lopez, Carolyn Kossar, Laura Mendez, Tracy Midulla-Reller, Christopher Weeks.
Deep Carnivale Pre-Party and Author's Reception
You Are Invited to a Pre-Festival Party and Authors Reception at the Cuban Club.
When: 6-9 pm Wednesday
September 24, 2008
Where: Cuban Club (Palm Avenue and 14th Street, Ybor City)
Attire: Evening casual
Admission Free
The Artists and Writers Group invites you to meet many of the authors, poets and artists participating in Tampa’s premier literary festival, Deep Carnivale. Light refreshments will be served.
Featured New Works
Authors reading from their newly published books include Karen Brown (Pins and Needles: Stories), John Capouya (Gorgeous George: The Outrageous Bad Boy Who Created American Pop Culture-biography), Lara Diamond (Man Overboard-about D.P. Davis of Davis Island fame), April Gutierrez (Malicious Truth-romance), Zoe LaPage (Shadow Cat-paranormal romance), James Reese (The Dracula Dossier-pub Oct 7), Enid Shomer (Tourist Season-collection of short fiction), Jeff Strand (Suckers-comedy horror), Thelma Young (All You Could See Was the Water: Hurricane Katrina through the Eyes of Children), among others.
Karen Brown
Selected Short Stories - Karen Brown’s stories have appeared in The Best American Short Stories, and The O. Henry Prize Stories, among other publications. Her first book, Pins and Needles: Stories, won AWP's Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction. She teaches at the University of South Florida, in Tampa. Karen received her PhD last May in Literature.
John Copouya
Gorgeous George: The Outrageous Bad-Boy Wrestler Who Created American Pop Culture - John Copouya's book on Gorgeous George, the flamboyant wrestling showman of the 1940s and 50s, was published September 2, 2008. It has received good reviews, including articles in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post. It was featured in September in Esquire's "Highlights From Our Bookshelf".
James Reese
The Dracula Dossier - James Reese recreated the "lost" journal of Bram Stoker in which he recounts his run-in with Jack the Ripper, an event which led him to write Dracula a few years later. In Reese's imagined thriller, Bram Stoker attends an indoctrination ceremony of the Order of the Golden Dawn, at the behest of Oscar Wilde's mum and a young William Butler Yeats. The ceremony goes horribly awry, resulting in one participant-Francis Tumblety, a patent medicine salesman newly arrived from America, becoming a vessel for the evil Egyptian god Set and applying his surgical skills to the slaughter of Whitechapel prostitutes.
Lara Diamond
Man Overboard Lara Diamond is the pen name of a Tampa-based writer, editor and professional smart aleck, among other things. (Her day job prohibits disclosure of her true identity.) She became intrigued with the fascinating history of Ybor City and the notorious characters of Land Boom Florida while researching a public television documentary many years ago and has been digging up odd bits of the area's past and present ever since. She loves wine, cigars and a certain jazz bass player who can be heard once in a while playing at her favorite place in all of Tampa: King Corona café and cigar emporium in Ybor City. www.manoverboard.us.