Columbia Jewish Book Festival — a Book Fest for Everyone!

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Columbia is not only a writers’ town, it’s a readers’ town, too. And Jasper is always delighted to hear of interesting and engaging literary events.

For example, The Columbia Jewish Book Festival coming up on Sunday, October 20th through the 25th. Award winning author Mary Glickman is this year’s featured presenter. The festival also features film screenings, workshops, and children’s activities and is open to all.

The Festival kicks off Sunday, October 20 with a screening of Shalom Sesame’s “Mitzvah on the Street” followed by a showing of a film adaptation of Mitch Albom’s novel “Have a Little Faith” at 3 pm.

Monday, October 21 features keynote speaker Mary Glickman at 8 pm. Mary is a South Carolina resident and her first novel, Home in the Morning, is in development for film by Jim Kohlberg, director of The Music Never Stopped (Sundance 2011). Her second novel, One More River, was a Finalist for the 2011 National Jewish Book Award in Fiction. She will be available to sign books after her talk.

A workshop about writing and publishing children’s books is scheduled for 7 pm on Tuesday, October 22. This workshop will be led by Elaine Schiller August and Ronit Elk, both published children’s authors. Participants are encouraged to bring their questions and any of their own manuscripts.

All events are free for JCC members; a donation of $5 is requested of non-members. The book marketplace is open to all. The Columbia Jewish book festival is supported by The Columbia Jewish Federation, The Jewish Cultural Arts Committee, The Kligman Fund for the Jewish Cultural Arts, the Katie & Irwin Kahn Jewish Community Center, and Thou Shalt Read.

Festival events will be held at The Katie & Irwin Kahn Jewish Community Center  at 306 Flora Drive, in Columbia. For more information go to www.jcccolumbia.org.

About Jasper

What Jasper Said is the blogging arm of Jasper – The Word on Columbia Arts, a new written-word oriented arts magazine that serves artists and arts lovers in the Columbia, SC area and its environs in four ways: Via Print Media – Jasper is a bi-monthly magazine, releasing in print six times per year in September, November, January, March, May & July, on the 15th of each month. Jasper covers the latest in theatre and dance, visual arts, literary arts, music, and film as well as arts events and happenings; Via Website – Jasper is an interactive website complete with a visual arts gallery, messages from Jasper, an arts events calendar that is updated several times daily, bite-sized stories on arts events, guest editorials, local music, dance & theatre videos, community surveys, and more; Via Blog – What Jasper Said -- you're reading this now -- is a daily blog featuring a rotating schedule of bloggers from the Jasper staff as well as guest bloggers from throughout the arts community; Via Twitter – Jasper Advises is a method of updating the arts community on arts events, as they happen, with more than a half dozen active tweeters who live, work, and play inside the arts community everyday ~ Jasper Advises keeps the arts community abreast of what not to miss, what is happening when it is happening, and where to be to experience it first hand.
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