Hello all,
As we move into March, and Spring, I wanted to share the latest on our flagship events, the Cirque du Livre Writer's Conference, Roadside Book Festival and the Mesa Book Festival. Safety continues to be the first priority, and we remain cautiously optimistic.
Hello-
I thought it would be appropriate to share some updates on Anthology's 2021 plans. The pandemic has had a huge impact on our plans for obvious reasons, but we are far from silent. The pandemic, for all of it's challenges, has forced us to slow down and reassess what we are doing and how we are doing it. So, 2021 will be filled with alot of organization building to set the stage for 2022 and beyond.
Events
There will not be a 2021 Cirque du Livre Writer's Conference. We'll look at 2022 this coming summer.
We have tentative dates for Roadside Book Festival (September) and Mesa Book Festival (December). Right now, we will continue pre-planning for both, with a keen eye towards the progress in combating the pandemic. March and April will be key months for determining the feasability of those events.
Copper State Poetry Slam
There were plans to resusitate this event, but the pandemic derailed those for 2020. We will look to 2021 to reorganize and relaunch that event.
Arizona Book Coalition
We are continuing work on the Arizona Book Coalition site. It is still very much in beta and we flesh out the social aspects and forumulate a plan for the future. Antholgy has created a special page for updates regarding the organization's response to the pandemic.
Arts Giving Day
Needed more than ever, we will carry forward with ArtsGivingDay 2021, with new images and updated verbiage by the end of January.
AZPoetryPedia
AZ PoetryPedia will carry forward as we continue to look to add librarians to continue adding tot he rescrource.
In Summary-
Stay tuned to the Anthology and ABC websites, as they will be wherev most of our information is shared to as it develops. As always, thank you for your support of Anthology.
- Bob Nelson, Executive Director, Anthology, Inc.
Organized by Anthology, Inc., a Mesa, AZ, based literary non profit organization, the Mesa Book Festival is the annual event to showcase the literary arts in the East Valley. The event was founded in 2017 and has grown is size each year, with over 2,500 patrons visiting in 2018.
At the center of the event are 100+ authors, small presses and other publishers across all genres sharing their works. A full day of interactive panels, presentations and performances delivers a fun filled and entertaining experience for book lovers of all ages.
Your direct donation to the festival supports:
- Keeping our costs to vendors, the vast majority are independent authors, as low as possible.
- Affording us the opportunity to provide world class programming, including speakers, guests and others
- Promoting the festival and allowing more people to plan their own attendance to this free event.
- So much more . . .
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A fundraising event in partnership with Great Spirit Animal Sanctuary, this unique format book festival literally on the side of the road in Taylor, Arizona is a great way for authors to share their works with new audiences in Northeast Arizona.
The event is free and open to the public, with indoor and outdoor vendors, access to many of the animals currently being cared for by the Sanctuary and day long learning sessions about how you can help neglected and abused animals a thing of the past.
Your Direct donation to the festival supports:
- Keeping our costs to vendors, the vast majority are independent authors, as low as possible.
- Affording us the opportunity to provide world class programming, including speakers, guests and others
- Promoting the festival and allowing more people to plan their own attendance to this free event.
- So much more . . .
Arts Giving Day was created a s a way to draw attention to those that create art in any form, and allowing those individuals and organiations to ask for your support. It's simple, it's focused, and it can be powerful because of you.
Your contribution to the ArtsGivingDay.org effort provides money to:
- Directly promote the next upcoming ArtsGiving Day, the third Tuesday in May
- Improve and enhance our website designed to showcase the many arts participants and organizations that make art nd deserve support
- Grow ArtsGiving Day into a global effort promoting the value of the arts to humanity
If you are a writer at any level, this is a great weekend of learning, collaboration and professionals growth.
In 2016, the staff of Brick Cave Media, an Arizona based publishing company, started a writers conference with the intent of fostering a vibrant and active community of writers in the greater Phoenix area.
They thought if they built an innovative event that felt more like an experience than a traditional conference, that people would be more engaged. They also knew that with a fairly nascent writing community, an event that was formed specifically for them would go a long way to grow and support that creative demographic. Designed to both be affordable and to showcase a talented roster of local writers that had a tremendous amount of knowledge to share, the Conference was born.
And it was a hit.
They repeated the event in 2017, and again found a thirst for learning to strengthen one’s writing ability. For 2018, the founders of the festival have turned the event over to their sister organization non profit, Anthology, inc. to allow the event to continue to grow.