Booksellers and bookworms have Sunday, June 10th circled in red on their calendars to mark the upcoming Hillcrest Book & Literacy Fair. This exciting HBIA event for readers young and old will take place in the heart of Hillcrest from 10am-5pm. Southern California booksellers are getting their best offerings ready for hungry readers to browse, select and buy. We hope you can join us.
The bookfair will open with a Scottish bagpiper (which should get the community’s attention!). At 10:30am the San Diego Woman’s Chorus will open the “San Diego Reads” stage in the Washington Mutual Bank parking lot (on the corner of Fifth and Robinson) followed by storytellers from the Kumeyaay Nation.
The Fair is proud to present Resilience Of The Spirit from Hillcrest’s own Sixth@Penn theatre featuring children’s drama directed by Leigh Scaritt and UCSD’s Professor Marianne McDonald with award-winning author and poet Gayle Brandeis. “San Diego Reads” will feature local personalities including City Attorney Mike Aguirre and Councilmember Toni Atkins reading from their favorite books as well as local Hispanic playwright Erika Perez presenting Sonia Nazario’s Pulitzer Prize winning Enrique’s Journey, which was featured in SD Public Library’s-KPBS remarkable community reading event “One Book, One San Diego.”
Local authors will include poets from the newly published San Diego Poetry Anthology and Amy Wallen’s comic novel Moon Pies and Movie Stars which made the LA Times best seller list. Lt. Col. Jay Kopelman will tell of Lava, the pup rescued from Falluja streets in From Baghdad with Love.
The afternoon will feature the SD Men’s Chorus and stories of neighborhood history as we celebrate Hillcrest’s 100th anniversary. For more information about this year’s bookfair contact organizer Cecelia Moreno at (619) 253-3403.
