Deep Carnivale
- When
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10am to 6pm
Saturday Sept. 12 2009
1pm to 5pm
Sunday Sept. 13 2009 - Where
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The Performing Arts Building
Hillsborough Community College, Ybor Campus
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
- Free and open to the public
- More Information
- Contact Festival Director David Audet at daudet@hccfl.edu or 813-253-7000 x5179
Deep Carnivale Features Tribute to Tampa Author Susan Hussey
Designed by Kelly Young
DEEP CARNIVALE: A CELEBRATION OF WORDS, Tampa's premiere literature festival, takes place Saturday and Sunday, September 12-13, 2009 in Ybor City, the historic district of Tampa, Florida.
On Saturday from 10am to 6pm, dozens of authors, poets, songwriters and artists will present work on multiple stages in the Performing Arts Building of Hillsborough Community College, Ybor City Campus, at the corner of 14th Street and Palm Avenue. The Saturday event is free and open to the public.
On both Saturday and Sunday three stages will be programmed with readings, performances, and related events. Book art, installations and art exhibits will all be open to the public.
Deep Carnivale Highlights
Highlights of this year's Deep Carnivale include:
A special tribute to author, playwright and poet Susan Hussey will end Saturday's programming and will be held at 5pm - 6pm on the Mainstage of the HCC-Ybor Performing Arts Building.
The festival's keynote speaker will be John Leland of the New York Times. Mr. Leland is the author of "Why Kerouac Matters" and "Hip: The History" and will present a program at 1:30pm Saturday on the Mainstage.
A tribute to the Three Birds Bookstore and Ybor arts scene of the 80's-90's takes place at the Don Vicente Inn, 1915 14th Street, Sunday September 13 from 1pm - 4pm. All ages, $1.
A Celebration of the Song Lyric and Spoken Word takes place at New World Brewery, 1313 E. 8th Ave, Ybor City, Sunday September 13 from 2pm - 9pm. All ages, $5. The event features celebrated area musical artists including Rebekah Pulley, Blind Buddy Moody, Geri X, and Shawn Kyle.
2009 Authors, Artists, Musicians
Artists participating in this year’s Deep Carnivale include:
Sharif Ahmed, All Out Rep, Alley Cat Players, Bradley Arthur, Lisa Birnbaum, Blake High School poets, Blind Buddy Moody, Sally Bosco, David Brown, Karen Brown, Victor and Laura Burge, John Capouya, Kendra Corrie, Audrey Colombe, Community Stepping Stones, Julie Compton, Ami Sallee Corley, Neverne Covington, Silvia Curbelo, Martin Dalmasi, Curtis Davis, David Durney, Ronny Elliott, Langston Epps, Melissa Fair, Eunice Fisher, Florida Craftsman Gallery, Papos Fraisca, George Fuller III, Kerri Gentius, Geri X, Mitzi Gordon, Darrin Guilbeau, Paul Guzzo, HCC Dance, Lee Hinkle, Lizz Holister, Irritable Tribe of Poets, Malcohm Johnson, Chris Jones, Venus Jones, Lori Karpay, Claude Kennedy, Shawn Kyle, Lee Academy, Ed Lehmann, John Leland, Mary Kay Madden, Kendall McGuire, Curtis Meyer, Tony Michaelides, Donald Morrill, Tyree DeShawn Murphy, Magali Naas, Adrienne Nadeau, K.L.Nappier, Rhonda J. Nelson, Rick Olsen, Shana Perkins, Ernesto Piloto-Marquez, Christine Pinnock, Rebekah Pulley, Carol Reingold, Gary Rexroad, Alfredo Rivero, John Russell, Gianna Russo, Chris Rutherford, Alexandria Scott, Chase Shiflet, Enid Shomer, Lizz Straight, Jeff Strand, Grab Szenas, Brian Taylor, James Tokely Sr. - Tampa Poet Laureate, Steve Vaclavik, Ray Villadonga, Robin Wood, Valarie Zell, Yellow Jacket Press.
About Deep Carnivale
Organized by the Artists and Writers Group, Inc., in partnership with Hillsborough Community College-Ybor City Campus, this is the third year of a celebration of writing and reading 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.
Deep Carnivale presents art and activities for all ages, from the playful to the avant garde. Children's Future Hillsborough will provide activities for children ages 4-12, with a wide array of supervised literacy, reading and arts activities.
In addition to readings and art installations, numerous book and publishing house vendors, authors signing tables, writers associations and related organizations, refreshments and live music will add ambience to festival.
What people had to say about last year's Deep Carnivale: A Celebration of Words:
"At a moment when ignorance is being aggressively defended, Deep Carnivale still respects our intelligence. Imagine that." (David Warner - Editor, Creative Loafing, 2009)
"[A]n impressive event… a gift that hopefully will continue to grow." (Steve Otto, Tampa Tribune, 2008)
"If you love literature, there's no better place to be on Saturday than Ybor City." (Colette Bancroft, St. Pete Times, 2008)
The Artists and Writers Group, Inc.
Recently reorganized from its previous incarnation in the 1970's-80's, when it was known for unique events, including the famed and notorious Artists and Writers balls in Ybor City, the Group is now devoted to creating partnerships with interested organizations to provide stimulating opportunities for the community to express and share its creativity. The partners and sponsors are dedicated to supporting the Tampa Bay area cultural community with events such as Deep Carnivale: Celebration of Words, Homemade Music Symposium, and the Ybor Festival of the Moving Image.
This event is organized with seed funds from the Ybor City Development Corporation and is presented in partnership with Hillsborough Community College-Ybor City Campus and Children's Future Hillsborough.
If you are interested in being one of our featured artists, authors, vendors, or sponsors, or for general inquiries please contact David Audet daudet@hccfl.edu, or call 813-253-7000 x5179 at the Hillsborough Community College-Ybor City Campus, 2112 N. 15th Street, Tampa, Florida 33675.
Kids Go Global
For the 2008 Deep Carnivale, their theme was The People of Old Ybor City.
For this year's festival, Children's Future Hillsborough and its partner agencies are presenting "kid friendly" activity tables and activities where children learn about the culture of other counties.
Everything from limbo dancing to singing to quick and easy craft projects will illustrate children's activities in Mexico, Africa, the Bahamas, India and Germany.
Also making an appearance will be Bess The Book Bus, the Parent Guide and the Girl Scouts. Children's Future Hillsborough is funded in part by the Children's Board of Hillsborough County.
Stay at Don Vicente
The historic Don Vicente Inn is offering a special room and breakfast package to Deep Carnivale guests. The beautifully restored Inn is located only a short stroll from the HCC-Ybor campus and most Deep Carnivale events.
The $150 per night package includes a standard room, free breakfast, and free parking during the festival, plus free admission to the private Author's Reception on Friday, September 11, free admission to the Three Birds celebration on Sunday, September 13, and a chance to mingle with other Deep Carnivale special guests who will be staying at the hotel.
Call the Inn at 813-241-4545 now, since the boutique hotel has only 12 rooms available in this special package.
Intelligence Respected
Editor David Warner of Creative Loafing said some kind and encouraging words on page 26 of the August 26, 2009, issue. Partial quote, "At a moment when ignorance is being aggressively defended, Deep Carnivale still respects our intelligence. Imagine that."
Twitter Nano-Fiction
Some call it nano-fiction, micro-fiction, twitfic, or twiction. It’s fiction written in 140 characters and in this age of short attention spans, believe it or not, the Internet service Twitter.com is gaining attention.
Sally Bosco will present a half-hour workshop during Deep Carnivale on "How to Write Twitter Flash Fiction".
Ernesto Piloto-Marquez
Ernesto Piloto-Marquez, artist, sculptor and extraordinary pastry chef, will be busy at the 2009 Deep Carnivale. In addition to mounting an exhibit of his paintings and collages, he also will create a chocolate sculpture of Rodin's David sitting on a book and pondering...something. A snack, perhaps.
For a chance to view (and nibble at) Ernesto's sweet masterpiece, you must purchase a $10.00 ticket to Deep Carnivale's Meet the Authors reception 6 to 9pm Friday, September 11, at the Don Vicente Inn in Ybor City.
Sharif Ahmed
Sami Ahmed, keyboard and guitar player for the Tampa band Hypnophonics will perform at the Meet the Authors reception 6 to 9pm Friday, September 11, at the Don Vicente Inn in Ybor City. There are $10.00 tickets still available to this event.
Irritable Tribe of Poets
The Irritable Tribe of Poets, a collective of performing poets and instrumentalists based in Tampa, will be featured performers at the 2009 Deep Carnivale.
The Tribe is an improvisation-oriented ensemble, actively mixing jazz, rock, funk and world-music textures with sundry styles of poetry.
John Leland: Hip as an Obsession
Author and New York Times reporter John Leland will be the keynote speaker at the 2009 Deep Carnivale.
(photo by Jeffrey Scales)
Leland is a self-diagnosed professor of hipness, having authored the 2004 book, "Hip: The History",
about the country's preoccupation with what is (and is not) "hip", and his 2007 book "Why Kerouac Matters"
about the ultimate hipster Jack Kerouac.
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A Different Sort of Ybor Celebration
Esther Martinez, in a story at The Florida Book Review" says she knows "Deep Carnivale will be 'A Celebration of Words' and not a Bourbon Street bacchanal."
"But logophile that I am, I reason I’ll get drunk on language. With over 70 writers and artists scheduled [for the 2008 Carnivale] to perform or read from their works, my beaded necklaces will be strung with verse. I imagine haiku shooters..."
"It is just before 10am when I arrive at the corner of Palm Avenue and 14th Street—Deep Carnivale ground zero. About a dozen vendor tables are lined up around the Hillsborough Community College courtyard where a band of teenagers [Next Exit] are setting up their instruments.
"The vendor tables sell books by local writers, HCC publications and baked goods. I grab a Cuban favorite, papa rellena, a potato stuffed with savory ground beef. Belly satisfied, I cross the street and enter the historic Circulo Cubano. A nearly 100 year old neo-classical building of ionic columns and marble staircases, it served as the Cuban Social Club and remains the oldest building of its kind in the country."Comments From Our Fans
"When I look back over 2008, my visit to the second edition of Deep Carnivale was a
highlight. You and your staff did a great job and I loved being part of it, again.
I am sure there will be bigger festivals to come. But maybe not better!!!"
– Darrell House,
children's book author and 2008 Deep Carnivale presenter.