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
About
Deep Carnivale is produced by The Artists and Writers Group, Inc.
Members of the festival planning committee are: David Audet, Gary Burge, Silvia Curbelo, Lisa Ciurro, T. Hampton Dohrman, Ronny Elliott, Bill Elmendorf, Jim Graves, Janet Henderson, Lori Karpay, Carolyn Kossar, Charlotte Lee, Peggy Lee, Susan McClung, Michael A. Murphy, Chip Neville, Kathleen Ochshorn, John Reimer and Judy Tampa.
About the Name "Deep Carnivale"
The title for the festival comes from a short story by Canadian writer, Bill Gaston.
In his short story, The Kite Trick, the main character uses the phrase often. An important part of the story lies in the character's definition of the phrase and will not be given here.
However, we wish to both thank and offer best wishes to Neverne Covington for bringing the story to the attention of the festival and to this day, her wedding day. Neverne, the festival staff, artists and writers all wish you and Don great happiness.
And while we can only promise this wedding gift, we hope to have Bill Gaston attend a future festival. Deep Carnivale!
Guest Column St. Petersburg Times-City Times-Friday. August 31, 2007
New Role for Artists and Writers Group
Dear Tampa Bay Communities:
The Artists and Writers Group, Inc. has recently reorganized from its previous incarnation in the 1970-80s when it was known for unique events, including the Artists and Writers balls in Ybor City. The Group is now developing partnerships with interested organizations to provide stimulating opportunities for our community to express and share its creativity.
Deep Carnivale: A Celebration of Words is an example of this effort. This new literary festival will bring Florida authors, writers and poets together to share a celebration of literature and writing with the Tampa Bay community.
One goal of the festival is to excite our children and young adults about the pleasures of reading and using the written and spoken word creatively in its many wonderful and diverse forms. Another goal is to illuminate the numerous talented writers living in our community, and a third goal is to provide a new opportunity to emerging authors to develop their audience.
This free, family-friendly street festival will take place in the National Historic District of Ybor City, from the corner of 9th Avenue along the brick-covered 14th Street (Republica de Cuba) to Palm Avenue. This venue was chosen for its proximity to Hillsborough Community College and the historical landmarks of El Pasaje, Ybor Square and the Cuban Club. The lovely, tree-lined HCC patio, the Ybor Room, and the Cuban Club will be excellent venues for the readings and performances.
The Artists and Writers Group, with enthusiastic support from Hillsborough Community College-Ybor and campus president, Dr. Sylvia Carley, the Ybor City Development Corporation, the Hillsborough County Public Library Cooperative and the Cuban Club, anticipate this literature festival to develop into a historic district-wide, three-day event. Other sponsors include Tampa Review, The University of Tampa Press, Ybor City Saturday Market and Grown Man Brand.
With authors, artists, book sellers and community organizations involved and programming designed to appeal from the youngest to the most sophisticated, and with community support, this inaugural event is well on its way to becoming a flagship event for Ybor City and Tampa Bay.
Sincerely,
David Audet
Director
Artists and Writers Group, Inc.
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.