Embassy activities at the Book Fair

April 24

3:00 and 4:00 pm
From Image to Icon: El Che
By Michael Casey
Buenos Aires bureau chief for Dow Jones and author of Che’s Afterlife:  the Legacy of an Image
In English
At Embassy booth

5:00 pm
Donigan Merritt will read from his novel, Possessed by Shadows. Reading and discussion in English
At Embassy booth

6:00 pm
Buenos Aires through the Eyes of an American Travel Writer
By Michael Luongo, author of Frommer’s Buenos Aires
In English and Spanish
At Embassy booth

April 25

3:00 pm
Maryann Ullmann and Ambi Alexander, members of the local ex-pat writers group, Thursdays@Three, will read from their work
In English and Spanish.
At Embassy booth

4:00 pm
How to Write a Screenplay/Cómo escribir un libreto
By Katharine Jones y Tara Sullivan
panel discussion in English and Spanish
Room Domingo Faustino Sarmiento

6:00 pm
Anchoring Fiction in Geography
By Annie Proulx
In English with simultaneous translation
Room Julio Cortazar.

April 26

4:00 pm
Buenos Aires through the Eyes of an American Travel Writer
By Michael Luongo, author of Frommer’s Buenos Aires
In English and Spanish
At Embassy booth

5:00 pm
“The Work of Art as an Inquiry:  a Bilingual, Bi-cultural Balance of Two Worlds.” 
By Alexandra Newton Rios, U.S. writer living in San Miguel de Tucuman
In Spanish and English
At Embassy booth

6:00 pm
Amanda Fernandez, Katharine Jones, and Tara Sullivan, members of the local ex-pat writers group, Thursdays@Three, will read from their work
In English and Spanish
At Embassy booth

April 28

6:00 pm
Donigan Merritt will read from his novel, The Common Bond  (Other Press, 2008)
Reading and discussion in English
At Embassy booth

7:00 pm
Buenos Aires through the Eyes of an American Travel Writer
By Michael Luongo, author of Frommer’s Buenos Aires
In English and Spanish
At Embassy booth

April 29

6:00 – 8:00 pm
New York University-Buenos Aires; readings with students from NYU’s Creative Writing class
In English
At Embassy booth

April 30

5:00 pm
Undergraduate studies in the US: how to get ready and complete the admisions process
In Spanish
At Embassy booth

6:00
Useful tips: how to succeed at applying for graduate programs.
In Spanish
At Embassy booth

May 1

5:00 pm
Maryann Ullmann and Amanda Fernandez, members of the local ex-pat writers group, Thursdays@Three, will read from their work
In English and Spanish
At Embassy booth

6:00 pm
Don Ranard will read from his story, “The Accidental Hotel,” from Best Travel Reading 2005
Reading and discussion in English and Spanish
At Embassy booth

7:00 pm
Tara Sullivan, Katharine Jones, and Ambi Alexander, members of the local ex-pat writers group, Thursdays@Three, will read from their work
In English and Spanish.
At Embassy booth

May 2

5:00 pm
Rodolfo Reich, author of Mixology in Argentina, will speak with translator Brian Byrnes on “Mixing Cocktails and Languages”
In Spanish and English.
At Embassy booth

6:00 pm
Brian Byrnes, author of Fodor’s Argentina and Fodor’s Buenos Aires, will speak on “Travel Writing:  Describing Argentina to the World”
In English and Spanish
At Embassy booth

8:00
De Santo Domingo a Nueva York: la experiencia de los inmigrantes en los Estados Unidos
By Junot Díaz
In Spanish
Sala Julio Cortázar.

May 3

4:00 pm
Professor Elizabeth Otero-Krauthammer, author of the forthcoming Alborada:  Destellos del alma (Editorial Dunken, Buenos Aires), will read from her poems
Reading and discussion in Spanish
At Embassy booth

5:00 pm
Vietnamese-American writer, visual artist and dedicated Argentine tango dancer Mong-Lan will read from her work
In Spanish and English
At Embassy booth

May 5

4:00 pm
GLOBE Program presentation
(Global Learning and Observations to Benefits the Environment)
In Spanish
At Embassy booth

4:30 pm
How to Form and Maintain a Writers Group
By Amanda Fernandez, Katharine Jones, Tara Sullivan, Joanna Richardson, Sharon Haywood, Ambi Alexander, and Maryann Ullmann
Sala Alfonsina Storni

5:00 -7:00 pm
New York University-Buenos Aires; readings with students from NYU’s Creative Writing class
In English
At Embassy booth

May 6

7:00 pm
Graduate studies in the United sattes
By Melina Ginzsparg.
In Spanish
At Embassy booth

May 7

7:30 pm
USA Day Día de los Estados Unidos
Show tunes/Música de película
Buenos Aires Cross Over Orquesta
Directed by Jose Luis Cladera
Sala José Hernandez

May 9

4:00 pm
Vietnamese-American writer, visual artist and dedicated Argentine tango dancer will read from her work
In Spanish and English
At Embassy booth

May 10

4:00 pm
From Image to Icon: El Che By Michael Casey
Buenos Aires bureau chief for Dow Jones and author of Che’s Afterlife:  the Legacy of an Image
In Spanish
At Embassy booth