Book Passage at 40! - Anniversary Celebration

Please join us for a day of fun and celebration:

10:00 am
We’re starting off with the kids, inviting them to come up and read stories they have written or whatever they feel like reading. Among the many who will be there reading, we expect the kids from INK to be there with their first book Dragon Mist and its new sequel. Come hear some of our local students read their work! We are showcasing the writers of tomorrow as part of our 40th Anniversary celebration. This is entirely selfish on our part. We’re hope that they will get the feel for how much fun it is to read in front of a bookstore audience. If so, they might just be coming back for years to come with books they have written. Time will be limited. So please contact Joy (joy@bookpassage. com) to let us know you will be a reader! (But we warn you! Famous authors have told us it could be habit-forming.)

3:00 pm
In the afternoon there will be a reception in the café for Tom Killion’s new collection of graphic arts that will be displayed both in the cafe and the gallery. Tom Killion is a native of Marin County who has been producing acclaimed Japanese-style woodcut prints of the California landscape for over forty years. Killion has created over 400 relief prints, and has produced five handmade art books depicting landscapes from California to Europe and Africa. Killion’s most recent book, California’s Wild Edge, is a fresh collaboration with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gary Snyder.

4:00 pm
Isabel Allende, Anne Lamott and Don George will speak about the history of the bookstore and what it means to them and the community. Following that there will be a slide presentation about the store (shamelessly heaped in nostalgia!). And following that, we will break out the bubbly and celebrate

And here’s where you can help!
We are asking our friends to bring a “not too used” book to donate to our Hospice Used Book department. We will be donating a portion of the day’s new book sales to Hospice to help support their wonderful programs.

 

Location: 

51 Tamal Vista Blvd
Corte Madera, CA 94925