The NEA Big Read and Fox Cities Book Festival Present Patricia Engel
Schedule
Fri Apr 05 2024 at 06:30 pm
Location
Fox Cities Performing Arts Center | Appleton, WI
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Join us for the NEA Big Read Keynote with author Patricia Engel, opening stories from Latin American Storyteller Carolina Quiroga, a community art display created with the Trout Museum of Art, and more.Where: Fox Cities Performing Arts Center, Kimberly Clark Theater
When: 6:30 PM
Tickets: No tickets needed. All are welcome to attend.
For more information about book clubs, art, and culture events related to the NEA Big Read presented by Fox Cities Book Festival, visit: https://foxcitiesbookfestival.org/upcoming-events/
NEA Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest.
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Carolina Quiroga's BIO
Carolina is a bilingual storyteller who engages her audience with Latin American stories from El Río Grande to La Patagonia. Since arriving in the US, she has been featured at the National Storytelling Festival and The Timpanogos Storytelling Festival, among other events. Carolina has toured numerous schools, libraries, museums, and cultural institutions from east to west, sharing the richness of Latin American and Hispanic folklore.
Her dedication to stories brought her to produce her literary podcast, Tres Cuentos, which showcases Latin America’s literature and can be found at her website, www.carolinaquiroga.com. Today, Carolina showcases animated videos for kids, parents, and teachers to enjoy on her YouTube Channel @CarolinaQuirogaStoryteller.
As a teacher-artist for The Wolf Trap Institute of Early Learning since 2016, Carolina created an integrated curriculum for Pre-K classrooms in San Antonio, Texas. Today, she is part of the TAPAS (Teaching Artists Presenting in Asheville Schools).
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Patricia Engel's BIO
Patricia Engel is the author of the recently published story collection The Faraway World. Her novel Infinite Country was an instant New York Times Bestseller, a Washington Post Notable Book of the Year, a Reese's Book Club, Esquire Book Club and Book of the Month Club pick, an Indie Next pick and an Amazon Best Book of the Year in addition to being a 2023 National Endowment for the Arts Big Read. Infinite Country is the winner of the New American Voices Award, was a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.
Her other acclaimed and award-winning books include The Veins of the Ocean, which won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and was named a New York Times Editors’ Choice and a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year; It’s Not Love, It’s Just Paris, which won the International Latino Book Award, and Vida, winner of a Florida Book Award, International Latino Book Award and Independent Publisher Book Award. For Vida, Patricia was the first woman to be awarded Colombia’s national prize in literature, the 2017 Premio Biblioteca de Narrativa Colombiana.
Born to Colombian parents, Patricia is a graduate of New York University and earned her MFA at Florida International University. She is an Associate Professor in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Miami.
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Where is it happening?
Fox Cities Performing Arts Center, 200 W Johnston St, Appleton, WI 54911, United States,Appleton, WisconsinEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
