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Posts tagged “emily pilloton

Get Ready for Berkeley #Unbound – GIRLS GARAGE

Posted on September 29, 2020

Our beloved Bay Area Book Festival is back with another exciting event: Berkeley #Unbound, an all-day, free virtual mini-festival with, of course, two riveting youth programs. On Sunday, October 4 we will kick-off at 11:00 am with PROTEST + PRINT: Girls Using Words and Pictures for Activism with Girls Garage founder, builder, humanitarian design activist Emily Pilloton. Emily will be in conversation with HyeYoon Song, artist and educator and lead instructor for Girls Garage’s Protest + Print cohort, and Malaya Conui, student and visual artist.  At Girls Garage in Berkeley, girls use power tools to build the world they want to see. But a different kind of world-building also takes place at Girls Garage: the kind that creates a vision for a better and…

Books at the Bay Area Book Festival

Posted on July 3, 2020

It was a steep learning curve, this shelter-in-place pivot from an in-person book festival to an online happening. Instead of two glorious days in May in downtown Berkeley, we worked round the clock to get at least part of our line up ready for an online happening. And not just a two-day online festival. We managed to get two and a half months of just beyond incredible book programs to you via our YouTube Channel.  What can I say about the children’s and YA programming? I learned new skills every single day. I am out of this world grateful to the entire technical team that made it possible for me to produce 30 just absolutely delightful and insightful programs for young audiences. This post is…