WESTPORT–StoryFest, The Westport Library’s annual literary festival, starts tonight with writer, filmmaker and activist Julian Brave NoiseCat and ends with acclaimed producer Shonda Rhimes on Monday, Oct. 20.
Now in its eighth year, StoryFest is the largest literary festival in Connecticut and one of the largest in the country, according to the library.
NoiseCat, the author and screenwriter, will introduce his memoir “We Survived the Night.” It’s due to be released nationally tomorrow, but early copies will be on hand tonight, the library said.
On Friday, a screening of Bonnie Blue: James Cotton’s Life in the Blues, will be followed by a concert by the James Montgomery Blues Band with Beehive Queen Christine Ohlman, featured vocalist in the Saturday Night Live band.
The Saturday events include a full day of discussions, author signings, book talks and podcast recordings featuring more than 30 authors. Workshops will focus on writing heroes and villains and bedazzling books with gems, glitter and more. Panel discussions on explore writing horror, young adult fiction, stories that resist categorization and strong women characters.
Rhimes’s event will celebrate the 10th anniversary of her Year of Yes.
What an amazing storyteller, with an amazing story to tell. We loved his talk, look forward to reading “I Survived the Night,” and learned a lot from spending 90 minutes with this young man.
I don’t think Sugarcane is a “documentary” as it strays far from credible and substantiated facts and makes incendiary claims (just do some google searches). It seems more of a hit job against the Catholic Church, from a guy who grew up in Oakland and went to Columbia and Oxford. He’s a social justice/climate change activist, not a documentary film-maker. Hey, let’s just burn down a few more churches to make us feel good?