{"id":1161,"date":"2018-12-31T15:58:54","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T15:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=1161"},"modified":"2018-12-31T15:58:54","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T15:58:54","slug":"special-events-108","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=1161","title":{"rendered":"Special Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"articleHeader\"><\/div>\n<ul id=\"u333338-5\">\n<li id=\"u333338-4\">No special events this week<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 id=\"u333338-8\">Ongoing Exhibits<\/h1>\n<ul id=\"u333338-15\">\n<li id=\"u333338-11\"><span id=\"u333338-9\">Fact, Fiction, and the New World: The Role of Books in the Making of America<\/span> (a Humanities Texas exhibition), Midland, October 1-December 31<\/li>\n<li id=\"u333338-14\"><span id=\"u333338-12\">National Center for Children&#8217;s Illustrated Literature exhibition: The Illustrations of Melissa Sweet,<\/span> Abilene, November 9-January 27<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 id=\"u333338-18\">Sunday, December 17<\/h1>\n<p id=\"u333338-20\">Austin<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u333338-29\">\n<li id=\"u333338-22\">4th Tap Brewing Coop, Revel presents &#8220;Invoke the Light,&#8221; a musical and poetic celebration in the spirit of the season, 12:30PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u333338-24\">BookWoman, Winter Solstice Celebration with poetry and music, 2PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u333338-26\">Malvern Books, an afternoon with Coco Picard, Devin King, Anthony Madrid, Nadya Pittendrigh, and Julia Hendrickson celebrating the release of Coco\u2019s graphic novel The Chronicles of Fortune, 2PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u333338-28\">Malvern Books, a poetry reading and birthday cake to celebrate the late, great poet laureate of Hyde Park, Albert Huffstickler, 4PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u333338-32\">Dallas<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u333338-35\">\n<li id=\"u333338-34\">Half Price Books Mothership, Local Author Sundays: Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release, while supplies last<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u333338-38\">Houston<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u333338-41\">\n<li id=\"u333338-40\">Writespace, Workshop: &#8220;Memoir 101&#8221; with Dr. Holly Ordway, 2PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 id=\"u333338-44\">Monday, December 18<\/h1>\n<p id=\"u333338-46\">Dallas<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u333338-49\">\n<li id=\"u333338-48\">Deep Vellum Books, Dark Moon Poetry &#038; Arts Series, 7PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u333338-52\">Richardson<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u333338-55\">\n<li id=\"u333338-54\">Richardson Public Library, Writers Guild of Texas Holiday Party featuring games, prizes, refreshments, and the announcement of the 2017 WGT Flash Fiction contest winners, 7PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 id=\"u333338-58\">Tuesday, December 19<\/h1>\n<p id=\"u333338-60\">Austin<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u333338-65\">\n<li id=\"u333338-62\">B&#038;N &#8211; Arboretum, Story time: Cary Gray will read his children&#8217;s book, Luno! A Children&#8217;s Book Drawn by Foot, 10AM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u333338-64\">Spiderhouse Ballroom, Austin Poetry Slam featuring Speak Piece, hosted by Jomar Valentin, 7PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u333338-68\">Dallas<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u333338-71\">\n<li id=\"u333338-70\">Moody Performance Hall, Oral Fixation presents &#8220;Close to Home,&#8221; 8PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u333338-74\">Houston<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u333338-79\">\n<li id=\"u333338-76\">Amegy Bank Tower, World Affairs Council of Greater Houston hosts Former Deputy National Security Advisor Elliott Abrams discussing and signing Realism and Democracy: American Foreign Policy after the Arab Spring, 7PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u333338-78\">The Black Labrador, Houston Writers House meeting: &#8220;How to Submit Short Stories and Poetry to Magazines and Journals&#8221; with Elise Holland, 6:30PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u333338-82\">San Antonio<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u333338-85\">\n<li id=\"u333338-84\">The Mix, PuroSlam Grand Slam Champion Showdown, 10PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 id=\"u333338-88\">Wednesday, December 20<\/h1>\n<p id=\"u333338-90\">Austin<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u333338-93\">\n<li id=\"u333338-92\">Malvern Books, Austin edition of the Why There Are Words reading series featuring Peg Alford Pursell, Butch Hancock, Ken Waldman, and Justin Booth, 7PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u333338-96\">Dallas<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u333338-101\">\n<li id=\"u333338-98\">Half Price Books Mothership, legendary former Dallas Cowboys player Lee Roy Jordan discussing and signing his memoir, Lee Roy Jordan: My Story of Faith, Family, and Football (proceeds from book sales benefit the Paul W. Bryant Museum and the Lee Roy Jordan Academic Scholarship to The University of Alabama), 7PM [numbered pass required]<\/li>\n<li id=\"u333338-100\">The Wild Detectives, REJECTED: STORIES UNSOLD December reading and holiday party, 7:30PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u333338-104\">Houston<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u333338-107\">\n<li id=\"u333338-106\">Avant Garden, Write About Now Poetry Slam, 7:30PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u333338-110\">San Antonio<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u333338-115\">\n<li id=\"u333338-114\">The Twig Book Shop, Eduardo Cavazos Garza reads from his poetry collection, Hijacked by Fire, 5PM<br \/><span id=\"u333342\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetwig.com\/event\/eduardo-cavazos-garza-hijacked-fire\" id=\"u333343\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"readableLinkWithMediumImage\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"626\" height=\"58\" src=\"https:\/\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/sites\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/files\/description\/twig%20event%20ad%20122017.jpg\"  id=\"u333343_img\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 id=\"u333338-118\">Thursday, December 21<\/h1>\n<p id=\"u333338-120\">Houston<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u333338-123\">\n<li id=\"u333338-122\">Under the Radar Brewery, Francois Pointeau hosts the inaugural Radar Talk Series featuring four bizarro-horror-dark-comedy writers: John Wayne Comunale, Kelby Losack, Andrew Hilbert, and Robert Dean, 6PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u333338-126\">South Padre Island<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u333338-129\">\n<li id=\"u333338-128\">Paragraphs on Padre, Meet the Author Series: book signing and reception with poet Rudy Garcia, author of Two Eagles, 1PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u333338-132\">Sugar Land<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u333338-135\">\n<li id=\"u333338-134\">B&#038;N &#8211; First Colony, Story time with local author Maria Ashworth, 10AM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 id=\"u333338-138\">Friday, December 22<\/h1>\n<p id=\"u333338-140\">The Woodlands<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u333338-143\">\n<li id=\"u333338-142\">The Woodlands Children\u2019s Museum, Storybook Theatre: Margaret McManis will read and sign her new children\u2019s book, Tally Ho Ho, 11AM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 id=\"u333338-146\">Saturday, December 23<\/h1>\n<p id=\"u333338-148\">Austin<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u333338-151\">\n<li id=\"u333338-150\">Austin Books &#038; Comics, Christmas Party featuring the prize tent, sales and specials, and free cocoa and candy canes, 10AM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u333338-154\">Galveston<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u333338-157\">\n<li id=\"u333338-156\">Galveston Bookshop, Steve H. Alexander signing Exploring Galveston, 2PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u333338-160\">Houston<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u333338-163\">\n<li id=\"u333338-162\">Half Price Books &#8211; Clear Lake, Local Author Saturdays: Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release, while supplies last<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u333338-166\">Midland<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u333338-169\">\n<li id=\"u333338-168\">B&#038;N, Suzie Jackson signing her children&#8217;s book, If You Were A Commandment, 11:30AM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u333338-172\">San Antonio<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u333338-177\">\n<li id=\"u333338-176\">The Twig Book Shop, Kena Sosa reads and signs her children&#8217;s book The Unhuggables, 11AM<br \/><span id=\"u333339\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetwig.com\/event\/kena-sosa-unhuggables\" id=\"u333340\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"readableLinkWithMediumImage\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"585\" height=\"54\" src=\"https:\/\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/sites\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/files\/description\/twig%20event%20ad%20122317.jpg\"  id=\"u333340_img\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 id=\"u333338-180\">Sunday, December 24<\/h1>\n<p id=\"u333338-182\">Dallas<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u333338-185\">\n<li id=\"u333338-184\">Half Price Books Mothership, Local Author Sundays: Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release, while supplies last<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u333338-188\">* * * * *<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No special events this week Ongoing Exhibits Fact, Fiction, and the New World: The Role of Books in the Making of America (a Humanities Texas exhibition), Midland, October 1-December 31 National Center for Children&#8217;s Illustrated Literature exhibition: The Illustrations of Melissa Sweet, Abilene, November 9-January 27 Sunday, December 17 Austin 4th Tap Brewing Coop, Revel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}