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Word of warning: Gallagher Theater will probably fill for every session all weekend. The rest are openly available, first-come, first-served. Only one-third of the available seats in each of those six venues are reserved for those with tickets. Here’s the deal: Six of the festival’s 31 venues offer “free advance booking” vouchers for sponsors, donors, and (sometimes) a handful of patient people willing to brave the festival website. The most confusing, perplexing and maddening word in the festival vocabulary is “tickets.” Fuhgetabout’em! Pretend they don’t exist! There are stairs at the north and sound ends of the large, open-air skylight. Look for the giant hole in the middle of the Mall, north of the UA Library. Many of the festival’s biggest authors will appear in the Integrated Learning Center, which is tricky to find. Mamta Popat, Arizona Daily Star Find the ILC
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It’s free and can be downloaded from your favorite App Store.Ī festival goer listens as authors speak during the “Painful to Write, Powerful to Read” discussion at the 2019 Tucson Festival of Books. Updates and alerts will be posted on the book festival app all weekend. Vendors on the festival midway will have thousands more. The UA Bookstore will have 35,000 volumes available for purchase. If nothing else, you’ll need time to browse all the books. Give yourself time between sessions to walk, wander and explore. … but don’t overplanĭon’t try to see four or five author sessions in a single day. Be ready with Plan B for those time slots you’d like to see authors. There will be turn-away crowds for some sessions, particularly in Gallagher Theater. There are 31 author venues scattered from Old Main to Campbell and in buildings along the UA Mall.

If you want to see bestselling authors on-stage (you'll find Linda Ronstadt, Bernie Sanders and more names you may recognize), study the festival schedule before you leave home. Rick Wiley, Arizona Daily Star Come with a plan

Humorist, playwright and New York Times best-selling author Michael Perry regales the audience with tales of small-town antics at the 2019 Tucson Festival of Books. Thousands of us just like to wander the festival “midway,” browsing the 200 popup shops. Younger kids can play games and meet picture book characters at the Children & Teens Festival. Young people love the hands-on, interactive ways to experience science and nature in Science City. The festival is lots of things to lots of people. Buildings along the Mall, including the UA Bookstore and Student Union, are important parts of the festival, too. Vendors, food sellers, and various stages fill most of the green belt area. The festival footprint envelopes the entire eastern length of the UA Mall, from Old Main to Campbell Avenue. At any given time during the day, only about a fourth of the people on campus are with the authors. Even if you’re not a reader, there are plenty of things to do. It’s a full-on street fair with food, music, entertainment and 31 stages featuring nationally-known authors. The Tucson Festival of Books is hardly a stiff, snobby gathering of bookworms. Rick Wiley, Arizona Daily Star What is it, exactly? Students from the University of Arizona Chemistry Club serve up lemonade that was flash-frozen using liquid nitrogen in the Science City area at the 2019 Tucson Festival of Books.
