This year s Kansas Book Festival will move from its usual venue at the Kansas Statehouse to Mabee Library at Washburn University.
The festival is scheduled for 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Sept. 18 and will feature free presentations by 40 authors, outdoor performances, a book-art exhibit, food vendors and exhibitor tents with publishers from around Kansas.
The event will kick off 4 p.m. Sept. 17 with a presentation by Hefner Heitz Kansas Book Award winner Rebek Taussig who will speak about her memoir Sitting Pretty: The View from my Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body.
Aimee Nezhukumatahil, author of World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks and Other Astonishments, will headline the festival, according to a news release from Kansas Book Festival executive director Tim Bascom.
Even though she has lived in Topeka her whole life, Dominique Becher didn t know a lot about the local nonprofits and community organizations helping families in extreme need.
But in taking a Washburn University sociology class focused on high-impact community engagement practices, Becher, and several other students like her, are getting first-hand experience in not only recognizing an issue in the community but working to bridge any needs from the issue.
Students in one of Sangyoub Park’s courses, Social Class in the U.S., will host the class’s third annual diaper drive for Community Action from March 15 to 28.