The 42nd annual Kentucky Book Festival will return to Joseph-Beth Booksellers in Lexington from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. this Saturday, Oct. 21. More than 150 authors including many University of Kentucky faculty, staff and alumni will be in attendance, meeting readers and signing books.
When University of Kentucky welcomed the Governor's School for the Arts to campus in 2019, there was no way either party could have predicted how the partnership would evolve.
From serving a class of 256 to now more than 500 of the state’s brightest creative young minds, to taking nine hands-on fields of study from the stage and studio to online screens and back again, the program has not only weathered the storm of year-to-year modifications, but also a global pandemic and the expansion of the program itself.