February 29, 2007
The Ann Arbor Book Festival wins Best of Show
The Ann Arbor Book Festival earned recognition at this year’s ADDY Awards, a celebration of local advertising excellence held at the Rackham Building in conjunction with the Ann Arbor Ad Club. In addition to winning "Best of Show" for its 2006 campaign, the festival garnered two Gold ADDYs and one Silver Citation.
Many community partners contributed to the success of the winning campaign including: The Ann Arbor News, Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor Printing & Mailing Services, Edwards Brothers Incorporated, Malloy Incorporated, Main Street T-Shirts & Gifts, Thomson-Shore, KatMalda Design, and The Exclamation Point.
In total, 173 entries were submitted to the ADDY award competition by Ann Arbor area advertising agencies. The ADDY Awards is a highly respected advertising competition, with over 60,000 entries submitted each year.
In addition to the awards won on behalf of the Ann Arbor Book Festival, illustrator Heidi Woodward (who creates, and generously donates, the wonderful posters for the Festival) also earned four additional awards for the Ann Arbor District Library’s children’s publication Jump and for her children’s picture book illustrations.
To see Heidi's work, go to www.heidibooks.com.
Festival Photo
Highlights
Street Festival
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Outdoor Stage
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Booths of Books
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Children's Pavilion
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Books Galore
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Author Signings
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Author Readings
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2005
May 15, 2005
2nd Annual Ann Arbor Book Festival Set for
May 19 through 22
This year's Festival to build on success
of inaugural 2004 event
The 2nd Annual Ann Arbor Book Festival features
some favorites from the first Festival held last April and also
offers a few new elements.
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2004
September 7, 2004
Ann Arbor Book Festival
Announces New Executive Director
At 10:30 a.m. on Monday, September 13, a press
conference will be held in the offices of Flint Ink at 4600 Arrowhead
Drive, Ann Arbor. The Ann Arbor Book Festival board chair, Evans
Young will present the new executive director for the Ann Arbor
Book Festival, Kathy Robenalt. "We conducted an extensive
search and are very excited about Kathy" said Evans Young.
"Kathy is a long-term community volunteer with extensive
experience in non-profit and community event leadership."
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February 3, 2004
First
Annual Ann Arbor Book Festival Set for April 22 through 25
Inaugural Festival to Highlight Books,
Authors and Literacy
