PUBLICATIONS Inside Illinois Vol. 27, No. 21, June 5, 2008

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Brief Notes

• Master piano instruction, public concerts featured June 17-21

• Music barn festival expands with more concerts, range of music

Explore the world through sports and games

Youth summer camp is July 23-25

To help celebrate the upcoming Summer Olympics, Illinois 4-H, along with the UI area studies centers, is sponsoring a youth summer camp offering a “Passport to the World.” The camp – for youth ages 12-14 – will be held at 4-H Memorial Camp near Monticello from July 23  to 25. The goal of the camp is to increase knowledge of sports and games from countries and regions around the world.

Participants will:

• Meet and visit with Erik Henriksen, member of the 1980, 1984 and 1988 U.S. Olympic teams and bronze medalist in sprints, 500m and 100m.

• Participate with fellow teammates in an Olympic/World Sports Challenge.

• Participate in sports and games popular in Brazil, China, Europe, Japan, Russia and West Africa.

• Learn new games and recreational activities.

Registration is open to the first 75 participants who register by June 30. Participants do not need to be 4-H members or residents of Illinois. The $75 registration fee includes meals, lodging, insurance, T-shirt and program fees. To register or get more information, go to www.4-h.uiuc.edu/opps/camping.html or contact Dorothy Horsch, dhorsch@illinois.edu.

Printers Row

UI units to share exhibit at literary event

Four publishing-related units located at the UI’s Urbana campus, and the UI Alumni Association, will collaborate on an exhibit at the 2008 Chicago Tribune Printers Row Book Fair at Dearborn and Polk streets in Chicago. The UI Library, UI Press, the Illini Union Bookstore, Dalkey Archive Press and the Alumni Association will gather under one tent from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. June 7-8, to display and sell recent books, host author signings, and promote UI unity and scholarship.

The book fair is considered the largest free outdoor literary event in the Midwest, drawing more than 100,000 book lovers.

“Printer’s Row is such a great venue to meet people who care about books – from authors, publishing people and librarians, to the folks who read and buy them,” said Joan Catapano, associate director and editor-in-chief at the UI Press. “The author panels are stimulating, and the exchanges between writer and reader are refreshing and interesting.”

In previous years, the University Library and University Press have shared half of a tent, increasing traffic and sales each year.  This year they are joined for the first time by the Illini Union Bookstore, Dalkey Archive Press and the Alumni Association.

The UI Press, which will feature an array of titles from its 90-year history, and Dalkey Archive Press, a renowned translations publisher that has been in business for 23 years and affiliated with the university for just over one year, will sponsor the Printers Row panel “Translating the World:  Illinois as a Center of International Publishing.” The panel: UI Press director Willis Regier, Dalkey Archive Press founder and publisher John O’Brien, Andrew Wachtel of Northwestern University Press, and moderator Patrick Reardon of the Chicago Tribune.

The exhibit also will host author book signings including Chicago authors, UI faculty authors and nationally known writers. For more information and a full schedule, go to printersrowbookfair.org.

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