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Sunday, April 26, 2020 | 11am-4pm * * We are so sad to announce that the 2020 festival has been cancelled due to the current crisis. We had a great festival planned but we will regroup and have a great festival next year! Thank you to everyone who supported and encouraged us in so many different ways. And to all our authors...keep writing! Please everyone stay safe and healthy. Elisenda & the 2020 Festival Team

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Ariadna Farres from Esplai Catala DC shows us how to make a cute dragon bookmark. This is a fun and functional craft for kids of all ages!

2020 Featured Books

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Festival Location and Description

Armory Avenue and Howard Avenue, Kensington Antique Row, Kensington Md 20895

The Kensington Day of the Book Festival is an outdoor street festival held rain or shine. Howard Ave and parts of Armory Ave and Fawcett St in the Town of Kensington, MD, are closed and participants are set up on the street under canopies in a “meet and greet” format. Interspersed with the participants are program tents, live music, food court, and other festival highlights. In the past few years the festival has drawn 6000-8000 visitors.

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Special Guest Author at Bonjour Books

Kathy Borrus
“Notre Dame de Paris:
A Celebration of the Cathedral”

On April 15, 2019 the world looked on in horror as the Notre Dame Cathedral was nearly destroyed in a devastating fire. “Notre Dame de Paris: A Celebration of the Cathedral” offers a fascinating look back at nearly nine centuries of this landmark building that has stood as silent witness to some of the most important events in human history.

Bonjour Books is located at 3758 Howard Ave

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Wandering Magician

Matt Neufeld will be performing strolling, walk-around, close-up magic tricks from 11:00am to 3:00pm! Matt performs entertaining, fun, magical and family-friendly card, coin, mind-reading, production (making things appear and disappear) tricks, and other close-up magic tricks, that are enjoyable for all ages!

Videos by Montserrat Gorina-Ysern, LLC

2018 Sant Jordi a Kensington, Maryland https://vimeo.com/266385314
2017 Books&Roses Sant Jordi a Washington DC i Maryland https://vimeo.com/214436218
2014-2015 Biblioteca Catalana, Sant Jordi and Kensington Day of the Book Festival, Maryland https://vimeo.com/152998597

Thank you

A big "Thank you" to artist
Alba Marina Rivera
for our festival logo illustration
albamarinarivera.com
Barcelona, Spain

Contact Information

Elisenda Sola-Sole
Festival Director

301-949-9416
kensingtonbookfestival2020@gmail.com

Mail and Drop-in address:
Kensington Book Festival
3786 Howard Ave
Kensington, MD 20895

2020 Festival Team

The Kensington Day of the Book is a festival created by the community for the community. Many thanks to our festival team:

Elisenda Sola-Sole – Festival Director
Steve Piacente – Festival MC
Liz Brennan - Community Outreach
Leslie Maxam - Volunteers
Sarah Bonner - Music Stage
Tom Bowes - Music Stage Soundman
Nancy Naomi Carlson - Poetry Program
Jonathan Bardzik - From Book to Plate Program
Dick Epstein - Veteran Writers Program
Magalí Muria-Tunon - Catalonia Program
Gera Herdman - Graphic Designer
Linda Blackbourn & Anne Stone - GALA Craft Fair
- Food Trucks
Rebecca Boone - Food Court
Michel Hueber - Howard Ave Business Liaison
Albert "The Lace" Lacey - Logistics Captain
Pam Stuckey - Logistics
Alice Kessler - Logistics
Robin Watson - Logistics
George Buckwalter - Audio & Stage
Carl Porter - Carpentry
Janet Camillo & Larry Johnson - Signage logistics
The Meet & Greet Team & all our great Volunteers!

Support our Local and Literary Festivals

Kensington Car Show
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kensingtoncarshow.com

Literary Hill BookFest
Sunday, May 3, 2020
literaryhillbookfest.org

Gaithersburg Book Festival
Saturday, May 16th, 2020
gaithersburgbookfestival.org

Smithsonian Folklife Festival
June 24-28 & July 1-5, 2020
Folklife Festival Website

Kensington Labor Day Festival
Monday, September 7th, 2020

National Book Festival
Saturday, August 29th, 2020
loc.gov/bookfest

Wheaton Arts Parade
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F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Festival
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fscottfestival.org

See a list of local book festivals HERE

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