Press Release - September 21, 2007
Contact: Julie Tollefson
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Tickets for Jim Lehrer's keynote address at River City Reading Festival available Sept. 28 at Lawrence Public Library
Tickets for Jim Lehrer's keynote address at the River City Reading Festival will be distributed beginning at 9 a.m. Friday, September 28, at the reference desk at the Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. There is a limit of four tickets per person.
Lehrer, host of "The NewsHour" on PBS, will speak at 11 a.m. Sunday, October 14, 2007, in the theater at the Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire St.
Seating for Lehrer's keynote address is by ticket-based general admission. A ticket guarantees a seat until 10:30 a.m., when unfilled seats will be filled on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Lehrer's talk will be preceded at 10:45 a.m. by welcoming remarks by Christie Brandau, Kansas state librarian, and Kassie Edwards, chair of the River City Reading Festival.
The first-ever River City Reading Festival will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 14, 2007, at the Lawrence Arts Center.
The daylong celebration of reading will bring together dozens of authors and performers, most of whom have strong connections to Kansas. Featured authors include Kansas Poet Laureate Denise Low, award-winning children's author Lise Lunge-Larsen, and artist and author Stephen Johnson, a native of Lawrence.