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September 30, 2012 | Today | Print Calendar

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9 am - 7 pm

India vs Pakistan Cricket Match Live Braodcast

Johnson Center, Cinema

Come watch the ICC World T20 Pakistan vs. India match with everyone on Sunday at 10:00 am!

Free

Harshith Donthula, ahanuman@gmu.edu

12 pm - 5 pm

Fall for the Book: Friends of the George Mason Regional Library Book Sale

George Mason Regional Library, 7001 Little River Turnpike, Annandale, VA

Kara Oakleaf, (703) 993-3986

Web Site

12:30 pm - 2 pm

Fall for the Book: Falling for the Story Reading

Old Town Hall, 3999 University Drive, Fairfax, Va

Student writers share original works published in the Northern Virginia Writing Project’s yearly collection of exemplary work from local elementary, middle, and high schools.

Kara Oakleaf, (703) 993-3986

Web Site

1:30 pm - 3 pm

Fall for the Book: E-book Panel

Tysons-Pimmit Regional Library, 7584 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, VA

Discussion about the current and future impact of e-books on publishers, libraries, and bookstores.

Kara Oakleaf, (703) 993-3986

Web Site

1:30 pm - 3 pm

Fall for the Book: NBCC Literary and Genre Panel

Johnson Center, Room F

The National Book Critics Circle hosts a discussion of literary fiction and genre fiction.

Kara Oakleaf, (703) 993-3986

Web Site

2 pm

Women's Soccer: Mason vs. Old Dominion

Field House

Home game.

Intercollegiate Athletics, (703) 993-3222

Web Site

2 pm - 3:30 pm

Fall for the Book: Novelist Eugenia Kim

City of Fairfax Regional Library, 10360 North Street, Fairfax, VA

Inspired by the life of her own mother, Kim sets her debut novel, The Calligrapher’s Daughter, in early-twentieth-century Korea, in the dying days of one of the longest sustained monarchies in world history.

Kara Oakleaf, (703) 993-3986

Web Site

2 pm - 3:30 pm

Fall for the Book: Legal Scholar and Activist Dean Spade

Research Hall, Room 163

He joins the festival to discuss his book Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law, a critique of the current legal advocacy for trans and gender nonconforming people in the United States.

Kara Oakleaf, (703) 993-3986

Web Site

2 pm - 3:30 pm

Fall for the Book: B.W. Read Panel

Sherwood Regional Library, 2501 Sherwood Hall Lane, Alexandria, VA

The novel Fourth Sunday traces the transformation of a book club into a treasured friendship, as seven women grow together by integrating the personal dimensions of their lives.

Kara Oakleaf, (703) 993-3986

Web Site

3 pm - 4:30 pm

Fall for the Book: Mason MFAers: Two Bens and the Path Less Taken

Johnson Center, Room G

Two grads of the MFA program at Mason have taken turns at less conventional versions of creative endeavors: Ben Chadwick's co-authored book Barbarians: A Handbook for Aspiring Savages and Ben Wilkins' Orange Hat Comics web site.

Kara Oakleaf, (703) 993-3986

Web Site

3 pm - 6 pm

Immigration Film Series: Mooz-lum

Prince William Campus, Occoquan Building, Verizon Auditorium

Film screening of a young man of strict Muslim rearing comes to college confused. New peers, family, and mentors help him find his place, but the 9-11 attacks force him to face his past and make the biggest decision of his life.

Jackie Inskeep, (703) 993-9779, jinskeep@gmu.edu

Web Site

4 pm - 5:30 pm

Fall for the Book: Young Adult Authors Panel

One More Page Books, 2200 N. Westmoreland Street, #101, Arlington, VA

Kristen-Paige Madonia, author of Fingerprints of You, Diana Peterfreund, author of For Darkness Shows the Stars, Carmen Rodrigues, author of 34 Pieces of You, and Timothy Travaglini, Director of Children’s Acquisitions at Open Road Integrated Media.

Kara Oakleaf, (703) 993-3986

Web Site

4 pm - 5:30 pm

Fall for the Book: Congressman Tim Ryan

Harris Theatre

The Center for Consciousness and Transformation hosts Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH), discussing his inspiring new book, A Mindful Nation: How a Simple Practice Can Help Us Reduce Stress, Improve Performance, and Recapture the American Spirit.

Kara Oakleaf, (703) 993-3986

Web Site

4:30 pm - 6 pm

Fall for the Book: Mason MFA Alumni Reading

Center For The Arts, Concert Hall, Grand Tier III

Brian Brodeur, author of the poetry collections Natural Causes and Other Latitudes, Danielle Cadena Deulen, author of the essay collection The Riots and the poetry collection Lovely Asunder, Melanie McCabe, author of the poetry collection History of the Body, and Mike Maggio, author of story collection The Keepers, will read from their respective works.

Kara Oakleaf, (703) 993-3986

Web Site

5:30 pm - 7 pm

Fall for the Book: Gazing Grain Chapbook Reading

Mason Hall, Atrium

Gazing Grain Press, a project of Fall for the Book and alumni of Mason’s MFA program, honors the winner of its inaugural poetry chapbook contest, selected by judge Brian Teare.

Kara Oakleaf, (703) 993-3986

Web Site

6 pm

Film: American Reunion

Johnson Center, Cinema

Jim, Michelle, Stifler, and their friends reunite in East Great Falls, Michigan for their high school reunion.

Student Involvement, (703) 993-2909

Web Site

6:30 pm

Fall for the Book: Fairfax Prize Presentation - Michael Chabon

Center for the Arts, Concert Hall

Michael Chabon's first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988), was originally written for his master's thesis at U.C. Irvine and became a New York Times bestseller.

Web Site

7 pm

Performance: Ballet Folklorico de Mexico

Prince William Campus, Hylton Performing Arts Center, Merchant Hall

Watch centuries of rich Mexican culture come to life as the folk dancers fill the stage, and take audiences on a journey that traces the evolution of Mexican dance from original indigenous peoples up through the present.

$44; $36; $28

Hylton Performing Arts Center Box Office, (703) 993-7759

Web Site