Cultured Cocktails to benefit the Houston Indie Book Fest!

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Come out to Boheme Café and Wine Bar on Thursday, November 10th from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. to raise a glass to benefit the Houston Indie Book Festival.

As part of Spacetaker’s Cultured Cocktails program (voted “Best Happy Hour of 2010” by Houston Press), a portion of the bar tab on November 10th will be donated to Houston’s largest and only community event that celebrates small presses, nonprofit literary groups, magazines, journals, readers, and writers alike.

Boheme is located at 307 Fairview (on the corner of Taft) in the Montrose neighborhood.

The fifth annual Houston Indie Book Festival will showcase dozens of nationally-distributed literary journals, local booksellers, publishers, small presses, literary organizations, and writers at the Menil Park on Saturday, April 14th from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m.

Co-sponsored by NANO Fiction and Gulf Coast, the festival showcases the efforts of writers, artists, teachers, community members, and cultural groups working to make the arts and humanities a vibrant part of the Houston community.

The festival will offer readings by local authors throughout the day, informational panels, and a new children’s area with events and readings for the entire family. This year’s festival is set to correspond with the Menil Collection’s Open House event. Alongside the book fair, visitors can enjoy outdoor art exhibits, tours of the Menil campus, art demonstrations, live music, food trucks, and much more!

This event is free, and everyone in the community is invited to participate in what has become Houston’s largest and only event of its kind. More information about the Houston Indie Book Festival is available online at http://indiebookfest.org.

Since 2008, the Houston Indie Book Festival has steadily expanded from a small gathering of local bookstores and artists to a full-scale regional event. To date, more than fifty exhibitors from all over Texas and the U.S. are scheduled to participate.

The Houston Indie Book Festival is supported by the Houston Arts Alliance, The Houston Endowment, Inc., Inprint, The National Endowment for the Arts, The Texas Commission on the Arts, and the University of Houston’s Department of English.