Last Thursday saw a fundraising soiree to kick off LitFest Pasadena, a literary festival coming to Pasadena next St. Patrick’s Day. Attendance (and funds received) exceeded the organizers’ hopes, and enthusiasm for the day-long, family-friendly, book-loving festival ran very high indeed. Here are a few photos from the Castle Green happening.
Berick Treidler, "Helen of Pasadena" author Lian Dolan, and writer and LitFest organizer Larry Wilson
- Gallery Girl founder Jennifer Fabos Patton, Olivia Lopez and Dave Snyder
- Brad Balthiel, Carol and Kevin Bourland
- Mariah Young, author Denise Hamilton and writer Jonathan Gold
- Reseda Mickey
- Marissa Gomez of the Ghosts of Echo Park
- Petrea Burchard of Pasadena Daily Photo, Pasadena Public Information Officer Ann Erdman, and Pasadena Public Library Management Director Jan Sanders
- Poet Ron Koertge read from his “Making Love to Roget’s Wife”
- Gallery Girls Tsehaie and Alma Cielo
[...] RSS feed for updates on this topic.We covered LitFest Pasadena’s first fundraiser way back in October. Round two is set for this Sunday, and should be a decidedly less racy affair: school kids singing [...]