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2020-2021 Schedule
- August through December Weekly Writer’s Studio classes for kids (every Wed from 4:00-4:30 EST) and for adults (every Friday from 1:00-1:30 EST
- August 3-21 Hold Carpe Diem Artventures
- August 30 Amato/Feffer Day-Long Novel-Writing Retreat
- Sept 21 Highpoint Academy Songwriting Zoom, 8th grade. Pasadena, CA
- Sept 23, Highpoint Academy Songwriting Zoom, 7th grade, Pasadena, CA
- September 26 Amato/Feffer Day-Long Novel-Writing Retreat
- November 1 Amato/Feffer Day-Long Novel-Writing Retreat
- Nov 11, Carroll County Library event Westminster, MD
- November 21 Amato/Feffer Day-Long Novel-Writing Retreat
- Dec 11 West Education Campus Online Workshop, AOBF 9 am.
- Jan 15 West Education Campus Online Workshop, AOBF 9 am.
- Jan 20 Drummond Area (WI) School District 3-6 grades, how to workshop.
- Feb 12 West Education Campus Online Workshop, AOBF 9 am.
- Feb 17 Drummond Area (WI) School District 3-6 grades, writing process workshop.
- TBA Lima Symphony Orchestra NEA-funded songwriting residency with 5th grades, dates TBA
- Mar 19 West Education Campus Online Workshop, AOBF 9 am.
- (NOTE DCPS Schools closed March 8-12 for spring break)
- April 16 West Education Campus Online Workshop, AOBF 9 am.
- May 14 West Education Campus Online Workshop, AOBF 9 am.
- (DCPS Schools end June 3)
Archive 2020 January-July
- January 6 Torch & Twang
- January 9 Dufief ES
- January 14 Easton ES, afternoon assemblies, Talbot County, MD
- January 14-19 Retreat Eastern Shore, MD
- January 28 Creating Character Workshops Full Day at Diamond ES, MD
- January 28 Private Creative Writing Lesson 4 pm
- January 29 SoHy Sing
- February 3 STEM Songwriting Residency, Rock Creek Forest
- February 4 STEM Songwriting Residency, Rock Creek Forest
- February 5 STEM Songwriting Residency, Rock Creek Forest
- February 5, 7-9 pm Inside the Blank Book II, PAAC
- February 6 STEM Songwriting Residency, Rock Creek Forest
- February 11 SoHy Sing
- February 12 DePauw University, Prof. Stasik, Children’s Literature Course Skype
9:30-9:45 and 12:45-1:00 EST - February 17 Torch & Twang
- February 18, private lesson
- Feb 20 CBG lecture, DC
- February 21 Meeting NG
- Feb 24, Poolesville ES
- February 26 SoHy Sing
- February 27, private lesson
- February 28 HIVE
- March 2 Torch & Twang
- March 3, private lesson
- March 5 Singing Performance for Carpe Diem Arts Family Fun Night Out at El Golfo at 5:45 and 6:45 pm
- March 25 Free Skype Day: Blue Bell ES (PA) 9 EST; Red Rock ES (MN) 11 EST
- April 18-24 Authors in April, Rochester, MI
- May 7 Maderich CESA 12, Ashland, WI Skypes
- May 8 An Open Book Foundation video
- May 27 Book Club Zoom
- June 5 free Zoom/Skype day
- June 6 Mulberry Jam
- June 10 Zoom Appearance 12:15 PST/3:15 EST
- June 18 CBG lecture, DC
- June 25-28 Hold ALA
- July 13, 15, 20, 22 Writing Workshops via Zoom for Libertyville, IL, branch library
- July 21 Pen/Faulkner and Horizons Greater Washington Presentation grades 4 and 5 from 1-2 pm Virtual
- July 27-31 Hold Gadget Lab camp
ARCHIVES: 2019 JAN-MAY Schedule (In Person and Skype Events)
- January 17 Guild meeting
- January 18 Diamond ES, Full Day Assembly and Workshops
- January 25, 10 am Audio Project Session
- January 26 HOLD Amato/Feffer One Day Writing Retreat CPAE
- January 28, Torch & Twang, TP, MD
- January 29 Strathmore meeting at 2pm
- January 29 Vocal/Uke Group Hyattsville 7:30 pm
- January 31 Brown Bag for Creatives 12:30-2pm
- February 1 Okay Cafe Song Circle, 7-10pm
- February 2, Recording Session Lucy McGee songs for Book 2
- February 4 Rock Creek Valley Follow Up Workshops
- February 8, HIVE
- February 9 PAAC Hyball
- February 10, Recording session with Nico, Lucy McGee Book 2
- February 11 HOLD as make-up day for Rock Creek Valley in case of Snow.
- February 17, Silencio Blanco, UMD 3 pm
- February 19, Vocal/Uke Group Hyattsville 7:30 pm
- February 20, Recording Session Lucy McGee songs for Book 2
- February 21 Guild meeting
- February 22 Hyattsville Library meeting H.Jackson, 2 pm
- February 25, Torch & Twang, TP, MD
- February 28 Brown Bag for Creatives
- March 3 Axtmann Open Studio, Music performance, 3-6 pm TP, MD
- March 5 Songwriting Workshops, 3rd grade, Stedwick ES, Montgomery Village, MD
- March 8 HIVE
- March 8 Okay Cafe Song Circle, 7-10pm
- March 13 Sussex Avenue School, Morristown NJ
- March 14 North End School, afternoon visit, Cedar Grove, NJ
- March 14 South End School, morning visit, Cedar Grove, NJ
- March 15 Breakfast meeting CH, Noon meetings HH, NYC
- March 16 Watchung Booksellers Storytime book signing and sing-along 10:30 am, Montclair, NJ
- March 18, Torch & Twang, TP, MD
- March 21 Brown Bag for Creatives
- March 21 Guild Evening Meeting
- March 26, Vocal/Uke Group Hyattsville 7:30 pm
- March 30, Uke making at Gadgetlab
- April 11 Children’s Book Guild meeting
- April 11 Private Creative Writing lesson 7-8 pm
- April 12 HIVE
- April 12 Okay Cafe, 7-10pm
- April 15, Blair HS YA Writing Festival, Silver Spring, MD
- April 21, Proof Meeting, 2 pm, MD
- April 22, Torch & Twang, TP, MD
- April 22, Rehearsal 2:30 pm
- April 23 St. Stephen’s and St. Agnes School
- April 23 Vocal/Uke Group Hyattsville 7:30 pm
- April 25 Skype Day; West Shore Middle School (CT) 9:00 am; Union School 9:30 am; CESA 12 Ashland WI 11:30 and 12:15; Red Rock ES (MN) 1:45pm
- April 25 Private Creative Writing Lesson 7-8 pm
- April 27 DC Author Fest Structuring the Novel workshop at Library of Congress
- April 28 HOLD Singing Paint Branch
- May 2 Maryland Library Association MD Author Award Luncheon and Breakout
- May 3 MLA
- May 5 National Gallery of Art Writing Workshop 1:00 pm
- May 8 Meeting JM Audio books
- May 9 Brown Bag
- May 11 Guild Non-fiction Award luncheon.
- May 17 Meeting CHannigan; 12:30 pm
- May 20 Meeting MDahbi; 2:00 pm
- May 21 Meeting PWM 10 am
- May 21 Vocal/Uke Group Hyattsville 7:30 pm
- May 28 Beauvoir Teacher Workshops 8:30-11:30 am
- May 30-June 2 SCBWI Mid-Atlantic Novel Revision Retreat
- June 4 Sing with Me, Lucy McGee launch
- June 4 Mary Amato Takes Over Holiday House Instagram
- June 5 An Open Book Foundation event AM
- June 9 Research,KPA Musical, Arlington, VA
- June 10 Private meeting MD and BG
- June 13 Performance Riverdale Park Farmer’s Market
- June 15 Research, Venus Theater, Laurel, MD
- June 16 Father’s Day Open Mic & Launch Party, Lucy McGee, Hyattsville, MD
- June 17 Torch & Twang
- June 17 Private Lesson M&M
- June 20 ALA Cleveland Park Library Book Buzz
- June 21 ALA Holiday House Reception, National Press Club
- June 23 ALA Signing of Sing with Me Lucy, McGee, Convention Center 11:30-12:00
- June 23 ALA Banquet
- June 24 Research, Joe’s Movement, Mt. Rainier
- June 27 Guitar Notes Skype with SF summer school 1:30 pm EST
- July 3 Private Lesson M&M
- July 8 Private Lesson M&M
- July 10 PAAC Inside the Blank Book, 6-8 pm
- July 15 CBG Meeting
- July 15 Private Lesson M&M
- July 16 Auction Lesson
- July 20 Bidlack Retreat
- July 21 PAAC Writing the Illustrated Book, 12-2 pm
- July 22 Torch & Twang
- July 23 Private Lesson M&M
- July 25 PAAC Writing the Illustrated Book, 6-8 pm
- July 30 Kennedy Center research
- July 31 Private Rehearsal for Lucy McGee5:30-6:30 pm
- August 3-4 Bidlack Retreat
- August 5-9 Carpe Diem Arts Camp
- August 6 St. Michael’s Branch Library, 10 am St. Michael’s, MD
- August 6 Seaford District Library and Cultural Center Program, 2:00 pm; Seaford, DE
- August 12-16 Gadget Lab Uke Camp
- August 18-25 NYC trip Sendak research Morgan Library
- August 26 Torch & Twang
- August 29 Rehearsal Lucy McGee
- August 31 National Book Festival appearance Washington Post KidsPost booth 1:00 pm
- Sept 4 CDA phone meeting 4:30 pm
- Sept 10 SoHy Sing
- Sept 14 Hyattsville Porch Fest
- Sept 15 HIVE 2-6 pm planning and 6-7 dinner, MD (KG/DF)
- Sept 18 private lesson 7-8 pm
- Sept 19 CBG lecture, DC
- Sept 21-22-23 Torch & Twang Retreat
- Sept 25 Lunch meeting Cap Hill, RK
- Sept 24 SoHy Sing
- Sept 27-29 Albuquerque Ukulele Festival
- Sept 30-October 6 Research
- Oct 7 MCPS Big Learning Showcase 7:00 pm
- Oct 8 SoHy Sing
- October 9 Pen/Faulkner Writers in Schools programs 10 and 1 pm; 5th grades West Education Campus (O.Wolf); DC
- October 10-12 ILA in New Orleans
- October 17-18 Roanoke
- Oct 21 CK appointment 12:00
- Oct 21 Torch & Twang session
- Oct 22 2:20 apptment phone KC
- Oct 22 SoHy Sing
- October 23 Exploring the Antagonist, College Park Arts Exchange, MD
- Oct 25 HIVE
- October 26 Half Day Writing Retreat CPAE
- Oct 28 Workshop Days with MC in UP
- October 30 Exploring the Antagonist, College Park Arts Exchange, MD
- November 1 National Press Club National Press Club’s 42nd Annual Book Fair & Authors’ Night, in partnership with Politics and Prose
- November 4 Torch & Twang session
- November 5 TUES SoHy Sing
- Nov 7 Singing RPFM Farmer’s Market
- Nov 13 HOLD Bannockburn ES (TBD)
- Nov 13, Exploring the Antagonist, College Park Arts Exchange, MD
- Nov 14 CBG lecture, DC
- Nov 15 HIVE
- November 18 Torch & Twang session
- November 19 11:30 Mystery Writing with 3rd graders St Stephens and St Agnes, Alexandria, VA
- November 20 WED SoHy Sing
- November 21-24 HOLD NCTE in Baltimore Workshops: November 21 and 25-26
- Dec 3, 4:30 private lesson
- Dec 4 SoHy Sing
- Dec 5 KPA Skypes with Brumfield ES
- Dec 10, 4:30 private lesson
- December 13 Sipsey Middle School Skypes K.Borden
- December 14 Takoma Book Fair 2-5, Busboys & Poets
- December 16 Torch & Twang session
- Dec 17, 4:30 private lesson
- December 17 SoHy Sing
- Dec 20 HIVE
ARCHIVES: 2018 Schedule (In Person and Skype Events)
- January 15, T&T Uke & Voice Lessons, Takoma Park, MD
- January 16, CDA Uke & Voice Lessons
- January 18, Children’s Book Guild Lunch, Neal Porter
- January 22, HIVE Uke & Voice PG
- January 23, CDA Uke & Voice Lessons
- January 24, Writing Group
- January 25, Artist Lunch
- January 29 (hold 30), Rock Creek Valley Residency, MD
- January 29, T&T Uke & Voice Lessons, Takoma Park, MD
- January 30, CDA Uke & Voice Lessons
- February 2, Hive
- February 2, Maryland Public Television Airdate: 7:30 pm ArtWorks Reading
- February 5, HIVE Uke & Voice
- February 6, CDA Uke & Voice Lessons
- February 7, Writing Group
- February 9, Free Skype Day: West Shore Middle School (CT); Onalaska Middle School (WI); Grey Cloud ES (MN); Joseph Williams ES (FL); River Bend MS (VA); Red Rock ES (MN); Harborside Middle School (CT)
- February 10, Monologues and Dialogues, College Park Arts Exchange
- February 15, Children’s Book Guild lunch
- February 19 Hive Uke & Voice
- February 20 (hold 22), Rock Creek Valley Residency Follow-up, MD
- Feb 26, T&T Uke & Voice Lessons, Takoma Park, MD
- February 28, Writing Group
- March 1 Potomac Elementary Songwriting Residency (see below)
- March 3, College Park Library Book Fair
- March 5, 6, 7 Potomac Elementary Songwriting Residency
- March 5, HIVE Uke & Voice
- March 9, Hive
- March 11, Wolves viewing
- March 15, Children’s Book Guild meeting
- March 16, Potomac ES assemblies
- March 18, Songwriting 101 through Carpe Diem Arts, 3-5 pm
- March 22, Thomas Circle Concert performance
- March 27 Business lunch MHS in Brookland
- March 28 Essay on Teen Library Toolbox
- March 29, Audio meeting
- March 30 Gateway Artists Breakfast
- April 6, CBG dinner
- April 7, Children’s Book Guild Award Lunch
- April 9, Meetings NYC
- April 11, Diamond ES
- April 19, Business lunch in TP
- April 23, Skype Workshops, Ashland, WI
- May 1, SSSA, Mystery Writing Workshop, St. Stephens & St. Agnes, Alexandria, VA
- May 3, Interview with Children’s Corner blogger Karen MacPherson
- May 3, Open Mic Archie Edwards Blues Foundation
- May 7 HIVE
- May 11-13, private booking.
- May 17, Children’s Book Guild
- May 24, Skype with Boys’ Book Club, Sparta Book Club (NJ) 6:30-6:50 pm.
- May 30 and 31, BEA for Lucy launch
- June 7, Meeting P&P DS and Company
- June 14, Children’s Book Guild
- June 22, Meeting with copyeditor TP, MD
- June 26, Rights Meeting HH
- June 28, Performance Songwriting Trio, 4-7 pm RPFM, Riverdale, MD
- July 1, Open Mic for my students
- July 5, Meeting for Band arrangements
- July 11, Meeting P&P NG
- July 16-18, Write-a-thon M&M, Hyattsville, MD
- July 28 Meeting for Lucy songs, Bethesda, MD.
- August 2, Kidlit Author Night
- August 6-10, Make Your Own Uke camp at Gadgetlab
- September 2018 Release of Open Mic Night at Westminster Cemetery, CarolRhoda Lab
- September 15 Porchfest Hyattsville Performance
- September 15 OMN Private Book Event
- September 12, 19 Songwriting Classes CPAE
- September 20 Guild meeting
- September 21, National Press Club EPE RW
- October 2, Private Group Teaching, TP, MD
- HOLD October 6-8 NAIBA Baltimore
- October 12 HIVE
- October 15-19 LUCY Book Tour
- October 15 The Country Bookshop (Southern Pines, NC) – daytime school visits, 4:00 pm in-store event
- October 16 Bookmarks (Winston-Salem, NC) – daytime school visits, 5:30 pm school bookfair event (off-site)
- October 17 Page 158 Books (Wake Forest, NC) – daytime school visits, 6:00 pm in-store event
- October 18 Quail Ridge Books (Raleigh, NC) – daytime school visits
- October 18 bbgb (Richmond, VA) – 5:00 pm school bookfair event
- October 19 bbgb (Richmond, VA) – daytime school visits
- October 21-31 Research
- November 2, National Press Club Book Fair, Lucy McGee, 5:30-8:30 pm
- November 3, Hooray for Books, NanowriMo mini workshop, 6 pm
- November 4 Hockessin Bookshelf (Hockessin, DE) – 4:00 pm book signing of Open Mic Night followed by a 4:30 pm signing of Lucy McGee.
- November 8, Private Lesson 9:45-11:45 am.
- November 10, Book Party at My Dead Aunt’s Books in Hyattsville, MD 5-7 pm
- November 12 Skype Brumfield ES with Kid Pan Alley project
- November 15 pre-lecture Guild meeting and Guild lecture
- November 19, 7:30 pm Uke Class
- November 26, 7:30 pm Uke Class
- November 28, December 5, December 12, Songwriting Classes CPAE.
- November 30, HIVE
- December 1, Greenbelt Festival of Lights 10 am-1 pm
- December 1, Chicken of the Family Dance in AZ
- December 12, 2:45 Skype Franklin High School, MA
- December 12 HOLD Carpe Diem Arts, Civic Center, SS, MD
- December 15 HOLD Takoma Book Fair, Busboys & Poets, TP, MD
- December 17, 7:30 pm Uke Class
- December 21, HIVE
ARCHIVES: 2017 Schedule (In Person and Skype Events)
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- January 27, Play Writing Workshop, Woodrow Wilson High School DC, 4-6 pm. Kick-off to Play-in-a-Day Festival
- February 16, Children’s Book Guild Luncheon
- February 20, Strathmore Play Writing Workshop with Blue Sky
- March 8, Attending National Gallery of Art workshop on empathy
- March 16, Children’s Book Guild Luncheon
- March 17, Riversdale Museum meeting
- March 21, recording session Carpe Diem & Ukes on the Move at Revels
- March 27, High Point Academy, LA area
- March 28 South Pasadena Middle School and LA area
- March 30, lunch Gotham
- April 5-6 Children’s Institute (ABA); Portland, OR
- April 21 Beverly Farms ES full day
- April 27, Vocals gig with Cletus Kennelly at Mediterranean Cafe, Mount Rainier
- April 29, Children’s Book Guild Luncheon
- April 30, Seeger House concert Carpe Diem
- May 1,2,3 Charlottesville, VA, songwriting residency through Dave Matthews Band grant
- May 5, DC biz lunch
- May 18, Children’s Book Guild Luncheon
- May 23, Hold for lunch author Erica Perl
- May 25, Diamond ES, Gaithersburg, MD
- May 25, Riverdale Park Farmer’s Market, uke and vocals
- May 30, 31 Capitol Hill Montessori Residency
- June 2, Skype to celebrate One Book One School reading of Edgar Allan’s Official C.I. Notebook, Enfield, CT
- June 8, Hyattsville Elementary School, 3rd grade assembly
- June 9, East Silver Spring ES
- June 11 Books in Bloom, Downtown Columbia Book Festival, Symphony Woods, Columbia, MD
- June 15, Children’s Book Guild Luncheon
- June 24 Diary Writing Workshop, Regency Ladies’ Weekend, Riversdale Museum
- June 27, Meeting with CPAE, College Park, MD
- July 3, Meeting with Collab, Takoma Park, MD
- July 10-13 Hands on History Week, Riversdale Museum, ages 8-12.
- July 17-21 Carpe Diem on the Shore
- August 5, Writer’s Notebook Workshop, Pyramid Atlantic Arts Center
- August 7-11, Make-a-Uke Camp with Uke Lessons, GadgetLab
- August 20, Private Nemesis Workshop
- August 26, Students Performance Party
- August 30, Ukes on the Move performance, Veterans Plaza
- August, 18, Sept 1, Sept 22, Private Lessons 4:15 pm
- ONGOING Torch and Twang Uke Class Jan. 16,30, Feb 6,13,20 March 13, April 3, 24, May 8, June 5, June 22, July 3, August 21, August 28
- September 9, Green Expo, Hyattsville, Music Performance 10:30-11:00 am.
- September 10, Private Songwriting Workshop
- September 13-17 SCBWI WI Conference
- September 20, Carpe Diem Arts lunch
- September 23, DC Readers Appreciation Lunch, DCPL
- September 26-October 10 Research Block
- October 16, Skype Sipsey Middle School
- October 17, Maryland Public Television taping for Words Pop-up on Artworks
- October 19 Rocky Run Middle School, VA
- October 27, Ask an Author Pop-up, Pyramid Atlantic Arts Center, MD
- October 29, Singing, Remembrance Service, Washington Ethical Society
- November 2, KPA Skype
- November 7, Meeting with Gayle Danley
- November 6,13,20,27 Humor Writing Class for adults through CPAE, 7-9 pm
- November 15, Editorial meetings in NYC
- November 16, Thomas Jefferson ES, Morristown, NJ-17
- November 17, Alexander Hamilton ES, Morristown, NJ
- November 29, KPA Skypes with Brumfield ES, VA
- November 30, Assemblies Jones Lane ES, North Potomac, MD
- December 4, Skype Union School, CT
- December 8, Private lesson
- December 12, Hold Skype, Bells Elementary, Bells, TX
Previous Appearances are archived here.
