SparkleBlob had a rousing good time helping celebrate LitFest Los Angeles’s first annual 2017 season!
Lambda LitFest Los Angeles is a celebration of contemporary voices honoring and expanding on the rich, diverse tradition of LGBTQ writers and readers in the Southland.
There was music, dancing, cocktails, and CraftNight hosting a bookmark-making soiree at Akbar in Silverlake. Attendees could choose from a myriad of paper colors and styles, then trace a template to get the perfect bookmark size. Decorating and theming their bookmarks, they’d bring them up to the Craft Table to have them laminated by yours truly, using quadruple strength packing tape! After that, crafters tied colorful tassles to their creations and voila, durable, hefty bookmarks ready to save a spot in any story!
Here is Lambda Literary’s mission statement:
Lambda Literary believes Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer literature is fundamental to the preservation of our culture, and that LGBTQ lives are affirmed when our stories are written, published and read.
It was a real pleasure to hear authors and fans, readers and writers get together and speak about what inspires them. It was also fun to see some of them outside their comfort zone, making souvenirs with their own hands. What was especially sweet was watching people encourage each other to make bookmarks, and giving praise each other’s work. Everyone was generous to one another, some of the bookmarks were quite hilariously tawdry! It was a memorable, sparkly night, an auspicious start to LitFest LA’s emergence.
