2024 SPECIAL EVENTS
10:00 a.m. onward, Saturday, April 20, Top Ten Wines
Every year Unbound brings some of the most talented poets in the country to Columbia to perform their work. All day on Saturday you can stop by Top Ten Wines on Ninth Street and listen to wonderful poets read from their work in a cozy and intimate setting. A glass of wine (or two) is optional, of course, but, well, why wouldn’t you?
10:00 – 10:45 a.m., Saturday, April 20, Daniel Boone Regional Library
Alan Gratz is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of 19 novels and graphic novels for young readers, including Two Degrees, Captain America: The Ghost Army, Ground Zero, Refugee, Allies, Prisoner B-3087, and Ban This Book. A Knoxville, Tennessee, native, Alan is now a full-time writer living in Asheville, North Carolina, with his wife and daughter.
1:30 p.m. –2:30 p.m., Saturday, April 20, Little Ragtag
Author Jon Langmead presents his vastly entertaining history, Ballyhoo! The Roughhousers, Con Artists, and Wildmen Who Invented Professional Wrestling. The book chronicles the colorful stories of not just the wrestlers themselves, but also the promoters who changed wrestling from a rough sport practiced on farms and at town gatherings to the melodramatic mass entertainment as we now know it. Expect outlandish stories, unlikely heroes, and some good old-fashioned villainy, too. Tremendous, rollicking fun, and also extremely informative. What more could you possibly want? Spandex costumes? The format will be a spirited Q&A led by Robert Greene, Filmmaker-in-Chief at the Murray Center for Documentary Journalism (and avowed fan of professional wrestling). Sponsored by the University of Missouri Press.
5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m., Saturday April 20, Ridgeline
Under the guidance of Lara Lehman, the Kewpie Poets Society (from Hickman High School) has been meeting to compose and study poetry and to encourage each other in their creative writing endeavors. Come and listen to a group reading by the society’s members, and hear the fruits of all their hard work. If previous year’s performances are anything to go by, you’ll be moved, delighted, and entertained!
7 p.m., Sunday April 21, Ragtag Cinema
Bonnie Jo Campbell’s extraordinary 2012 novel, Once Upon A River, was adapted for the screen into a movie of the same name. As our final event of the weekend, Ragtag is screening the film, which will be followed by a Q-and-A with the author. Usual ticket prices for Ragtag movies will apply to this event.