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Monday, March 6, 2017

		Start Date	End Date	Start Time	End Time
Peachtree Happy Hour		3/6/2017	3/6/2017	4:30 PM	6:30 PM	3/6/2017 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM Presenter: Peachtree Publishers 4:30 – Gather in Crowne Plaza Hotel Lobby 4:45 – Bus leaves hotel for Peachtree Publishers 40th Anniversary Party 5:30-6:30 – Peachtree Happy Hour Sponsored by Atlanta's own Peachtree Publishers, celebrating 40 years of fine publishing.
Okra Dinner		3/6/2017	3/6/2017	7:30 PM	9:00 PM	3/6/2017 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM Presenter: Gina Kolata, Joshilyn Jackson, Michael Knight, Patti Callahan Henry, Taylor Brown 7:30-9 – Okra Dinner Bogart/Hepburn Gina Kolata, Mercies in Disguise, St. Martin’s Press Joshilyn Jackson, Almost Sisters, Morrow Avon Micheal Knight, Eveningland, Atlantic Monthly Press Patti Callahan Henry,The Bookshop at Water's End, Berkley Trade Paperback Original Taylor Brown, The River of Kings, St. Martin’s Press Dinner with three current Okra Pick authors, plus Atlanta-based favorites Joshilyn Jackson and Patti Callahan Henry!
Indies Forward Meet Up in the Hotel Bar		3/6/2017	3/6/2017	9:30 PM	11:00 PM	3/6/2017 9:30 PM - 11:00 PM

Tuesday, March 7, 2017

		Start Date	End Date	Start Time	End Time
Breakfast		3/7/2017	3/7/2017	9:30 AM	10:00 AM	3/7/2017 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Discovery Show Table Topics 1		3/7/2017	3/7/2017	10:00 AM	10:50 AM	3/7/2017 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM If you could change something about the SIBA Discovery Show, what would it be? Join your fellow booksellers and book industry professionals for a day of brainstorming about the future direction of the Show. Three seperate sessions throughout the day means three chances to air your ideas in three different areas. Imagination in encouraged. Bring all your dreams -- big and small. DISCOVERY SHOW TABLE TOPICS Location & Time of year Format/Timeframe Education Exhibits Author events Consumer segment Fresh ideas
Discovery Show Table Topics 2		3/7/2017	3/7/2017	11:00 AM	11:50 PM	3/7/2017 11:00 AM - 11:50 PM
Discovery Show Table Topics 3		3/7/2017	3/7/2017	12:00 PM	12:50 PM	3/7/2017 12:00 PM - 12:50 PM
ABA Forum Lunch & Education		3/7/2017	3/7/2017	1:00 PM	4:00 PM	3/7/2017 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM Bookstores - An Inclusive Place for Dialogue and Discovery In the current environment, customers are increasingly coming to bookstores for connection and communication, as well as for sources of a diverse range of voices and viewpoints. At the upcoming ABA Spring Forum in Atlanta, GA, in response to member bookstore feedback and requests, ABA will be hosting a conversation led by ABA Board Member Jamie Fiocco where booksellers will share ideas and brainstorm about how bookstores can foster communication and create opportunities for people of diverse backgrounds to express and respond to differing views in the welcoming setting of a bookstore. This will not be a traditional education session. It is designed to be an interactive discussion, where booksellers will be able to participate in open communication and problem solving -- in both large and small groups -- to clarify strategies for strengthening the unique role that bookstores play in their communities.

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The Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance is a trade association which represents hundreds of bookstores and thousands of booksellers in Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana, Alabama, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, and Mississippi.
SIBA exists to empower, promote, and celebrate our core member bookstores in a spirit of partnership. "Core members" are independent, privately held, brick and mortar, commercially zoned bookstores with a retail storefront, in our region.

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