Let’s Draw Dog Characters

Event date:
Saturday, May 30
Event time:
10:45am-11:15am
Location:
Berkeley Public Library, Story Room
Audiences:
Themes:
Booksales:
Medicine for Nightmares, on the 4th floor, near the stage
Access:
FREE

Big dogs, small dogs, happy dogs, scrappy dogs—let’s draw them all! Bethanie Murguia, author and illustrator of the graphic novel Wagnificent: A New Dog in the Den, will lead a fun and welcoming drawing workshop for all ages. Participants will leave with their own dynamic and charming dog characters.

Dan Alter

Dan Alter’s poems, reviews and translations have been published in journals including Field, Fourteen Hills, and Zyzzyva; his first collection My Little Book of Exiles won the 2022 Cowan Poetry Prize. A volume of translations Take a Breath, You’re Getting Excited, from the Hebrew of Yakir Ben-Moshe, was published by Ben Yehuda Press in September 2024, and Hills Full of Holes, a second collection of poems, by Fernwood Press in March 2025. He lives with his wife and daughter in Berkeley. He works at the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at UC Berkeley.

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