Make Your Own Secret Codes!

Event date:
Saturday, May 30
Event time:
12:15pm-12:45pm
Location:
Berkeley Public Library, Story Room
Audiences:
Booksales:
Medicine for Nightmares, on the 4th floor, near the stage
Access:
FREE

Want to write secret messages that only your friends can read? The team behind the fantasy spy graphic novel Agent Cupcake, Triple Dream Comics (a.k.a. Lauren Davis, Mel Hilario, and Katie Longua), will teach you how to make your own secret codes! We’ll start by learning the same simple cipher used by Julius Caesar (and how to use a cipher wheel), then how to make your secret codes even more secure using code words, and finally, how to design symbols so you can make a secret code that’s unique to you!

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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