2025-08-07T09:54:43-07:00 2024-09-30 204994635 Iryna AC 1000 Broadway Ste 200-C Oakland CA 94607 990 2023-10-01 473955286 Foundation for the Future of Literature and Literacy dba Bay Area Book Festival FOUN 5102208140 1569 Solano Avenue 635 Berkeley CA 94707 George Rehm Treasurer 2025-08-06 true true Kostyantyn Oreshkov EA P00923916 5104679506 2023 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z Brooke Warner 1569 Solano Avenue 635 Berkeley CA 94707 537373 false X www.baybookfest.org X 2015 CA The organization's mission is to produce high-caliber, free and affordable literary and literacy programs for Northern California residents and visitors. 5 4 4 250 0 778987 478642 90879 57503 1400 1228 0 871266 537373 0 0 313039 94181 0 10200 600465 429902 913504 524083 -42238 13290 90408 106591 2138 5031 88270 101560 The Bay Area Book Festival celebrates a wide spectrum of literary voices, nurtures literary culture and community, cultivates literacy, and promotes great literary work, with special attention to work that engages with pressing social issues.We carry out our mission by creating relevant, thoughtful programming that we present at an annual, inclusive, weekend literary festival and in year-round literary events. The Festival features dozens of keynotes, interviews, panels and performances by hundreds of notable writers across literary genres and backgrounds. The festival also includes a robust outdoor fair with hundreds of literary exhibitors and a range of childrens activities. false false 461637 57503 The Bay Area Book Festival celebrated its 10th anniversary June 1-2 in downtown Berkeley. Attendees were treated to top-tier speakers the festival is known to showcase as well as new attractions, including a full day of workshops for emerging writers, four headliner events, a reimagined outdoor fair in the park (Sunday only), and our inaugural Native California stage. Except for evening headliners at Freight & Salvage, the festival was presented free to the public. Most indoor programs were at or near capacity in terms of attendance, with the reconfigured outdoor fair in the park drawing rave reviews as well as its largest attendance ever. Overall, the festival drew an estimated attendance of 10,000 people from all over the region. Among the 200 authors presented in 2024, headliners included the incomparable Joan Baez, cultural commentator Naomi Klein, and a trio of book-to-screen superstars (Viet Thanh Nguyen, Piper Kerman, and Alka Joshi). Free programming featured nearly 100 speakers, including Jonathan Lethem, Amy Tan, Steve Phillips and Forrest Gander, and rising stars like Tommy Orange, R.O. Kwon, and poet Brontez Purnell.Writers Day Saturday, June 1The festivals first-ever Writers Day offered free writing workshops for emerging and published writers 461637 true true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true 32 0 true 4 true false false false false false true true false 0 false false false false false false false X 5 4 false false false false false false false true true false false true true true true true true true true false CA X X Shasta Production Services 5105504200 785 7th Street Oakland CA 94607 Aya de Leon Prog. 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Our FY 2023-24 Board president/chair Brooke Warner has since stepped down. Our organization did not have an Executive Director in FY 23-24, with the Managing Director temporarily assuming some of those duties. Once signed and filed, the completed Form 990 is retained in the official archives for the Board and organization. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c Typically, the Founder/Executive Director and Board President monitor activity. Any potential conflicts of interest are discussed with Board members individually and/or as part of official meetings of the Board. In FY 2023-24, the organization did not have an Executive Director; the Managing Director temporarily assumed this function. No such conflicts have been observed in FY 2023-24 or any fiscal year since the organizations inception. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15a The Board, meeting in executive session, carefully reviewed the information turned up in our examination of comparable compensation at similar organizations and set a middle course between the highest and lowest levels of comparable compensation. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 Available upon request.