Russell & Holmes Day, Nashville
Event description
Russell & Holmes Day
Tuesday, August 27, Nashville, TN
Just before Bouchercon starts up, an all-day Russell & Holmes do at the Gaylord Opryland Resort. Bouchercon is the big mystery conference that moves around the US (and occasionally elsewhere)
Plans for the Day
Food matters: Continental breakfast, afternoon snack, no-host lunch (time to stretch your legs & chat)
Sessions include:
Honeytree Meadery & Apiary talk about about their full-cycle relationship with bees, from hive to honey to brewing—and why they think Sherlock Holmes studied bees.
Andrew Gulli, editor of The Strand Magazine, talks about Sherlock Holmes and discovering new stories by all kinds of authors.
Costume designer Ciciley Hoffman shows us what Russell, Holmes, and others in the stories would have actually worn during their adventures.
Two Friends of Russell show their travels, in the footsteps of Mary Russell
Laurie R. King talking to some long-time fans about The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, her life in writing, and where she & Russell are going next
And…
Beekeeper Bingo—with prizes!
Exclusive giveaways & swag including: The Russell and Holmes Times, Nashville: A Newspaper Celebrating “The Beekeeper’s Apprentice” Anniversary Meetups, written and produced by Laurie just for this event. Also, special reprints, art work, and Beekeeper swag you won’t find anywhere else.
Plus, plenty of chat with Laurie and your fellow Friends of Russell
Hotel: If you’re attending Bouchercon (we hope you do!) the conference rate applies for Tuesday night. BUT NOTE: Please don’t book a conference-rate room if you’re not registered, since the hotel may check and recalculate your cost at check-in.
Places available: 100
Cost: $190. Please note: any profits will go to the Bouchercon reading charity. Full refund up to 2 weeks before, after that we will refund if we can fill your place from the waiting list.
Speakers
Andrew Gulli has been the editor of the revived Strand Magazine since 1999. He has published hundreds of new and established mystery writers, and in his role as literary sleuth, has discovered and published previously unknown stories by masters ranging from Tennessee Williams, Ernest Hemingway, and John Steinbeck to James M. Cain and Joseph Heller. He uncovered fifteen previously unknown short stories by Dashiell Hammett, a J.M. Barrie play spoofing Sherlock Holmes, an H.G. Wells ghost story, and a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Ciciley Hoffman is an award-winning costume designer, wardrobe stylist, image consultant, and fashion editor who designs costumes for film, television, and music videos, advises for fashion brands, and consults with artists and recording artists, creating looks from rock to vintage, avant garde to country, haute couture to period, and everything in between. She volunteers with Fashion Is for Every Body, committed to normalizing inclusion in life through the art of fashion. She is an embroiderer and vintage enthusiast with extensive knowledge of the history of fashion, clothing customs, and construction. She holds BA degrees from Oberlin College in Theatre and German Studies with Honors, with an enduring interest in cats and hats. www.cicileyhoffman.com
Honeytree Meadery of Nashville is both an apiary and a meadery: they keep bees, and they use the honey to make a series of fabulous and creative meads (honey wines.) What is so fascinating about bees? How does living with them teach us about our place in the world? Sherlock Holmes would know—and so our speakers from Honeytree. As they say, “At Honeytree Meadery, it starts with the bees and ends with a buzz.”