Contact the Traverse City Motherbaby Film Fest! Email Michelle
Traverse City, October 15th - 17th 2008 
Closing Night Gala: October 17th, 7-8:30 pm at COH
Local fare from Oryana Food Cooperative, beer from Right Brain Brewery, soda from Northwoods Soda Co. , coffee from Great Northern Roasting Co. art by Hitching Post, cake from All Cakes, treats from Pleasanton Bakery and chocolate from Charles Layton. great fun for all your senses! Plus Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein honored! Tickets available online and at the door are $15 and includes free drink.
Festival Book Store
Located at the Gala Event, October 17th
View and purchase many of the books that inspired the making of these films and some by author filmmakers. Books will be signed by visiting authors at the Gala!
Gala Event Authors and Booksigning
Located at the Gala Event, October 17th.
For detailed Author Biography Info see this PDF.
The authors below will be represented at the booksigning. Visit blogspot for more author info:
Mickey Sperlich - Survivor Moms-Women’s Stories of Birthing, Mothering and Healing after Sexual Abuse
Marsden Wagner - 1) Creating Your Birth Plan 2) Born in the USA
Shonda Parker - 1) Naturally Healthy Pregnancy2) Naturally Healthy Woman
Charlotte DeVries – Official Lamaze Guide: Giving Birth With Confidence
Ray DeVries- 1) A Pleasing Birth 2) Making Midwives Legal 3) Birth by Design
Robbie Davis Floyd 1) Mainstreaming Midwives 2) Birth as an American Rite of Passage
Jennie Joseph - Beautiful! Images of Health, Joy and Vitality in Pregnancy and Birth.
Suzanne Arms – 1) Immaculate Deception II 2) Giving Birth (DVD)
Barbara Katz Rothman 1) Encyclopedia of Childbearing 2) In Labor: Women and Power in the Birthplace 3) Recreating Motherhood
Jennifer Block – 1) Pushed (paperback) 2) Pushed (hardcover)
Carol Leonard - Lady’s Hands, Lion’s Heart: A Midwife’s Saga
Shari Maser – Blessingways
Janice Marsh Prelesnik – The Roots of Natural Mothering