CFVI to Represent USVI at National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. on August 24

The Community Foundation of the Virgin Islands (CFVI)

The Community Foundation of the Virgin Islands (CFVI), which serves as the Library of Congress’s Center for the Book, U.S. Virgin Islands affiliate, is representing the territory for the third straight year at the 2024 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C., this Saturday, Aug. 24. The event, which is free and open to the public, will take place from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.

The festival’s theme this year, “Books Build Us Up,” explores how reading can help connect us and inform our lives. It’s through books that readers can develop strong bonds with writers and their ideas — relationships that open the entire world, real or imagined, to us all.