The First International Edible Book Hi-LowTea will be held on Saturday 1 April throughout the world depending upon the time zone involved. From 2- 4 p.m. in most places, the edible books will be exhibited and at 4 p.m., tea and/or coffee will be served and the �books� will be consumed. Venues are in Australia, in France at Graphes in Paris and Matiere Contact in Lyon, at the Argyle-Zebra Gallery in St. Paul, Minnesota; at the School of Art at Arizona State University in Tempe; at the Center for Book Arts in New York City; at Chax Press in Tucson, Arziona; at the Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts in Chicago, Illinois; at the home of Sara Rosenbluth�s in La Jolla along with the San Diego Book Arts group; at the Printer, Findlay, Ohio where even type lice will be featured; at the San Francisco Center for the Book; and at Crossroads School, Sam Francis Gallery in Santa Monica. At Mesa College in San Diego, the Book Arts Class will have an Edible Book event on 3 April (Monday morning). All in these various locales are invited to attend. Please see our website at http://www.geocities.com/books2eat and please take digital photographs and send them to the website so that our Web hostess, Beatrice Coron, the Eclectic Iconoclast, can post them after the event! In Los Angeles, the Edible Book High-Low Tea is featured in the LA Weekly as the Event of the Week, thanks to Peter Frank. Judith A. Hoffberg tel.: (310)399-1146 Umbrella/Umbrella Editions fax: (310)399-5070 P.O. Box 3640 Santa Monica CA 90408 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://colophon.com/journal http://www.geocities.com/books2eat/ Let a smile be your umbrella!

