A NEW CHAPTER IN LITERARY FESTS

SATURDAY» Back in January, Denver’s Tattered Cover book store revealed it had partnered with the Colorado Book and Arts Festival. The family-friendly event folds music and visual art into a literary celebration with dozens of authors, noon-4 p.m. March 16 at the Arvada Center (6901 Wadsworth Blvd.). The event promises award-winning writers — including a keynote by “The Book of M” author Peng Shepherd — panels, an pop-up Tattered Cover book store, a children’s area with author-led activities, artist booths, musical performances, refreshments and more. Tickets are $5 for adults, $1 for kids 3-12, free for 3 and under; $15 festival and keynote conversation pass. If that sounds like an entirely pleasant way to while away Saturday afternoon, visit coloradobookandartsfest.com for the lineup and schedule.

Fact from fiction?

TUESDAY» There’s hardly a better time to discuss the role of deception in modern politics, technology and popular culture, but who’s got the right take? Kevin Young, the poetry editor for The New Yorker, is making a case for his perspective with “Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News,” which he’ll discuss with journalist on March 19 at the Scholar and Designer program (whew). The event begins at 6:30 p.m. on March 19 at the Mary Harris Auditorium,

1600 Pierce St. Tickets: $20 general admission; $10 for Lighthouse Writers Workshop members; $5 for students, veterans and teachers. Young, director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, is also holding a March 20 Lighthouse workshop for $65. lighthousewriters.org

Bidding farewell with “The Little Prince.”

THROUGH MAY

After 22 years