You can pick up your Big Read Reader's & Audio Guides and bookmarks for the book Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich in the gift shop of the Bayou Terrebonne Waterlife Museum, Tuesday-Friday 10am-5pm and Saturdays 12-4pm. While you are there, take the museum tour that preserves and promotes the area’s long, colorful, and historically important cultural and economic ties with the seafood and water transportation industries, as well as other wetlands and water-based hunting, gathering, and mining occupations. The entire museum showcases the local population's Francophone heritage, even including an introduction video in French (or English, if preferred).
Event Location: 7910 W. Park Ave., Houma, LA, 70360
Zora Hurston and the Chinaberry Tree will be featured in this bilingual storytime for children.
Event Location: Mission Branch Library, 3861 Mission Ave, Oceanside, CA, 92058
In a partnership with the Department of Cultural Affairs, Cal Arts and SONY Pictures, young people ages 13 to 15 enroll in media arts classes offered throughout Los Angeles. Youth will learn film animation and computer editing techniques, and read the book "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston. Each site will create its own short film version inspired by the novel. A selection of the final short films will be shown to the public at the culminating Big Read event film screening at a local theater. The Sony Pictures Media Arts Program is offered at the following locations: Banning’s Landing 100 East Water Street Wilmington, CA 91303 Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock 2225 Colorado Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90041 San Fernando Gardens Community Service Center 10896 Lehigh Avenue Pacoima, CA 91331 Charles Mingus Youth Arts Center 10620 Graham Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90002 William Reagh Los Angeles Photography Center 2332 West Fourth Street Los Angeles, CA 90057
Event Location: various (see listing below)
Milwaukee Repertory Theater will produce the stage adaptation of "To Kill a Mockingbird" on our Quadracci Powerhouse Stage. The adaptation is written by Christopher Sergel and will be directed by Aaron Posner One of the most beloved and beautifully compassionate stories ever written comes to breathtaking life on stage. Set in small-town Alabama during the Depression, and seen with brilliant clarity through the eyes of a young tomboy, this Pulitzer Prize-winning tale is about innocence, tolerance, family and the courage to live what you believe. Go to www.milwaukeerep.com for tickets!
Event Location: 108 E Wells Street, Milwaukee, WI, 53202-3504
Join us for The Rep In Depth, our lively informative half-hour talk which starts 45 minutes before every performance of "To Kill a Mockingbird"!
Event Location: 108 E Wells Street, Milwaukee, WI, 53202-3504
Private Eyes: First Friday kick-off for The Big Read 2012: Coastal Georgia Reads The Maltese Falcon. Fun "detective" contest throughout downtown businesses, exhibit opening, distribution of books and support materials, free film at 8 pm.
Event Location: 1530 Newcastle Street, Brunswick, GA, 31520
Book cover art from classic hard-boiled fiction of the 1920s-1950s and posters from films noir and crime movies of the 1940s and 1950s. Opening reception during Big Read Kick Off February 3, 5 to 8 pm.
Event Location: Ritz Theatre Gallery, 1530 Newcastle Street, Brunswick, GA, 31520
Members of the McIntosh Art Association interpret the novel through visual media. Opening reception Friday, February 3, 5 to 7 pm.
Event Location: McIntosh Art Association, Darien, GA, 31305
Local students display art inspired by "Ace Lacewing: Bug Detective", the Little Big Read book for young readers.
Event Location: Brunswick-Glynn County Library, Brunswick, GA, 31520
Today some of the characterizations and terms Mark Twain used in “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” can touch feelings of pain and promote stereotypes. Participants in this program will explore how language changes over time, what we can learn from Twain's characters about life and relationships at the time, and understand how important it is to recognize history for what it is and what it means to our lives today and in the future. Members of a panel moderated by Raney Bench, curator of education for the Abbe Museum, will address these and other issues and guide the discussion of this important topic. This program is a collaboration of the Acadia Senior College, Mount Desert Island Historical Society and the Abbe Museum.
Event Location: College of the Atlantic, 105 Eden Street, Bar Harbor, ME, 04609
This series features films based on Hammett's novels or feature Hammett as a character. "The Thin Man" is comedy-mystery featuring Nick and Nora Charles: a former detective and his rich, playful wife. They solve a murder case mostly for the fun of it. William Powell and Myrna Loy star. (1934, 91 minutes, B&W, not rated.)
Event Location: 1530 Newcastle Street, Brunswick, GA, 31520
Milwaukee Repertory Theater will produce the stage adaptation of "To Kill a Mockingbird" on our Quadracci Powerhouse Stage. The adaptation is written by Christopher Sergel and will be directed by Aaron Posner One of the most beloved and beautifully compassionate stories ever written comes to breathtaking life on stage. Set in small-town Alabama during the Depression, and seen with brilliant clarity through the eyes of a young tomboy, this Pulitzer Prize-winning tale is about innocence, tolerance, family and the courage to live what you believe. Go to www.milwaukeerep.com for tickets!
Event Location: 108 E Wells Street, Milwaukee, WI, 53202-3504
We'll read excerpts from "Tom Sawyer" with a special focus on Twain's women, from Becky Thatcher, to Aunt Polly to the Widow Douglas. We'll share ideas about Twain's women.
Event Location: Every Thing Goes Book Cafe, 208 Bay St, Staten Island, NY, 10301
