The Big Read - March 2009 Events

If interested, please come by the library and ask me for the following free materials related to The Big Read: A Lesson Before Dying:

Teacher's Guide

Reader's Guide

Posters

Audio guide

Bookmarks

Events Brochure

Encourage your students to attend as many events as possible. Attendance at each of the following events will give them more of an opportunity to win prizes in a drawing that will take place at the Wrap Party.

March Events:

Read-A-Thon - Thursday, 3/5/09 @ Eon Coffee House - from noon-9:00 p.m.

Book Discussion - "Mostly Literary Fiction" Book Group - Hayward Main Library - 3/9/09 - 6:30 p.m.-8:00 p.m.

Word for Word - Chabot Little Theater 8:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m. (by ticket only)

Author Event- Lalita Tademy, author of Cane River, @ Hayward Main Library - 3/11/09 - 6:00 p.m.

Film Screening - Hayward Library - Weekes Branch - 3/10/09 - 6:00 p.m - "A Lesson Before Dying"

Film Screening - Chabot College ASCC - Balcony above the cafeteria - 3/11/09 - 6:00 p.m - "A Lesson Before Dying"

Family Blues Celebration - Hayward Main Library - 3/14/09 - 2:00 p.m.

Film Screening - Hayward Main Library - 3/16/09 - 6:00 p.m - "A Lesson Before Dying"

Teen Poetry Slam Competition - Hayward High School Cafe - 3/27/09 - 5:30 p.m.

Video Conference with Ernest Gaines - Cal State University East Bay, Building VBT, Room 124 & Gallery - 3/21/09 - 1:00 p.m.

Author Event - Brian Copeland author of Not a Genuine Black Man - Chabot College Library - 3/24/09 - 12:00 p.m.

Book Discussion - "Globetrotters" Book Group - Hayward Main Library - 3/30/09 - 6:30 p.m.-8:00 p.m.

The Big Read Wrap Party - Hayward City Hall Rotunda - 4/2/09 - 6:00 p.m.