Date: 9/22/09
Contact: Marc Lebovitz
Ten individuals from the campus and the Twin Cities will participate in activities recognizing Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read at Illinois State University's Bone Student Center on Sept. 30 and Oct. 1 and 2. The event is free and open to the public.
Hosted by Milner Library and Barnes & Noble College Book Store, all readings will be in front of Barnes & Noble in the student center for one hour beginning at 11:30 a.m. National Banned Books Week (Sept. 26-Oct. 3), launched by the American Library Association in 1982, recognizes that "intellectual freedom can exist only where the freedom to express oneself and the freedom to choose what opinions and viewpoints to consume are both met."
Excerpts from banned and challenged books will be read by Illinois State faculty, staff and students, and community members. A brief introduction of the selected books will cover the reasons why they have been banned or challenged.
Tuesday, September 29
11:30 - noon Vivian Carter reading "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine
12:00- 12:15 Leanna Bordner reading "Chinese Handcuffs" by Chris Crutcher
12:15 - 12:30 Rick Lewis reading "Goodbye Christ" by Langston Hughes and "My House" by Nikki Giovanni
Wednesday, September 30
11:30 - 11:45 Rep. Daniel Brady reading "In the Night Kitchen" by Maurice Sendak
11:45 - noon Jan Susina reading "A Light in the Attic" by Shel Silverstein
12:00- 12:15 Michael Pulin reading "And Tango Makes Three" by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell
12:15 -12:30 Jim Keeran reading "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Thursday, October 1
11:30 - 11:45 Dean Cheryl Elzy reading "Tailypo" by Joanna Galdone
11:45 - 12:00 Danielle Miller-Schuster reading "Nineteen Minutes" by Jodi Picoult
12:00- 12:15 Cassi Lund reading "Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West" by Gregory Mcguire
12:15 - 12:30 Juan Ortega reading "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding" Vol. 2, (chapter X) by John Locke
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