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Be Part of the Big Read!
| What if everyone read the same book? That’s the idea behind The Big Read, an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services and Arts Midwest. We’re one of many libraries in the Capital District to present special programs, book discussions, film screenings, and storytimes throughout May - all centered around the book, Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Harlem Renaissance writer Zora Neale Hurston, the highly acclaimed novel of a proud and independent black woman’s quest for identity. There’s something here for everyone, young and old, so please join us! |
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The Big Read kick offs here at the Guilderland Public Library Friday, May 4 at
2 pm. Lucy Anne Hurston, niece of author Zora Neale Hurston, will be our special guest at An Afternoon Tea at the Library. Lucy Anne Hurston is a biographer and scholar, and author of the multimedia biography, Speak, So You Can Speak Again: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston, published in 2004. |
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| All The Big Read Events at the Guilderland Public Library: |
| 5/2, 3:00 pm: Adult Book Discussion of Their Eyes Were Watching God . |
5/7, 6:30 pm: Drop-in Storytime for children - “All that Jazz”
Drums and sticks and toe-tappin’ jazz! |
5/9, 11 am: Storytime at Border’s Crossgates Mall - “All that Jazz”
Drums and sticks and toe-tappin’ jazz! |
| 5/9, 6 pm: Film “John Henry,” starring Denzel Washington. For grades 1-4. |
5/10, 1 pm: Drop-in Storytime - “Jazzy Stories and Tall Tales”
Lies and Other Tall Tales, collected by Zora Neale Hurston with stories on jazz and Duke Ellington. |
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5/11, 10:30 am: Drop-in Storytime - “There Stands a Bluebird”
Traditional African-American folksongs, games, and rhythms and the beauty of Spring come together for a storytime filled with joy. |
| 5/14, 7:30 pm: Adult Book Discussion of Their Eyes Were Watching God . |
5/19, 2 pm: The Sonny & Perley Quartet present “A Tribute to Ella Fitzgerald”
The very popular Sonny & Perley Quartet, featuring pianist Sonny Daye, vocalist Perley Rousseau, drummer Ted MacKensie, and bass player Tom Charlap, will perform songs of Ella Fitzgerald, one of the great pioneers of the jazz vocal tradition and the “Harlem Renaissance’s Lady of Song.” |
| 5/21, 7 pm: Adult Book Discussion of Their Eyes Were Watching God |
| 5/29, 6:30 pm: A screening of the film, “Their Eyes Were Watching God,” starring Halle Berry |
These events are part of The Big Read,
an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts
in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services and Arts Midwest. |
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