Humanities & Social Sciences Stone Center launches Big Read Monday (March 31)
| Stone Center launches Big Read Monday (March 31) |
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| Tuesday, March 25, 2008 | |
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The Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will launch its Big Read program March 31, a celebration of Zora Neale Hurston’s “Their Eyes Were Watching God.” A 7 p.m. reception at the center, featuring music and poetry performed by Kim Arrington, activist and poet, will kick off a month of events, including discussions, films and storytelling for kids, from March 31 through April 30. Details and a schedule are listed at http://www.neabigread.org/events.php?mode=communityCalendar&communityID=2745 . “We’re excited to have the opportunity to connect local readers to ‘Their Eyes Were Watching God’ through music, poetry, film and dialogue,” said Lotticia Mack, Stone Center community programs coordinator. Chapel Hill-Carrboro is one of 127 communities nationwide participating in the Big Read, an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), between January and June. Since the program’s launch in 2006, the NEA has funded more than 300 local Big Read programs. The Big Read is designed to restore reading to the center of American culture and encourage reading for pleasure and enlightenment. The NEA presents the Big Read with the Institute of Museum and Library Services and Arts Midwest. For more information, visit http://www.neabigread.org/ . Locally, the Stone Center presents the program with the Carolina Women’s Center, the Ackland Art Museum, 21st Century Community Learning Centers, North Carolina Central University’s English and mass communications department and the Chapel Hill Public Library. The center is at 150 South Road west of the Morehead Patterson Bell Tower. Stone Center contact: Olympia Friday, (919) 962-7265, This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it |