Greenburgh is Reading
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- October
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There’s still time to join in the The Big Read in Westchester, but you have to be a fast reader to get through a 240-page paperback by Sunday afternoon. This weekend in Greenburgh the town’s Arts and Culture Committee is hosting a public book forum.
The selected book is “Their Eyes Were Watching God,” by Zora Neale Hurston, a 1937 classic tale about a young woman’s journey through life beginning at a southern plantation. She learns all about love, life, happiness and sadness.
The National Endowment for the Arts hopes everyone in Westchester will be reading and discussing this book during The Big Read. There are book discussion events throughout November. Go to the Westchester Arts Council’s site to find out what is happening in your neighborhood.
This community-based literary program is designed to encourage people to read and discuss books and demonstrate that Americans are reading.The Big Read is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services and Arts Midwest, presented in Westchester by the Westchester Arts Council in partnership with Purchase College and the Westchester Library System.
The Greenburgh Arts and Culture Committee is hosting its event as part of its women’s writers series.
And they have assembled quite a forum panel: Guest speakers are Angela Batchelor, a journalist, novelist, and editor at the Millbrook Round Table; Ann Cefola, a poet, translator and creative strategist; Terry Dugan, a poet, novelist and medical anthropologist; Linda Simone, a poet and Assistant Director, Graduate Writing Program at Manhattanville College; and Sarah Bracey White, an essayist, novelist and arts administrator. Also on the program is Ms. White’s reading of “Wanderlust,” her award-winning, Zora Neale Hurston-inspired folktale.
The program from 2-4 p.m. this Sunday, October 28th, and is free. It will take place at Greenburgh Town Hall, 177 Hillside Avenue, Greenburgh. For more information call (914) 682-1574.
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