Banned Books Postcard Event
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
6:00 PM – 7:45 PM
César E. Chávez Branch, 3301 East 12th St., Suite 271, Oakland CA
Description
Come spend the evening crafting postcards with local guest youth authors!
“With challenges to books at an all-time high, library staff, educators, and authors may be confronted with stressful and disheartening situations. Speaking out for banned and challenged books is vital in the fight against censorship, but we also need to let our trusted librarians, teachers, and the authors of challenged and banned books know that we support them.” Inspired by the Dear Banned Author program hosted by ALA each year, this is a letter-writing campaign that encourages young readers to write a postcard to banned or challenged authors during Banned Books Week and beyond to share what their stories mean to them.
At the end of the event we will mail out postcards to affected library staff, educators, and authors across the Bay!
This event is hosted in collaboration with Author Alley and includes the following authors in attendance:
- Nidhi Chanani
- Angela Dalton
- Traci Huahn
- Mike Jung
- Darshana Khiani
- Steph Lau
- Thien Pham
- Lisa Ramee
- Dashka Slater
- Nadine Takvorian
- Maggi Tokuda-Hall
- Natasha Tripplett
- Rob Liu-Trujillo
- Seina Wedlick
Join us in community and indulge in light snacks! ✏️🍪📝☕
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