Georgetown Theatre Company READ OUT Celebrates BANNED BOOK WEEK
By: Gabrielle Sierra
On Saturday, October 1, 2011, The Georgetown Neighborhood Library is hosting a Banned Book Week Event from 2:00-3:00pm on the Library Terrace, at 3260 R St. N.W. Washington, DC 20007.
Actors from The Georgetown Theatre Company will read from Banned Books, Banned Plays and read Banned Poetry. Selections include works by Ernest Hemingway, Aldous Huxley, Erich Maria Remarque, Oscar Wilde, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Walt Whitman and William Shakespeare.Light refreshments will be served, and a discussion of why specific books have been banned will be encouraged. This event is FREE and open to the public.Banned Book Week is September 24 through October 1, 2011. Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment. For more information about Banned Book Week, please visit http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/banned/bannedbooksweekFor more information about The Neighborhood Georgetown Library or on District of Columbia Public Libraries, please visit http://www.dclibrary.org/georgetown or call 202-727-0232.
For more information about The Georgetown Theatre Company, please visit www.georgetowntheatre.org or call 703-271-7770.
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