Our next education discussion lunch is Monday, March 14, 12:00-1:15 in Wilder Hall, room 112. These lunches are held monthly to bring together college students, faculty and staff, as well as educators and community members involved in education in the Oberlin community. At our gatherings about half the time is for informal chatting and sharing information about local education, and half the time is for a guest speaker.
Our guest speaker this month will be Allison Ricker, a librarian in the Oberlin College Science Library, and the topic is the Big Read. We will discuss this community-wide reading initiative, as well as the themes of censorship and media control in education. More details are below.
Please join us, and forward this invitation to other individuals and groups who may be interested in attending. The event is free and open to the public, and a pizza and salad lunch will be served.
Details: The city, college, and schools of Oberlin have received a grant to sponsor community-wide reading of the book Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury during the 2010-2011 year. The Big Read is a nation-wide project of the National Endowment for the Arts. Communities may choose a book from a given list and apply for a grant to host a Big Read event. Events so far this year have included Bradbury's biographer Sam Weller coming to Oberlin for a public lecture, a series of films related to themes in Farenheit 451, and a series of book groups discussing the book. Upcoming this spring are a visit from author Chris Crutcher and an art exhibit at FAVA gallery.
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