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Summer Reading Program 2013 Summer Reading Program, 2013
Our much loved Summer Reading Program encourages students from elementary through high school to read all throughout the summer, with parties, musical performances, story-telling, free food, book giveaways, reading goal certificates and much more.
Kids, register online here
Teens, register online here
Link here for the (2-page) Schedule of Events
Check our Events Calendar for the kickoff parties at each branch
Teencrafternoon & Skill Share Wednesday Teen Crafternoon & Skill-Share
Join us for a craft skill-share every week in the Teen Room. From Painting and book making to jewelry, paper arts, sculpture, duct table, glitter tatoos and more! Every week a different project and skill. Or bring something you're working on and show us a thing or two.
Every Wednesday, 3 p.m. (beginning May 22)
Norman Mayer Branch
SUNO Exhibit Sustaining Life: Water . Grain . Beer
An exhibit curated by students from SUNO's Museum Studies Program from materials housed in the Center for African and African-American Studies
On view through May 29
Main Library
Spring Poetry Series Alvar Spring Poetry Series
This Spring, on the last Thursday of the months of March, April, and May, Alvar will host a series of local poets reading their original work.
May 30, 7 - 9 p.m.
Alvar Branch
See our Events Calendar for a list of the readers for each program
Bust-A-Rhyme Rap Contest "Bust-A-Rhyme" Rap Contest
Win Prizes! Open to Orleans Parish residents ages 11-18. Judged by Shorty, Ayanna Molina, and 89 Boyz
May 31, 1 p.m.
Martin Luther King Branch
Link here for the contest rules
Great Architects Great Architects
Casey Stuart of Save Our Cemeteries will present a lecture on great architects of New Orleans
June 1, 3 p.m.
Smith Branch
GLBTQ&A Book Club GLBTQ&A Book Club
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning teens & their Allies are invited to join in the book club conversation! We will provide paper and digital copies of a short story the week before; the subsequent discussion will be guided by the themes and issues explored in the reading.
Every 1st & 3rd Monday (beginning June 3), 4 - 4:30 p.m.
Main Library Auditorium
Sarah Carr: Hope Against Hope Authors Read @ Keller
Sarah Carr: Hope Against Hope
Join Sarah Carr in a conversation about education reform in New Orleans schools. She will read, discuss, and sign her new book, Hope Against Hope: Three Schools, One City, and the Struggle to Educate America's Children.
June 5, 6 - 7:30 p.m.
Keller Branch

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