PRIME TIME Family Reading Time Established by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, PRIME TIME Family Reading Time is facilitated in Georgia by the Georgia Public Library Service in partnership with Georgia Humanities. PRIME TIME is a free children's program of reading, storytelling, and discussion, targeting families with illiteracy or low-literacy issues. The program uses […]
PRIME TIME Family Reading Time Established by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, PRIME TIME Family Reading Time is facilitated in Georgia by the Georgia Public Library Service in partnership with Georgia Humanities. PRIME TIME is a free children's program of reading, storytelling, and discussion, targeting families with illiteracy or low-literacy issues. The program uses […]
Writing to Make a Difference: Linda Hogan and Native American Ecological Literature Writing to Make a Difference, a reading and conversation hosted by Augusta University, will feature Linda Hogan, the Writer in Residence for The Chickasaw Nation and Professor Emerita from the University of Colorado. Hogan is an internationally-recognized writer of poetry, fiction, and essays, with […]
28th Edition of the Book Festival of the MJCCA The 28th Edition of the Book Festival of the MJCCA begins October 30, and continues through November 18, 2019. For twenty-seven years, the Book Festival of the MJCCA has provided the community with an exciting lineup of the year's most exceptional authors, celebrities, and influencers. More […]
Threshold New Play Festival The Threshold New Play Festival is a lineup of new play readings by Georgia writers poised to make a mark on the national scene. In the first reading of the series, Actor's Express will present "Borderstone" by Natasha Patel. "Borderstone" is a thriller, set in the future, where employees of the […]
Threshold New Play Festival The Threshold New Play Festival is a lineup of new play readings by Georgia writers poised to make a mark on the national scene. In the final reading of the series, Actor's Express will present "Man from the East" by Skype Passmore. "Man from the East" follows the real-life story of […]
Bare Essentials Play Reading: "The Sunrise from the Moon" by Hannah Manikowski The first online Bare Essentials play reading, "The Sunrise from the Moon," is written by Hannah Manikowski and presented by Essential Theatre. The play is set in the future and features a young woman who is the only survivor of a failed lunarcolony […]
The 2020 Lillian Smith Book Awards The Lillian Smith Book Awards are sponsored by the Southern Regional Council, University of Georgia Libraries, DeKalb County Public Library/The Georgia Center for the Book, and Piedmont College. The awards are presented annually at the Decatur Book Festival. Selected by a panel of judges, nominated books represent outstanding creative […]
Book Festival of the MJCCA: In Your Living Room The virtual Book Festival of the MJCCA begins October 13, and continues through December 2, 2020. For twenty-eight years, the Book Festival of the MJCCA has provided an exciting lineup of the year's most exceptional authors, celebrities, and influencers. Although this year's festival will be held […]
A Live Reading of Sovereignty Sovereignty, written by playwright Mary Kathryn Nagle, examines the intersections of personal and political truths and historic and contemporary struggles through two parallel timelines. In present-day Oklahoma, a young Cherokee lawyer, Sarah Ridge Polson, and her colleague Jim Ross, defend the inherent jurisdiction of the Cherokee Nation in the United […]
