Every year, bookstores, libraries, universities, and organizations host engaging programs that spotlight censorship. Are you hosting an event for Banned Books Week? Putting up a display? Let us know about it, and we’ll share it here for the world to find!
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Little Free Library Unbound is a digital event series connecting stewards, patrons, supporters, authors, publishers, the Little Free Library organization staff, and our national board via monthly webinars on book-related topics. Attendees will have the opportunity to submit questions for our guest panelists, and our moderator will lead a discussion alongside the Q&A. Chapter 20 ... Read More
Special symposium event celebrating PEN America’s centenary, at the New-York Historical Society. Over the last 100 years, PEN America has mobilized countless writers, activists, and public intellectuals in the fight to defend free expression and the open exchange of ideas. Join PEN America CEO Suzanne Nossel and President Ayad Akhtar for Words on Fire: Writing, Freedom, and the Future, ... Read More
On five nights in September, the renowned artist Jenny Holzer will celebrate PEN America’s century-long defense of the written word and the fundamental rights that make free expression possible with a powerful new series of light projections that will illuminate three buildings in Manhattan’s iconic Rockefeller Center. Starting after sunset at 8pm on Wednesday, September ... Read More
As cases of censorship in schools make national headlines, they might feel far away. But these challenges, frequently targeting materials and programming with LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC representation, are happening in our rural and small libraries across the country. From soft censorship to formal challenges, how can we be prepared when we need to defend intellectual ... Read More
Banned Books Week launches in Duncans Mills at Poet's Corner Book Shop on Thursday, September 15th. Live music, author readings, and more. Third Thursday in Duncans Mills honors Banned Books Week.
You have the right to say what you think, share information and demand a better world. Exercising these rights – without fear or unlawful interference – is central to living in an open and fair society. Yet across the globe governments have increased censorship and routinely imprison people for speaking out! This event will feature ... Read More
It's a play about books, censorship, home, the past, and the future. And above all, it's a play about stories. As the Civil Rights movement is flowering, a simple children’s picture book about a black rabbit marrying a white rabbit stirs the passions of a segregationist State Senator and a no-nonsense State Librarian in 1959 ... Read More
Join us as we reveal the winning Banned Books Trading Cards. Mingle with the winning artists, take home your own set of cards, and celebrate the opening of the Banned Books Week exhibit in the library's lobby on Friday, Sept. 16. You can enjoy a beverage and snack on treats while viewing all 74 wonderful ... Read More
Join us for a night of banned books and forbidden beverages! In celebration of the upcoming Banned Books Week, we will be hosting a 21+ event that will begin with an exclusive cocktail hour at the super secret speakeasy “The 9,” located at the Owl Morning ‘Til Night. Local Cocktail Historian and owner of Liquor ... Read More
It's a play about books, censorship, home, the past, and the future. And above all, it's a play about stories. As the Civil Rights movement is flowering, a simple children’s picture book about a black rabbit marrying a white rabbit stirs the passions of a segregationist State Senator and a no-nonsense State Librarian in 1959 ... Read More
Visit Chapel Hill Public Library Meeting Room A between September 17th and September 30th during library open hours to see a display of Banned Books Trading Cards 2022 submissions and large format displays of winning entries from past years. Pick up your set of trading cards and participate in an interactive display on the theme, ... Read More
In June of 2021, the Florida State Board of Education approved a policy amendment that banned classroom instruction of Critical Race Theory and The 1619 Project in Florida’s schools. This amendment was soon followed by a slate of Florida legislation seeking to censor books related to race in the classrooms. On September 17, join PEN America Miami/South Florida Chapter, Miami Book Fair, and Books ... Read More
It's a play about books, censorship, home, the past, and the future. And above all, it's a play about stories. As the Civil Rights movement is flowering, a simple children’s picture book about a black rabbit marrying a white rabbit stirs the passions of a segregationist State Senator and a no-nonsense State Librarian in 1959 ... Read More
Banned Books Week is an annual event that celebrates open access to books in our schools, libraries, and communities. This is Redux Society's first year participating, and we have a full week of Book Bingo, Book Discussions, and more! As an LGBT+, BIPOC, and Woman-owned bookstore, it is more important than ever to raise these ... Read More
Over the course of Banned Books Week, this series will cover seven different books, the reasons they were banned, and the value in reading them. Hosted by Tonya Todd, one new episode of Banned Books Conversations will be posted to YouTube each day. Panelists include authors and readers across the US and UK.
To celebrate Banned Book Week, every book in the Little Free Library will have been banned or challenged at one time. Each book comes with a bookmark explaining its history.
Essay contest details: Topic: What is your favorite banned book? Why? What's a banned book, you ask? Check this out: American Library Association list of banned books Who can enter?: Current High school students in Brevard County, Florida Evaluation criteria: Understanding of the topic Original thinking on the topic Effectiveness in presenting a point of view ... Read More
Let's give book bans the boot! Join a youth-focused Texas coalition for Banned Books Week 2022, as students demand a seat at the table in policymaking that directly affects their education and livelihoods. With the power of organized youth, students can make a difference in local communities. Attend this interactive webinar to learn how to ... Read More
Award-winning librarian Martha Hickson at the Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice to enlighten us about the state of censorship & what YOU can do to defend the right to read (& with a very special guest appearance by Daniel Handler AKA Lemony Snicket!) In schools & libraries around the country, extremists are attempting to ... Read More
In honor of Banned Books Week and in protest of censorship of books with LGBTQIA+ and racial equity themes in Oklahoma schools and libraries, we are holding a public reading of some of the most banned and challenged books of the past five years. Readings will be modified to be appropriate for families with middle-school-aged ... Read More
FREE readings around Chicago and Chicago suburbs. Various venues. See website for full list of events. Books on the Chopping Block is our annual 60-minute performance of dramatic readings of short excerpts taken from these books. City Lit has teamed up with the ALA in celebration of Banned Books Week since 2006, performing at special ... Read More
Booksweet's Banned Book Club wraps up with a special Banned Books Week event at Kerrytown BookFest with a discussion of the #1 most challenged book of 2021: Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe. When: Sunday, September 18 Time: 2:45-3:45 pm Where: Kerrytown BookFest, held this year in the Morris J. Lawrence Building at Washtenaw Community College (4800 E Huron River Dr, Ann Arbor) What: a participatory, book ... Read More