Don’t miss the 2008 Youth Summit this Saturday, May 3, 10:30 am - 3:00 pm.
At ETHS in Michael Cafeteria.
Mawi Asgedom, author of Evanston Reads title Of Beetles and Angels, will speak!
Behind the scenes on Twilight April 27, 2008
Take a look behind the scenes of the vampire flick, Twilight, on MTV.
Drop by the Loft and check out Stephenie Meyer’s books:
Twilight (Little, Brown, 2005)
New Moon (Little, Brown, 2006)
Eclipse (Little, Brown, 2007)
Saturday Afternoon Movie April 26, 2008
April 26, Saturday, 2 pm. Saturday Afternoon Movie! 10 Things I Hate About You. 
Pretty and popular Bianca wants a date. But her father won’t let her date until her older, odious sister, Kat, has a date of her own. Bianca’s desperation for romance turns into a convoluted scheme sure to entertain. A modern day Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare)! Teens only! Rated PG-13
What Happened April 19, 2008
What Happened by Peter Johnson (Front Street, 2007)
The unnamed narrator of Peter Johnson’s new novel, What Happened, has never been in so much trouble. Driving home from a party one snowy night, his friend Duane accidentally hits a man and then ditches the scene, leaving the narrator and his brother Kyle there to deal with the unconscious victim. The two brothers want to go to the cops, but Duane’s tyrannical father bullies them into keeping silent.
Life is already hard for the brothers, whose mother died of cancer and whose father abandoned them afterward. As the teens figure out how to handle the hit-and-run accident and steer clear of Duane’s father and his ice-queen wife (whose daughter Kyle is dating), they have to deal with some of life’s deepest questions, such as the existence of evil in the world. Johnson’s prose is poetic and written in a disjunctive, nontraditional narrative style. This engrossing novel reminds us that “what happened” is never a simple story and that, as Nietzsche said, “There are no facts, only interpretations.” (Jacob, The Loft)
Youth Job Fair this Saturday! April 17, 2008
Need a Job? Come to the Youth Job Fair this Saturday!
April 19, 8 am - 2 pm at the Evanston Civic Center, 2100 Ridge.
The Mayor’s Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP) is a nine-week summer work experience for Evanston youth 14 to 18 years of age. The City and local businesses employ SYEP participants to perform a variety of full and part-time jobs. For more information on how it all works, click here.
Knitting Club!
Calling Teen Filmmakers April 14, 2008
The CineYouth Festival in Chicago invites young filmmakers to submit their work!
Films and Videos of any genre that were completed after March 16, 2007 can be entered into the festival. Submission deadline: postmarked May 1, 2008. Filmmakers must be residents of the United States and must have been 20 years old or younger when they completed their project.
For more information and a submission form, click here.
