The Loft’s Teen Reader’s Theatre Troupe
Adults and teens are welcome!
With permission from and in gratitude to author Laura Resau. This program is funded by an LSTA grant from the Illinois State Library.
B.O.O.K.: Theatre with a Spine Rehearsal at 3 pm today, Saturday 5/10, in:
March 16, Sunday afternoon, 3 pm in the Loft.
Award-winning author and poet Marilyn Nelson comes to Evanston Public Library! Marilyn Nelson has won two Pushcart Prizes, two creative writing fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and was poet Laureate of the State of Connecticut for five years. Several collections of her poetry have been finalists for the National Book Award.
Nelson’s Carver: A Life in Poems, tells the story of George Washington Carver, an African American inventor, botanist, and scholar. Carver’s life unfolds in 44 poems in a stunning use of poetry as biography. Nelson will start her visit in the teen Loft, when B.O.O.K.: Theatre with a Spine (teen reader’s theatre troupe) performs scenes from Carver at 3 pm. Teens and adults are welcome to attend the performance! Then, at 4 pm, all ages are invited to hear Nelson read from selected works in the Community Meeting Room.
B.O.O.K. performs with permission from, and in gratitude to author and poet Marilyn Nelson and Front Street and Boyd Mills Press.
B.O.O.K: Theatre with a Spine, presents:
Scenes from Life as We Knew it, by Susan Beth Pfeffer (Harcourt, 2006)
Saturday, Feb 16 @ 3 pm, in: 
With permission from and in gratitude to the author. Funded by an LSTA grant.
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