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Freedom to Read Student Summit with PEN America

In-Person Program
2024-09-28 11:00:00 2024-09-28 15:00:00 America/Los_Angeles Freedom to Read Student Summit with PEN America High school students can engage with each other and youth advocacy leaders from PEN America in this workshop designed to discuss and counter growing threats to the freedom to read in California and nationwide. Featuring Pickle the Drag Queen! West Hollywood Library - Meeting Room

Saturday, September 28
11:00am - 3:00pm

Add to Calendar 2024-09-28 11:00:00 2024-09-28 15:00:00 America/Los_Angeles Freedom to Read Student Summit with PEN America High school students can engage with each other and youth advocacy leaders from PEN America in this workshop designed to discuss and counter growing threats to the freedom to read in California and nationwide. Featuring Pickle the Drag Queen! West Hollywood Library - Meeting Room

West Hollywood Library

Meeting Room

High school students can engage with each other and youth advocacy leaders from PEN America in this workshop designed to discuss and counter growing threats to the freedom to read in California and nationwide. Featuring Pickle the Drag Queen!

Join us in person at West Hollywood Library on Saturday, September 28 from 11:00 am – 3:00 pm for our youth activism workshops and catered lunch. At our Summit, student attendees will be able to learn the latest nationwide book ban data collected by PEN America, assess emerging censorship trends, and discuss ways to effectively advocate for free expression and access to diverse literature in our communities.

Our special guests include Pickle, the Drag Laureate of the City of West Hollywood, and the Golden State Readers, a youth-led group of freedom to read advocates from across California who will discuss their #BreakTheTape caution tape awareness campaign and ways that students can become campaign ambassadors during Banned Books Week.

This event is open to all high school students and is free to attend. Lunch will be provided. Capacity is limited so please register as soon as possible. If you have any questions, please email institute@pen.org.

Sponsored by LA County Supervisor Lindsey P. Horvath, 3rd District. Giveaways provided by LA County Library Foundation.

AGE GROUP: | Teens |

EVENT TYPE: | Lectures & Conversations | Education & Literacy | Books, Poetry, & Writing |

TAGS: | Banned Books |

West Hollywood Library
Phone: 310.652.5340
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About the branch

West Hollywood Library began service to the area (then unincorporated ) in 1913. The library was previously located at Sherman School, a cottage on Clark Street, a building on Westbourne Drive, and a building near the present site. The Library has an active Friends of the Library group.

The new library was dedicated October 1, 2011.

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