Please join us for an all day event celebrating our Freedom to Read!
Sign up or drop in to read from your favourite challenged or banned book, or read from one of the many books we will have available. 9-12 & 1-3:30 Sign up at http://tinyurl.com/
Featuring a panel moderated by UBC University Librarian Ingrid Parent discussing how intellectual freedom is lived through everyday life experience and work. Light refreshments will be served.12-1pm
We will also have a Freedom to Write space and welcome everyone to come write and share your words.
Tweet to share your 3 favourite banned or challenged books using #FTRWeek. We’ll also have an (actually physical!) board where you you can write and post them at the event.
Come pick up a book mark on banned books or come read about current news on challenged, banned or censored materials in Canada.
The intellectual freedom panel at noon will feature:
Christopher Kevlahan, Branch Head at Joe Fortes VPL
Dr. Gregory Mackie, Assistant Professor, Department of English, UBC
Tara Robertson, Accessibility Librarian, CAPER-BC at Langara College
Miriam Moses, the Acquisitions Librarian at Burnaby Public Library
Moderated by Ingrid Parent, University Librarian, UBC