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Banned Books Week 2018

Take a Stand for Books: September 23-29

Featured Event

Banned Books Picnic
Monday, Sept, 24, 6-8 p.m., Central Library

Join us after work to hang out with your friends and listen to passages from challenged and banned books, read by some of your favorite librarians. For adults and mature teens only.

Picnic party in meadow with picnic basket and tree branches

Special Events on Wednesday, Sept. 26

  • Central Library - Escape Room: Banned Books Week - for ages 16+
  • Connection: Crystal City - I Totes Read Banned Books Craft - for adults and teens in grade 6+
  • Shirlington Branch Library - Banned Books Week Lecture: Utopian Communities

Banned Books Button Making - for All Ages

Kids in grade 5 and younger must have adult supervision to use the button maker.

  • Sunday, Sept. 23 - Columbia Pike Branch Library
  • Monday, Sept. 24 - Columbia Pike Branch Library
  • Friday, Sept. 28 - Connection, Crystal City Pop-up Library
  • Saturday, Sept. 29 - Connection: Crystal City Pop-up Library

The annual Banned Books Week encourages readers to examine challenged literary works and promotes free and open access to ideas and information.

According to Director of Arlington Public Library Diane Kresh: “Books are change agents. They challenge our beliefs and biases, help us learn to think for ourselves, and expose us to different experiences and cultures. I encourage you to commit to reading at least one challenged book this fall.”

Banned Books Week was established in 1982 by the late Judith Krug, then director of the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom, in response to a sudden surge in the number of challenges to books in schools, bookstores and libraries. Learn more about Banned Books Week.

September 4, 2018 by Web Editor

Filed Under: App, News

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  1. Norma Kacen says

    September 8, 2018 at 4:32 pm

    Perhaps the new logo will challege us to to ask the the intended message of an image, a slogan, a book, a piece of art that we don’t understand or that we’ve not seen in a different context, rather than see it as mismatched. The logo may inspire us to see in a new way.

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