BROWARD COUNTY LIBRARY
NEWS JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2018
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Florida Center for the Book at Broward County Library invites all of Broward County to join
The NEA Big Read
In the Time of the Butterflffllflies by Julia Alvarez
The Florida Center for the Book at Broward County Library invites readers of all ages to participate in the 2018 NEA Big Read project. The NEA Big Read 2018, a communitywide reading program, is exploring In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez with a full calendar of events including book and film discussions, lectures, visual arts workshops, Dominican Republic cultural programs such as merengue and bachata dance workshops and other family-friendly programs.
A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart.
~Julia Alvarez
In the Time of the Butterflies is historical fiction based on the lives of the four Mirabal sisters, who participated in underground efforts to topple Rafael Leonidas Trujillo’s dictatorial regime in the Dominican Republic. In 1960, three of the sisters were slain on Trujillo’s order. Their story haunted Alvarez, whose own family had fled just months before the sisters’ assassinations. The novel gives a voice to all four sisters, who speak across the decades to tell their own stories and to describe the everyday horrors under Trujillo’s rule. Through the art and magic of Julia Alvarez’s imagination, the martyred Butterflies live again in this novel of courage, love and the human cost of political oppression.
A limited number of free books are available for those wishing to participate in book discussions and other related activities. For a full listing of NEA Big Read events, please visit Broward.org/Library/Read FEATURED EVENTS January 13 - The NEA Big Read Kickoff at the Chalklit Festival
Kick off NEA Big Read 2018 at Broward County’s Inaugural Chalklit Festival! Enjoy music, food trucks, murals created live and on-site by more than 20 street artists, 3D printing stations, face painting, museum-curated workshops, crafting with Blick Art Materials, an area for kids to create their own chalk masterpieces and a People’s Choice Award. 10AM to 5PM, Main Library The NEA Big Read is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest.
See inside for more NEA Big Read Events