Alabama Bound

Please join the Birmingham Public Library-Central for Alabama Bound on Saturday, April 12, 10:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. Birmingham Public Library’s 10th annual author festival and The Big Read will present a day-long series of programs featuring To Kill a Mockingbird. The day will include music, food and entertainment.


Panelists:

Dr. Wayne Flynt, Alabama’s premier historian

Dr. Chris Metress, Samford University English Professor

Dr. Tondra Loder-Jackson, U.A.B. Assistant Professor in Educational Foundations

Mary Badham, “Scout” from the 1962 film

Sandy Jaffe, producer of the documentary, Our Mockingbird


Music, Food and Entertainment:

Red Mountain, an old-time string band

Four Eagles, an old-fashioned gospel quartet

High School Spoken Word Competition Winners

Video clips of Our Mockingbird


We will also have Irondale Café lunches.

The Big Read is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services and Arts Midwest. The Big Read brings together partners across the country to encourage citizens to read for pleasure and enlightenment. The Big Read is made possible by grants from the Alabama State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

The Public Libraries of Jefferson County would like to thank the Birmingham News, Irondale Cafe, The Daniel Foundation of Alabama, Gratitude Foundation, Hill Crest Foundation, Birmingham Jewish Federation, Birmingham Sister Cities Commission, Regions Bank, and Alabama Power Foundation for their generous support of The Big Read.

Please join us! Books and photographs will be for sale. The program should be an exciting event!