Literacy Network’s Literacy 24/7 event will be less exhausting in 2010
Reading is both fun and antisocial.
In past years, Literacy Network’s “Literacy 24/7” event was a real meat-grinder. Participants would gather for a 24-hour marathon of reading (and readings), all to support the organization’s greater cause of promoting basic reading, writing, and speaking skills throughout Dane County. This year the event’s name has remained the same, but its dialed back a bit on the endurance elements by ditching the all-day shindig. Still, that’s not to say the best parts haven’t been preserved in four very different readings spaced throughout the week.
Just like reading itself, the schedule of events tries to offer something relevant for folks of all ages. Kicking things off on Sunday, March 7 at 2 p.m. is award-winning children’s book author and illustrator Kevin Henkes. On Tuesday, March 9 at 6 p.m. the food blogging duo of Madison Beer Review's Jeff Glazer and Cheese Underground's Jeanne Carpenter will hit The Malt House with a cheese and beer pairing extravaganza. Cheeses include Capri Cheesery Washed Bear, Saxon Creamery Saxony, Marieke Aged Gouda, and others; and the featured local and regional beers will hail from Fauerbach, Sprecher, New Glarus, Central Waters, and O’so breweries.
Regardless of how all of that goodness digests, two days later Willy Street Co-op will host Amy Recob on Thursday, March 11 at 6:30 p.m. Recob’s children’s book, The BugaBees: Friends With Food Allergies, should create quite a, er, buzz for those who have to live in daily fear of experiencing anaphylactic shock from ingesting a stray peanut. And finally, on Saturday, March 13 at 6 p.m., Edgewood College will present three of Madison’s most prominent literary voices. Evolutionary biologist Sean B. Carroll’s latest book, Remarkable Creatures, was nominated for a National Book Award; both of Michelle Wildgen’s novels—You’re Not You and But Not For Long—have garnered widespread praise; and Madison’s poet laureate, Fabu, will be around to contribute some verse.
For information on helping raise money by your reading your eyeballs out for a week, check out Literacy Network’s website.
