15TH ANNIVERSARY Silicon Valley Reads 2017

Silicon Valley Reads 2017 15TH ANNIVERSARY SVR

Calendar of Events February – March, 2017 Authors • Panels • Films • Art Exhibit • Discussions Activities for children and teens Free events for all ages throughout Santa Clara County

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SiliconValleyReads.org Celebrating Silicon Valley Read’s 15th anniversary In 2002, local community and education leaders the community to help support the education and New York Times bestsellers are the centerpiece came up with an idea – what if everyone in Silicon lifelong learning that is critical for individual success Valley was asked to read the same book, at the same and for Silicon Valley to maintain its leadership in of Silicon Valley Reads 2017 time, and talk about it? They selected Breaking creativity and innovation. Through by Santa Clara University professor Francisco Jimenez to be the inaugural book and Thank you to everyone who has participated in and Kick-Off Event scheduled a dozen free events. supported Silicon Valley Reads through the years. Thursday, Feb 23, 7:30 p.m. We look forward to seeing you at this year’s events. Visual & Performing Arts Center, Silicon Valley Reads has evolved into a more Silicon Valley ReadsDe Anza2017 College, Cupertino Silicon Valley Reads Co-chairs 15TH ANNIVERSARY SVR comprehensive program that each year includes Adam Benforado, author of more than 100 free activities throughout Santa Clara Jill Bourne Unfair: The New Science of Criminal County for all age groups. What hasn’t changed is Library Director, City of San José Injustice, is interviewed live on stage the goal – to use thought-provoking books and a Mary Ann Dewan, Ph.D. by Mercury News columnist theme relevant to issues in our region to encourage Sal Pizarro, followed by audience Deputy Superintendent people to read, think, discuss and engage in sharing Q&A and book signing. The Santa Clara County Office of Education information and their diverse perspectives. adjacent Euphrat Museum of Art Nancy Howe will be open 6:30-7:30 p.m. and We want to promote reading, literacy, and the County Librarian, Santa Clara County Library District during book signing for free viewing of the exhibit “Justice for All?” appreciation of literature among all members of “In this important, deeply researched “[A] harrowing [portrait] of life debut, [Benforado] draws on findings Co-sponsored by Commonwealth behind bars . . . Gritty, visceral . . . from psychology and neuroscience to Club Silicon Valley and De Anza Senghor writes about the process PAST SILICON VALLEY READS SELECTIONS show that police, jurors, and judges College. of atonement and the possibility are generally guided by intuitive of redemption, and talks of Doors open at 6:45 p.m. No tickets 2016 2015 2014 feelings rather than hard facts in his efforts to work for prison making assessments...The new research or reservations required. First reforms that might turn a system challenges basic assumptions about most come, first seated. Please note you designed to warehouse into one key aspects of the legal system, including will need to purchase a $3 ticket for aimed at rehabilitation.” eyewitness memory, jury deliberations, on-campus parking. Lots A and – Michiko Kakutani, police procedures, and punishment...An B are closest. See campus map at The New York Times original and provocative argument that Memory of Water Sherwood Nation We Need New Names Stealing Buddha’s Dinner The Book of The Shallows: What The Mr. Penumbra’s DeAnza.edu/map. Information: Emmi Itäranta Benjamin Parzybok NoViolet Bulawayo Bich Minh Nguyen Unknown Americans Internet Is Doing To Our Brains 24 Hour Bookstore upends our most cherished beliefs about Nicholas Carr Robin Sloan [email protected]. Cristina Henriquez providing equal justice under the law.” 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 – Kirkus Review

The Power of Books: A Conversation with Past Silicon Valley Reads Authors Minefields of the Heart The Long Walk The Muslim Next Door The Butterfly Mosque The Year of the Fog In Defense of Food Not a Genuine Black Man Sunday, March 26 Sue Diaz Brian Castner Sumbul Ali-Karamali Willow Wilson Michelle Richmond Michael Pollan Brian Copeland

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Past Silicon Valley Reads authors will help celebrate our Sumbul Ali-Karamali (SVR 2012) and Bich Minh Nguyen 15th anniversary with a panel discussion about the power (SVR 2015). Returning as moderator is former Mercury of books to help engage the community in meaningful News columnist Mike Cassidy who is now the storyteller at dialogue about important issues. Participating authors at BloomReach, a Silicon Valley marketing technology company. The Distant Land of My Father Tortilla Curtain When The Emperor Was Divine The Souvenir Epitaph for a Peach Fahrenheit 451 Breaking Through press time include: Francisco Jimenez (SVR 2003), Brian Bo Caldwell T.C. Boyle Julie Otsuka Louise Steinman David Mas Masumoto Ray Bradbury Francisco Jimenez 2 p.m. (Doors open at 1:15 p.m. for first come seating), Copeland (SVR 2009), Michelle Richmond (SVR 2011), Heritage Theater, Campbell Become a Silicon Valley Reads fan on Facebook! #SVReads 2 3

Event listings in date order at SiliconValleyReads.org Event location addresses on page 11 Author Appearances More Thought-provoking Programs Adam Benforado Author, Unfair: The New Science of Criminal Injustice “Justice for All” Art Exhibit “Justice for All?” includes works The museum is open Mon-Thur, “One of my goals was to challenge Sun, March 19, 3:30 p.m., Sunnyvale Public Library, Sunnyvale. Feb 1-March 23 that look at our collective history 10 a.m.-3 p.m. (except Feb 22); Sat, people to imagine an entirely different Co-sponsored by Friends of Sunnyvale Public Library. Euphrat Museum of Art, De Anza College, Cupertino and the unconscious bias that March 4, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.; Thur, Feb 2 landscape of justice, with virtual impacts our systems and lives. and Thur, March 2, 5-7 p.m. for open trials designed to ensure uniformity Mon, March 20, 6 p.m., West Valley Branch Library, San Jose. The artists face injustice and mic nights. Open to tour groups by and prisons reoriented toward call for empathy to guide our appointment. Information: rehabilitation. I can think of no better Tue, March 21, 12 noon, Los Gatos Lodge. A special public actions and institutions. Artists 408-864-5464. place than Silicon Valley to discuss meeting of the Los Gatos Rotary Club, co-sponsored by Friends include the ASARO Collective, the steps we can take to create a legal of Los Gatos Library. Cost is $20 for a buffet lunch or $5 The public is invited to meet the Joseph Delappe, Adrian Discipulo, system that lives up to our ideals. beverage service only. Reservations for non-Rotary members artists at a reception with music Rodney Ewing, Tatyana I look forward to meeting you and are required by emailing [email protected] and payment must and refreshments and a brief Photo by: Joe Craig Fazlalideh, Yolanda Guerra, Taro starting this discussion.” be made at entry to the event using a credit card. Limited space program that includes a poetry Hattori, Jamil Hellu, David Izu, available. reading by Santa Clara County Emiko Omori, Oree Originol, Fri, Feb 24, 11 a.m., Saratoga Library, Saratoga. Poet Laureate Arlene Biala, on Samuel Rodriquez, Kristina Co-sponsored by Friends of the Saratoga Libraries. Tue, March 21, 7 p.m., Mountain View Public Library, Wed, Feb 15, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Sangsahachart and Judy Shintani. Special project with Marco Mountain View. Co-sponsored by Friends of Mountain View A free drop-in Art & Empathy Workshop with ongoing activities Marquez’s graphic design students. Public Library. is also scheduled for Sat, March 4, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. at Euphrat Fri, Feb 24, 6:30 p.m., Los Altos Library, Museum of Art. Los Altos. Adam will discuss his book Wed, March 22, 7 p.m., Campbell Library, Campbell. with Santa Clara County Assistant District Co-sponsored by Friends of Campbell Library. Attorney James Gibbons-Shapiro. Co- Bryan Stevenson sponsored by Los Altos Library Endowment. Thur, March 23, 12:30-1:30 p.m., Montgomery Hall, Evergreen Author, Just Mercy James Gibbons-Shapiro Community College, San Jose. Fri, Feb 24 Recognizing Our Wrongs Sat, Feb 25, 3 p.m., Morgan Hill Library, Morgan Hill. In conjunction with Tue, Feb 28 Co-sponsored by Friends of Morgan Hill Library and AAUW. Thur, March 23, 7 p.m. Santa Clara City Library, Central Park the San Jose State Whether it’s called bias, prejudice, stereotyping or bigotry, everyone has the Library, Santa Clara. Co-sponsored by Santa Clara City Library University Campus tendency to prejudge people. In this panel discussion, representatives of Sun, March 19, 1 p.m., Cupertino Community Hall, Foundation & Friends. Reading Program, the local programs that have a similar goal – helping people recognize their own Cupertino. Co-sponsored by Friends of Cupertino Library and Center for Literary Arts conscious and unconscious biased perceptions and how they are hurtful to Cupertino Library Foundation. Fri, March 24, 4 p.m., Educational Park Branch Library. presents Bryan Stevenson others – will describe their efforts. discussing #1 New York Panelists: Times bestseller Just Jon R. Gundry, Santa Clara County Superintendent Mercy, a powerful true of Schools, who is a national leader of the “My Name, Shaka Senghor story about the potential My Identity” initiative that promotes valuing different for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix Author, Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death, and cultures and languages by honoring and pronouncing our broken system of justice -- from one of the Redemption in an American Prison student names correctly. most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time. Co-sponsored by the NAACP. “I was once inspired by the many innovators Thur, March 23, 12 noon, Dr. Martin Luther King, Tuyen Flack, Deputy Director in Silicon Valley, and even behind prison Jr. Library, San Jose. Co-sponsored by Friends of Dr. of Silicon Valley FACES which 12 noon, Hammer Theatre, San Jose walls, I realized that I had the power to Martin Luther King, Jr. Library. is dedicated to creating and create my reality, and so do you. I hope promoting an empathetic and inclusive community my story inspires you to challenge injustice Thur, March 23, 7 p.m., Milpitas Library Auditorium, With POETree . . . and free of bias, bigotry and violence through experiential wherever you find it, and I look forward Milpitas. Co-sponsored by Friends of Milpitas Library. learning programs and advocacy. to adding to the current conversations justice for all happening across the country around justice Book Discussion Groups Ron Buford is Pastor of the and equal access for all.” Writing My Wrongs will be discussed at the following Mon, Feb 27 Join Santa Clara County Poet Laureate Arlene Biala Congregational Community public book group meetings. All are welcome to attend. Tue, March 21, 7 p.m., Cubberley Theater, Palo Alto. for a reading and poetry making event. Arlene Church in Sunnyvale and a leader of Racists Co-sponsored by Friends of Palo Alto Library and Palo Alto City Library. Tue, Feb 28, 6:30 p.m., Los Gatos Library will read poems focused on the Silicon Valley Anonymous, a nondenominational program Tue, Feb 28, 7 p.m., Gilroy Library Reads theme “. . . and justice for all” and then recently profiled by CBS News and NPR that uses Wed, March 22, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Conference Room B, invite participants to create some verse (“POETree the Alcoholics Anonymous 12-step model to address Fri, March 3, 10:15 a.m., Gilroy Library De Anza College, Cupertino. leaves”) or entire poems. The event will conclude prejudices. Mon, March 6, 7:30 p.m., Saratoga Library in a short Open Mic for anyone who would like to 7 p.m., Milpitas Library Auditorium Wed, March 22, 6:30 p.m., Gilroy Library, Gilroy. Co-sponsored by share what they wrote. Open to all ages. Friends of Gilroy Library. 4 7 p.m., Morgan Hill Library 5

Event listings in date order at SiliconValleyReads.org Event location addresses on page 11 INNOCENT In the Interests of Art & Spirit: Creative Art from the GUILTY Justice Mon, March 13 Incarcerated California law permits judges to dismiss A volunteer program called “Art & Staged Reading of Off-Broadway hit show most jail convictions when it is in the Building Trust with Spirit” in the Santa Clara County jails “interests of provides an opportunity for inmates to “The Exonerated” justice” to Procedural Justice express themselves through the creative Wed, March 8 do so. This Sun, March 12 arts. Some of the art pieces created by Local actors will perform a staged reading of this award- evening we individuals and groups Procedural Justice is a national initiative that focuses on the way police and other legal winning play by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen, which will hear of inmates based authorities interact with the public. It is based on four principles: treating people with is based on interviews with more than 40 exonerated the personal on the theme dignity and respect; giving citizens “voice” during encounters; being neutral in decision death row inmates across the U.S. One reviewer called stories of “Community, making; and conveying trustworthy motives. it “An artful and moving evening of documentary people who Transformation” theater … on one hand a devastating memorial to have been will be on display In this panel discussion, three local police chiefs with a combined total of more than injustice, but also a tribute to the resilience of human changed forever by the redemptive power in local libraries. 75 years of law enforcement experience in Santa Clara County will discuss how local hearts and minds.” It was performed off Broadway of an expungement in court. People For information police departments are using procedural justice to build trust with the community to more than 600 times and a special performance with who have had their records cleared will on locations and ensure individuals are being treated fairly and without bias. an all star cast was recorded and released as a film. speak regarding their experiences in exhibit dates, visit Parental guidance warning: mature content and moving past their convictions to reach SiliconValleyReads.org. Co-sponsored by Commonwealth Club Silicon Valley and League of Women Voters language. Local actors include Ramon Johnson, Estelle their potential. Students from the San Cupertino-Sunnyvale, Southwest-Santa Clara Valley and San Jose-Santa Clara chapters. Piper, Michael Riley, Gary De Mattei, Thomas Times, Jose State University Record Clearance Hiring Without Bias Project will discuss how the process of Nick Dale, Joel Butler, Sarah Kishler and Corey Jackson. Dennis R. Burns, Phan Ngo, 27-year Wed, March 1 The cast will discuss the play with audience members helping their clients changed their own Blind auditions are a standard practice views on education, justice and life. recently retired veteran of San Jose following the performance. Chief of Police for Police Department in the symphony world. Musicians play behind a screen so that decision-makers 6:30 p.m., Student Union Theater, the City of Palo and newly-installed 7 p.m., Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, San Jose are not swayed by their age, gender, race/ San Jose State University, San Jose Alto who joined the Chief of the City department in 1982 of Sunnyvale ethnicity – the music performance stands Department of on its own merits. Public Safety In this program, Liz David Honda, Kofman, Ph.D., staff 25-year veteran Moderator: sociologist at Unitive, Race and Prosecutions of San Jose Police Barbara Marshman, will describe how Department who in Editorial Page Editor, Tue, March 21 corporations are 2016 became Police Mercury News increasingly using Library Fair Chief for the City of technology tools to Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen will speak Tue, March 7 Watsonville find the best qualified on the “Race and Prosecutions” study released in 2016 that Teen author Paul Volponi will be candidates for their found Latinos and blacks are charged with misdemeanors the special guest speaker at this 2 p.m., Cupertino Community Hall, Cupertino jobs (and diversify their workforce) by and felonies at a higher rate than their proportion of the annual event for teachers, school mitigating unconscious bias throughout population. In releasing the results, DA Rosen launched librarians and the public. Book the hiring process. an effort to identify and root out any systemic causes signing follows his talk. behind the inequities. Finding Justice for the Innocent 7 p.m., Sunnyvale Public Library 10-11:30 a.m., Santa Clara County In 2001, new legislation was adopted in California permitting convicted inmates to 7 p.m., Saratoga Library, Saratoga Office of Education seek DNA testing to prove their innocence. Since that time volunteers and staff of the Northern California Innocence Project, a nonprofit clinical program of Santa Panel Discussion Clara School of Law, have worked to protect the rights of the innocent. Through their Sun, March 5 Islamaphobia for Fun and Profit: Why Stereotypes efforts, the Innocence Project has helped 18 people prove their innocence after they Based on Adam Benforado’s book, Unfair: had, collectively, spent more than 230 years in prison. A New Science to Criminal Injustice, Indian about Islam and Muslims Persist Business & Professional Women will host Maitreya Badami, Assistant Legal Director of the Northern a panel discussion to examine our biases Fri, March 10 towards race, culture, education, religion, Why are there so many negative stereotypes of Ali-Karamali, author of The Muslim Next Door: The California Innocence Project, will describe how she and her financial status and demographics. The Islam and Muslims? Stereotypes permeate film, Qur’an, the Media, and that Veil Thing, discusses colleagues promote a fair, effective and compassionate criminal conversation will explore our comfort television, books (both academic and popular), the historical, psychological and monetary reasons justice system, and she will share some of the heart-wrenching zones and discuss how to expand our media and the Internet. Why, despite significant behind the stereotypes. Co-sponsored by Los Altos personal stories of falsely imprisoned people they have perspectives to become more tolerant, efforts, have these stereotypes only increased Voices for Peace. represented. open and non-judgmental human beings. rather than decreased in recent years? Sumbul 7 p.m., Los Altos Library Sun, Feb 26, 2 p.m., Cupertino Community Hall Co-hosted by India Community Center. or 3:30 p.m., India Community Center, Sat, March 18, 2 p.m., Gilroy Library 6 Milpitas 7

Event listings in date order at SiliconValleyReads.org Event location addresses on page 11 Scottsboro: An Witch Hunt Sean Penn narrates this documentary American Tragedy about a local justice system that abused its In 1931, two white women stepped off a own power. It tells the story of California boxcar in Paint Rock, Alabama, with a resident John Stoll, who was arrested shocking accusation of gang rape by nine and subsequently charged with multiple black teenagers on the train. So began cases of child molestation, including his the Scottsboro case, one of the 20th own son. In the 1980s, Stoll’s was only century’s fieriest legal battles. The youths’ one of an epidemic of false convictions in trial generated the sharpest regional the area. Through interviews with those American Denial Presunto Culpable (Presumed conflict since the Civil War, led to momentous Supreme Court In 1944 Nobel Laureate Gunnar Myrdal unjustly arrested, the film examines the morally hysteric climate decisions, and helped give birth to the civil rights movement. asked: How could America’s belief in Guilty) that contributed to the situation. 90 minutes 84 minutes liberty and equality also enable Jim Crow In December 2005, Toño Zuniga was picked up off the street in Mexico City segregation? This PBS documentary uses Saratoga Library Tue, Feb 21, 7 p.m., Saratoga Library Tue, Feb 7, 7 p.m., Myrdal’s inquiry to probe — through a and sentenced to 20 years for murder Wed, March 1, 6:30 p.m., Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library Wed, March 15, 6:30 p.m., Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library diverse chorus of commentators — the based on the testimony of a single, Fri, March 3, 12:30 p.m., Educational Park Branch Library power of unconscious biases today shaky eyewitness. This film, in Spanish Sat, March 11, 1 p.m., Joyce Ellington Branch Library in what some have called post-racial with English subtitles, tells the heart- Tue, March 14, 4 p.m., Hillview Branch Library America. 60 minutes wrenching story of a man who happened Tue, March 14, 7 p.m., Los Altos Library to be in the wrong place at the wrong Wed, March 29, 5:30 p.m., Village Square Branch Library Sat, Feb 25, 11 a.m., Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library time. 88 minutes “Witch Hunt” director Dana Nachman will Wed, March 1, 6:30 p.m., Gilroy Library introduce the film and be on hand after the Sat, Feb 25, 3 p.m., Biblioteca Latinoamericana Branch Library 13th Fri, March 3, 4 p.m., Almaden Branch Library showing for Q&A. Sat, March 4, 1:40 p.m., Palo Alto City Library, This 2016 documentary by director Ava Sat, March 4, 4:50 p.m., Palo Alto City Library, DuVernay has won critical acclaim and Rinconada Branch Rinconada Branch Sat, March 4, 2 p.m., Alum Rock Branch Library many critics list it as one of the best Thur, March 9, 5 p.m., Edenvale Branch Library films of the year. It is an in-depth look Mon, March 13, 5:30 p.m., Rose Garden Branch Library Tue, March 14, 6:30 p.m., Mountain View Public Library Wed, March 22, 4 p.m., East San Jose Carnegie Branch Library at the prison system in the U.S. and how Tue, March 14, 5:30 p.m., Bascom Branch Library it reveals the nation’s history of racial Thur, March 16, 1 p.m., Campbell Library inequality. The film is titled after the 13th Sat, March 18, 1 p.m., Joyce Ellington Branch Library Scenes of a Crime Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that Silicon Valley Reads One of the most honored justice outlawed slavery (unless as punishment documentaries in recent years, this true for a crime). The documentary argues Film Festival @ Bluelight The Central Park Five that slavery is being effectively perpetuated through mass In 1989, five black and Latino teenagers crime documentary explores a haunting incarceration. 100 minutes Cinemas from Harlem were arrested and later question: Why would an innocent All showings are free and begin at 6 p.m. convicted of raping a white woman man confess to something he didn’t Thur, March 2, 6:30 p.m., Los Altos Library in New York City’s Central Park. “The do? Police investigating the suspicious Sun, March 5, 2 p.m., Palo Alto City Library, Mon, March 6 – Twelve Angry Men Central Park Five” tells the story of that death of a four-month-old boy secretly Rinconada Branch Wed, March 8 – Scenes of A Crime horrific crime, the rush to judgment video-recorded nearly 10 hours of their Sun, Feb 5, 2 p.m., Milpitas Library Mon, March 13 – The Central Park Five by the police, a media clamoring for interrogation of the child’s father, Adrian sensational stories and an outraged Thomas. The video provides a window Wed, March 15 – Witch Hunt public – and the five lives upended by this on the hidden world of police interrogation techniques in Twelve Angry Men Mon, March 20 – American Denial miscarriage of justice. 120 minutes wide use by investigators in the U.S., and became the focus Wed, March 22 – Scottsboro: An American Tragedy of a contentious and controversial criminal trial in New York. A jury argues a case in a stuffy room on a hot summer’s day. Eleven say “guilty!” To guarantee a seat, make a reservation at Sat, March 4, 11:30 a.m., Palo Alto City Library, The case – and the film – drew the attention of the Innocence Project, Center on Wrongful Convictions, and other legal But one holdout is convinced of the CupertinoLibraryFoundation.org Rinconada Branch defendant’s innocence and stubbornly Tue, March 7, 6:30 p.m., Saratoga Library advocates, and the resulting appeal brought new standards for police interrogation. 88 minutes argues “reasonable doubt.” This tense Fri, March 10, 12:30 p.m., Educational Park Branch Library courtroom drama is a remake of the Thur, March 16, 5 p.m., Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library Sidney Lumet 1957 classic and was Tue, March 21, 1 p.m., Evergreen Branch Library Sat, March 4, 1:30 p.m., Willow Glen Branch Library Sat, March 4, 3:10 p.m., Palo Alto City Library, produced for the Showtime cable Rinconada Branch network. 96 minutes Mon, March 6, 7 p.m., Campbell Library Wed, March 8, 6:30 p.m., Sunnyvale Theater Tue, Feb 28, 1 p.m., Evergreen Branch Library Sat, March 11, 11 a.m., Cambrian Branch Library Sat, March 4, 1 p.m., Joyce Ellington Branch Library Sat, March 11, 11:30 a.m., Gilroy Library Sun, March 5, 3:50 p.m., Palo Alto City Library, Tue, March 14, 1 p.m., Evergreen Branch Library Rinconada Branch Fri, March 17, 12:30 p.m., Educational Park Branch Library Thur, March 9, 6:30 p.m., Mountain View Public Library Thur, March 23, 5 p.m., Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library Sat, March 11, 2 p.m., Alum Rock Branch Library Wed, March 22, 5 p.m., Edenvale Branch Library 8 Wed, March 29, 4 p.m., East San Jose Carnegie Branch Library 9

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Writing About Wrongs What does “justice for Activity Programs Storytimes An essay contest for teens all” mean to you? These programs will be offered at many Mandarin/English – Thur, March 2, 11 a.m., ages 12-18 A creative challenge public libraries in February and March. Los Altos Library Check with your local library for dates Teens ages 12 to 18 are invited to enter to tweens in grades 6-8 Spanish/English – Sat, March 4, 10:15 a.m., and times. the “And Justice for All” essay contest Students in grades 6-8 throughout Santa Morgan Hill Library sponsored by San José Public Library. Clara County are invited to think about ABCs of Social Justice Spanish/English – Mon, March 6, 7 p.m., Essays of 400-500 words should describe this year’s Silicon Valley Reads theme “… Children ages 5-10 are invited to make Gilroy Library a social injustice and propose a solution to and justice for all” and put their creative and illustrate their own “ABCs of Social that injustice. A panel will select winners Vietnamese/English – Thur, March 9, 11:30 a.m., “With POETree . . . talents to work to explain what these Justice” books and talk about what the for first, second, and third place prizes of Tully Branch Library powerful words mean to them. Creative concepts of “fairness” and “social justice” and justice for all” $250, $100, and $50 respectively. Pick up categories include: mean. an entry form starting Feb. 23 at any San Family Reading Program Teens are invited to join Santa • Poetry (any style including free verse, José Public Library location. The deadline FIRST 5 Santa Clara County will host readings Clara County Poet Laureate rap, song, acrostic, etc.) Unity Wreath for essay submission is March 17. of Bear and Bee for children under the age of Arlene Biala for a reading and Children will create a wreath of • Essay/Written Speech 6 and their families at local Family Resource poetry making event. Arlene handprints of different sizes and colors will read poems focused Writing Workshops with • Narrative (non-poetry) Centers, open to the public. The first 40 to take home. Storytimes at many libraries in February families in attendance at each event will receive on the Silicon Valley Reads Paul Volponi • Visual (any style including graphic and March will feature a reading of a free copy of the book to take home. theme “. . . and justice for all” During his visit image, poster, cartoon, etc.) Bear and Bee by Sergio Ruzzier. Some and then invite participants to Tue, Feb 14, 2-4 p.m., Chávez Family Resource to Silicon Valley storytimes will have guest readers create some verse (“POETree Center, San Jose for a series of One student in each category will including Earthquakes players and local leaves”) or entire poems. The special Silicon be randomly selected to receive a elected officials – check with your local Fri, Feb 24, 10 a.m.-12 noon, CHAC Family Resource event will conclude in a short Valley Reads $25 Amazon gift card. Some entries library for dates and times. There will Center, Mountain View Open Mic for anyone who presentations will be posted on the Silicon Valley also be special bilingual readings of Bear Fri, March 3, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Northwood Family would like to share what they at local high Reads website and displayed in local and Bee, including: Resource Center, San Jose wrote. public libraries and the Santa Clara schools, Vietnamese/English – Wed, March 1, Tue, March 28, 6 p.m., County Office of Education Learning Fri, March 10, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Educare Family award-winning Young Adult author 5:30 p.m., Seven Trees Branch Library Saratoga Library Paul Volponi will offer creative writing Multimedia Center. Identification of Resource Center, San Jose workshops for teens. Two of his 14 participants will include first name only, Community Kindness Quilt fiction books – Black and White and grade and school. Participants will draw or write in a square Silicon Valley Reads 2017 Event Locations things that describe what all people Rikers High – incorporate his experience Almaden Branch Library Cupertino Community Hall Heritage Theater Rose Garden Branch Library as a teacher of incarcerated youth at Each entry must fit on one side of an have in common. The squares will be 6445 Camden Ave., San Jose 10350 Torre Ave., Cupertino 1 W. Campbell Ave., Campbell 1580 Naglee Ave., San Jose Rikers Island in New York. 8.5x11 sheet and stapled to the entry form assembled into Community Kindness Alum Rock Branch Library Cupertino Library Hillview Branch Library Santa Clara Central Park Library that can be picked up at public libraries Quilts for display in the library. 3090 Alum Rock Ave., San Jose 10800 Torre Ave., Cupertino 1600 Hopkins Dr., San Jose 2635 Homestead Rd., Santa Clara Wed, March 8, 7-8:30 p.m., Cupertino in Campbell, Cupertino, Gilroy, Los Bascom Branch Library De Anza College India Community Center Santa Clara County Office of Education Library – Limited to 15. Advance Altos, Milpitas, Morgan Hill, San Jose and 1000 S. Bascom Ave., San Jose 21250 Stevens Creek Blvd., Cupertino 525 Los Coches St., Milpitas 1290 Ridder Park Dr., San Jose registration required. Saratoga or downloaded from the Silicon Berryessa Branch Library Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library Joyce Ellington Branch Library Santa Teresa Branch Library 3355 Noble Ave., San Jose 150 E. San Fernando St., San Jose 491 E. Empire St., San Jose 290 International Circle, San Jose Thur, March 9, 4-5:30 p.m., Dr. Martin Valley Reads website, SiliconValleyReads. Luther King, Jr. Library Biblioteca Latinoamericana East Carnegie Branch Library Los Altos Library Saratoga Library org. Entries can be submitted at any Branch Library 1102 E. Santa Clara St., San Jose 13 S. San Antonio Rd., Los Altos 13650 Saratoga Ave., Saratoga 921 S. First St., San Jose of the participating libraries or sent Edenvale Branch Library Los Gatos Library Seven Trees Branch Library Family Program with through your school to the Santa Clara Bluelight Cinemas 101 Branham Lane East, San Jose 100 Villa, Los Gatos 3590 Cas Dr., San Jose 21275 Stevens Creek Blvd., Cupertino Sergio Ruzzier County Office of Education Learning Educare Family Resource Center Los Gatos Lodge Student Union, San Jose State University Multimedia Center. You may also send Calabazas Branch Library 1399 Santee Dr., San Jose 50 Los Gatos-Saratoga Rd., Los Gatos 211 S. 9th St., San Jose Sergio Ruzzier, 1230 S. Blaney Ave., San Jose entries via email to [email protected]. Educational Park Branch Library Milpitas Library Sunnyvale Public Library author of Bear Deadline for entries is March 15 and Cambrian Branch Library 1771 Educational Park Dr., San Jose 160 N. Main St., Milpitas 665 W. Olive St., Sunnyvale and Bee, will end 1780 Hillsdale Ave., San Jose winners will be announced by March 24. Other Special Activities Euphrat Museum of Art, Morgan Hill Library Sunnyvale Theater a week of special Books and Art: Kindness Counts Campbell Library De Anza College 660 W. Main Ave., Morgan Hill 550 E. Remington Dr., Sunnyvale 77 Harrison Ave., Campbell 21250 Stevens Creek Blvd., Cupertino programs at Stories and art projects for families Mountain View Public Library Tully Community Branch Library local elementary CHAC Family Resource Center Evergreen Branch Library 585 Franklin St., Mountain View 880 Tully Rd., San Jose Wed, March 1, 3:30 p.m., Campbell Library Trinity United Methodist Church 2635 Aborn Rd., San Jose Northwood Family Resource Center Village Square Branch Library schools with a 748 Mercy St., Mountain View Storywalk and Friendship Craft Evergreen Valley College Northwood Elementary School, 4001 Evergreen Village Square, San Jose public program Chávez Family Resource Center 3095 Yerba Buena Rd., San Jose Bldg. 700 Vineland Branch Library Tue-Thur, Feb 21-23, all day, Cupertino César Chávez Elementary School 2760 E. Trimble Rd., San Jose for children and Gilroy Library 1450 Blossom Hill Rd., San Jose Library 2000 Kammerer Ave., Room 20, 350 W. Sixth St., Gilroy Palo Alto City Library, Rinconada Branch parents. San Jose West Valley Branch Library 1213 Newell Rd., Palo Alto Friendship Storytime Hammer Theatre 1243 San Tomas Aquino Rd., San Jose Sat, March 4, 11 a.m., Berryessa Branch Cubberley Theatre 101 Paseo de San Antonio Walk, Pearl Avenue Branch Library Stories, songs, craft 4000 Middlefield Rd., Palo Alto Willow Glen Branch Library Library San Jose 4270 Pearl Ave., San Jose 10 Thur, Feb 23, 10:30 a.m., Saratoga Library 1157 Minnesota Ave., San Jose 11

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Cupertino Library Foundation Friends of Gilroy Library Friends of Sunnyvale Public Library Friends of Almaden Branch Library Friends of Los Gatos Library Friends of the Saratoga Libraries Friends of Bascom Branch Library Friends of Milpitas Library Santa Clara City Library Friends of Campbell Library Friends of Morgan Hill Library Santa Clara City Library Foundation Friends of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Friends of Mountain View Public and Friends Library Library And many individuals! Friends of Palo Alto City Library To see a complete list of sponsors, visit SiliconValleyReads.org COMMUNITY PARTNERS

Barnes & Noble Gilroy Library Los Gatos Library San Jose State University Campus Bluelight Cinemas Hicklebee’s Bookstore Los Gatos Rotary Reading program BookSmart India Community Center Milpitas Library San Jose State University Record Campbell Library Indian Business & Professional Morgan Hill AAUW Clearance Project Chávez Family Resource Center Women Morgan Hill Library Santa Clara City Library Center for Literary Arts League of Women Voters – Southwest Mountain View Public Library Santa Clara County Reading Council CHAC Family Resource Center Santa Clara Valley, Cupertino- Northern California Innocence Project Saratoga Library Commonwealth Club Silicon Valley Sunnyvale and San Jose-Santa Clara Northwood Family Resource Center Silicon Valley FACES Cupertino Library chapters Recycle Bookstore Sunnyvale Public Library De Anza College LiveSV Rotary Club of San Jose Village House of Books Educare Family Resource Center Los Altos Library San José Public Library West Valley College Evergreen Valley College Los Altos Voices for Peace With special thanks to Deborah Anthonyson, Diana Argabrite, Allison Book-Arango, Sarah Kishler, Gail Mason, Beth Olshewsky, Don Phillips, Trina Richbourg, Leslie Tanaka-Loza, Jennifer Weeks and Therese Wiese SCHOOL PARTNERS

Silicon Valley Reads is proud to present educational programs in local public schools including: Franklin Elementary School Lynbrook High School Palo Alto High School Homestead High School Murdock Portal Elementary School Sherman Oaks Elementary School Luigi Aprea Elementary School Nimitz Elementary School Sobrato High School Luther Burbank School Osborne School Wilcox High School SILICON VALLEY READS COMMUNITY ADVISORY BOARD

Co-Chairs Board Members Rhonda Farber, Ph.D. Deepka Lalwani Alyce Parsons Jill Bourne Tom Atkinson Alice Gosak Jane Light Sal Pizarro Mary Ann Dewan, Ph.D. Diana Bautista Stacey Greenwell Jack Lucas, Ed.D. Josh Russell Nancy Howe Muhammed Chaudhry Jon R. Gundry Rosanne Macek Carmen Sigler Mark Coker Margaret Hengel Michelle McGurk Marisa Spatafore Jacquie Davidson Kara Iwahashi Mary McLane Geri Weimers Joseph DiSalvo Robert Kieve Diane McNutt