Spring 2015 News and Calendar

Artist Nick Lu, from the book Why LA? Pourquoi Paris? Library Foundation News Los Angeles Public Library News

Giving Thanks to Our Bibliophiles Bridging the Digital Divide One Library Patron at a Time

“Libraries are essential to the Los Angeles Bibliophiles, members of the planned giving society With our ever-growing reliance on technology to navigate our daily lives, it’s shocking they recognize me and I can speak Spanish with them.” Bryan Bazalar, another community,” say Randy and George Beckwith. “They who love the Los Angeles Public Library and are to hear that one-third of Angelenos still do not have Internet at home. As millions bilingual Cybernaut and nearby resident of his Panorama City branch, are the open door to information and learning for all helping to ensure it remains a vital civic asset for turn to the Los Angeles Public Library for free access to computers, the Internet, considers himself lucky to be a part of such an inspiring program, which was residents and it is critical that their mission continues future generations. The Library Foundation would like wireless access, eBooks, eMusic, and eEverything, simply getting to a computer is partially conceived as a way to offer meaningful job training to young adults. into the next century. That is why we support the to thank all of the generous Bibliophiles for leaving a only solving part of the problem. For those who are inexperienced or uncomfortable He’s currently getting his Masters in Library Science and loves the everyday Library Foundation of Los Angeles both with current legacy to the nearly four million children, teens, and using technology, the Library Foundation supports the Cybernauts program, challenges of problem solving. gifts and through our bequest.” The Beckwiths are adults served by the Los Angeles Public Library each offering personal concierge-like technology assistance to Library users of all ages. “The Internet is not always a clear solution, so I enjoy sitting down with a patron what the Library Foundation affectionately calls year and for years to come. “What’s great about the Cybernauts program is that it puts learning into play,” and getting their whole story, and then helping try to solve their issues,” says says Karen Gavidia, an enthusiastic Cybernaut at the Exposition Park branch. Bazalar. In his branch, he manages the Student Zones where he helps students Ann Albert Melissa Galben Sharon Oxborough “It’s about teaching and keeping patrons updated on technology that is constantly with research—teaching students how to use online search engines and find Maysoon Alsandook Eileen and Jon Gallo Sandra and Lawrence Post changing and piquing their interest about what’s out there.” Cybernauts are savvy information beyond cursory sites like Google and Wikipedia. But he also has and Majid Mohamed Ali Ami Gandhi Jean S. Rappaport at providing help on a range of issues—from creating email accounts, using word noticed a lot of basic questions arising from students and adults alike on Bob and Melissa Alvarado Judith E. Garratt Jack Rosenberg processing and photo sharing programs, to filling out job applications and tax forms. keyboarding issues, so he began offering a weekly keyboarding class to address Anonymous Mary E. Gay Suzanne Rosenblatt and Jeff Buhai “Teaching a lot of basic things has a long term impact on how people use these needs. technology,” explains Gavidia. Anissa and Paul Balson Beverly and Bruce Gladstone David and Susan Rosenblum “The biggest benefit that I see patrons get from our coaching is confidence, and Letter from the President Susan and Sean Barrett Henry Goichman Barbara J. Schwartz Like many of the Cybernauts, Gavidia is from the community she serves and has that’s very important to overcome fears of using the Internet,” says Bazalar. Randy and George Beckwith Dean Hansell Eileen D. Sever become a welcoming face in her neighborhood branch. “I used to be a regular patron This year, the Cybernaut program expanded to 32 neighborhood branches as well I have excellent news to report: the programs Barbara Bilson and Bert Woodruff Alan Harrow Myeong-Sim and Philip Young and a lot of patrons feel more comfortable coming in and asking questions because as Central Library thanks to the generous supporters of the Library Foundation. of the Los Angeles Public Library are currently Muriel P. Bodek Lorraine Hutton Ruth Simon serving record numbers of families, children Catherine and Jeff Brown Kristine Kadlec Carolyn Patricia and and students. The 2013-2014 fiscal year was Michael A. Bullock Stephen A. Kanter, M.D. Jean Tardy-Vallernaud the most successful on record for the Library Jacqueline and Henry Cahn Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Klein Marilyn R. Tauber As part of the Library’s mission to provide Foundation of Los Angeles. Vanessa Chang and Erik Hansen Lynne Knox and Kevan Lynd Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. Thayer, Jr. Florence and Kenneth Chotiner Nick J. Labedz Elizabeth and David Thompson free access to ideas and information, these This issue of the LFLA newsletter is our way Carla J. Christofferson Stephen O. Lesser Hsiu-Ann Tom of saying thank you to all who share a love and Adam Shell Don Marvurges Bonnie Tone innovative programs are also empowering of libraries and want to participate and show Bernice Colman Mildred Mayne Patrice S. Traeger individuals through technology supported their support in tangible ways. Diane and John Cooke Janice McCoy Miller Guadalupe M. Vela by the Library Foundation: My sense is that what we are experiencing Robert M. Cotten Brooks McEwen and Joshua Brand Jack G. Waldron is the result of inspired leadership from the Denise and Eddie De Ochoa Richard F. McKay Aviva Weiner and Paulino Fontes FULL STEAM AHEAD City Librarian John F. Szabo, as well as new Denise and R. Thomas Decker Gwen Miller Gloria and Thomas Wilson A fun, integrated science, technology, engineering, art, and math program that programs, expanded services and innovative Claude J. Dellevar Elizabeth and Donne Moen Scott B. Witter sparks the imagination, and develops perseverance, problem-solving, and ideas that, in part, reflect the vital partnership Alice R. Dick Margaret Moran Phyllis J. Yates self-confidence. The Library is collaborating with a number of partners, such as of the Los Angeles Public Library and the Daniel and Jeri Floyd Teryl Murabayashi McDermott Peg Yorkin Los Angeles Makerspace, Iridescent, Nine Dots, and The Exploratory, to teach Library Foundation of Los Angeles. RoseAnne and Thomas Frank Myra and Bruce Newman workshops in areas like computer programming, electronics and robotics, 3D What I am hearing (the “word from the modeling and printing, animation, filmmaking, and more. neighborhood libraries”), is that individuals in every community have never felt more welcome and supported by what is being Stay Home and Read a Book Ball LIVE HOMEWORK HELP offered by their public libraries. From free A free online tutoring service that offers one-on-one help with math, science, social studies, English, and Spanish to students in Kindergarten through access to technology, support workshops for Is there a more perfect way to support the cultural and educational programs of the Los Angeles Public Library first-year college as well as adult learners. kids, SAT study prep for teens, adult English than to curl up with a good book in your own home knowing that fellow readers all across the city are doing the language classes, to guidance on job searches, same thing at the same moment? What resonance! Join us, our event chair Junot Díaz, and other champions veteran services, and beginning the path of the Library by sending in your donation today and then celebrating the evening as only you know how. STUDENT ZONES to U.S. citizenship — libraries are much more Stay home, read a book, and have a ball! The following is a list of additional Patrons not included in the Stay Home Offering teens and children access to dedicated computers, equipment, and than alive — they are jumping! and Read a Book Ball invitation. furniture during the after-school hours, including the free use of books, If you have not recently had an opportunity subscription databases, printing, school supplies, trained personnel, and other LIBRARY HEROES LIBRARY ENTHUSIASTS to stop by your neighborhood library or the learning resources. ($10,000+) ($500-$999) magnificent Central Library downtown, do not hesitate to go and see for yourself. You will Wendy and Barry Meyer Arleen Burton not be disappointed and will experience Dr. and Mrs. Donald E. Dickerson ADULT LITERACY Committed to breaking the cycle of low literacy in our community, Adult firsthand what promises to be another record- LIBRARY ADVOCATES breaking year. Literacy Services help adults with English literacy skills below a sixth grade ($1,000-$2,499) LIBRARY ADMIRERS level to improve their reading and writing proficiency through one-on-one I’ll see you at the Library, Steven J. Novak ($250-$499) tutoring as well as self-directed, online practice. —Ken Brecher, President Aviva Weiner and Paulino Fontes Margaret and Danilo Bach Judy Felsenthal Jean Friedman Learn more about these Joan Haseltine Heinz Jacobson technology initiatives Megan and Kent Mouton at lfla.org and lapl.org. Marion A. Scharffenberger Mary Frances Whiting

2 Spring 2015 213.228.7500 lfla.org 3 Year in Review Financials

Here’s a snapshot of the growing community that made the Library Foundation’s 2013-2014 fiscal year a record-breaking year. LFLA 2013-2014 REVENUES LFLA 2013-2014 EXPENSES

Helping Students Succeed Student Zones: Established in 28 branches, 5% 10 Student Zones were renovated with 9% study-friendly furniture, new computers and 17% REVENUE Amount % equipment, and 15 Student Zone Helpers 2,439 Corporate $106,975 1% Live Homework Help: 29,728 individual tutoring sessions online were added to offer individual assistance to teens prepared for college Foundations $1,812,751 17% 13% children and teens. Individuals $2,903,674 27% with Student Smart Government $155,000 1% Student Zones: Other Revenue * $308,306 3% 30,000 students received after-school support 48% “Summer Reading Club creates a community of readers and 47% Revenue Subtotal $5,286,706 49% 11% motivates kids to participate, read, learn, have fun, and make 27% Endowment, Investment, friends. This positive library experience can last a lifetime.” Other Income $5,091,245 47% Summer Reading Clubs: Library Store $500,003 4% 32,532 children and teens read through their summer break —Madeline J. Bryant, Senior Librarian, Children’s Literature Department Grand Total Revenue $10,877,954 100% 19%

We Read Together: 3% EXPENSES Amount % 86,325 children and adults participated in story times 1% Program, Directly to the Library $2,930,888 48% Program, Other $1,180,668 19%

General and Administration $687,504 11% Note A: The increase in net assets of $4,710,968 Fundraising $819,259 13% is primarily due to the net unrealized and realized gain, Engaging the Imagination Lifelong Learning Library Store $548,667 9% of $4,200,990, on endowment investments at fiscal Total Expenses $6,166,986 100% year-end, the additional $250,000 bequest from ALOUD Adult Literacy Full STEAM Ahead Victoria E. Foote and new endowments established live audience members engaged in 58 CHANGE IN NET ASSETS (i.e., Claire Patterson-Hutto: $250,000, Sharon Oxborough: 13,596 stimulating conversations and performances 13,255 adults developed 1,690 individuals innovated Increase in Net Assets $4,710,968 (Note A) $50,000 and Lynn Strasburg Miller: $50,000). their English literacy skills by science, technology, engineering, % of LFLA’s Net Assets 13.48% art, and math workshops in 13 Cybernauts Library branches

STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES FOR THE YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 2014 STATEMENTS OF FINANCIAL POSITION 1,870 892 64,410 patrons guided Health Matters attended the copies of Carlos through the Library’s electronic BOARD TEMPORARILY PERMANENTLY ASSETS June 30, 2014 June 30, 2013 UNRESTRICTED UNDESIGNATED DIRECTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED TOTAL Cash and cash equivalents $751,095 $553,591 Santana’s memoir resources people benefited OPERATING ACTIVITY: Jeff Koons and 23,948 Investments 37,051,011 30,454,112 from health-related workshops SUPPORT & REVENUE sold and signed Contributions $1,402,655 $250,000 $2,643,732 $350,000 $4,646,387 Pledges receivable 1,750,024 3,548,368 John Waters and resources and guidance through at ALOUD— Over a half million Fund-raising events – net of Library store inventory 117,608 116,000 conversation— The Library Store’s electronic and printed healthcare enrollment direct expenses of $116,405 − − 640,320 − 640,320 Property and equipment, net 86,814 65,246 Store revenues, net of discounts 500,003 − − − 500,003 Interests in charitable remainder trusts 464,213 423,086 materials accessed. After ALOUD’s largest highest sales record 1,902,658 250,000 3,284,052 350,000 5,786,710 Other assets 53,708 100,863 the great success of last NET ASSETS RELEASED TOTAL ASSETS $40,274,473 $35,261,266 program to date year’s pilot program, Health FROM RESTRICTIONS 3,513,078 − (3,513,078) − − LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS Matters will expand in 2015. TOTAL SUPPORT AND REVENUE 5,415,736 250,000 (229,026) 350,000 5,786,710 LIABILITIES “The ALOUD programs provide me with the opportunity to EXPENSES Accounts payable $470 $4,660 enter the imagination and creative processes of authors Program Services Accrued expenses 86,619 129,990 Adopt-a-branch and computer aides 483,802 483,802 Deferred revenue 527,500 177,700 and performance artists, and because of that opportunity, Adult literacy 731,784 731,784 614,589 312,350 my vision has more depth and my understanding more Giving Back Technology 142,142 142,142 NET ASSETS strength. ALOUD fosters lifelong learning. Thank you.” Cultural programs 833,161 833,161 Membership The Council Unrestricted Exhibitions 23,634 23,634 —ALOUD audience member Available for general operations 1,921,836 2,138,136 Children’s programs 422,747 422,747 Library Foundation Members of The Council Board-directed endowment 17,013,501 14,909,629 4,236 330 Library awareness and collections 777,778 777,778 18,935,337 17,047,765 Members gave $1,793,551 to transform of the Library Foundation Teen programs 696,508 696,508 Temporarily restricted the Los Angeles Public Library Library Store 548,667 548,667 Last year ALOUD presented Specific purpose 3,286,609 2,945,032 Total Program Services 4,660,223 4,660,223 20 Years of The Council Endowment 6,701,637 4,569,818 has raised over 4 GRAMMY winners 3 Los Angeles Times increase since Supporting Services 9,988,246 7,514,850 last year General and administrative 687,504 687,504 1 Los Angeles Mayor Book Prize winners 10% Permanently restricted – endowment 10,736,301 10,386,301 $20 million Fund-raising 819,259 819,259 for the Library Total Supporting Services 1,506,763 1,506,763 Total Net Assets 39,659,884 34,948,916 3 National Book Young Literati Award winners 8 MacArthur TOTAL EXPENSES 6,166,986 6,166,986 TOTAL LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS $40,274,473 $35,261,266 hosted in Young Literati Members 45 authors 45 homes CHANGE IN NET ASSETS 327 FROM OPERATIONS (751,250) 250,000 (229,026) 350,000 (380,276) 4 Pulitzer geniuses for the 2013 Literary Feasts, The audited financials, complete with disclosure notes, are available for view and supporting programs for children NONOPERATING ACTIVITY download on the Library Foundation’s website, at lfla.org/about/newsroom Prize authors 6 international guests increase since 2012 and teens, cutting-edge technology, Interest and dividends 115,083 339,205 394,839 849,127 50% and adult literacy Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investments (12,571) 1,947,105 2,266,456 4,200,990 Literature Through an L.A. Lens Digitization Change in value of charitable 200 Seven Grand signature remainder trusts − − 41,127 41,127 Old Fashioneds drunk at 102,512 2,286,310 2,702,422 5,091,244 activities throughout the 70 Valley Times the 2014 Annual Toast, 14,589 432,438 (432,438) − − branch libraries reinterpreted Homer’s newspaper photographs were TRANSFERS which raised over CHANGE IN NET ASSETS (216,300) 2,103,872 2,473,396 4,710,968 The Odyssey protected and made accessible $100,000 for the Library’s BEGINNING NET ASSETS 2,138,136 14,909,629 7,514,850 $10,386,301 34,948,916 online to the public Summer Reading Clubs ENDING NET ASSETS $1,921,836 $17,013,501 $9,988,246 $10,736,301 $39,659,884

4 Spring 2015 213.228.7500 lfla.org 5 Celebrating Poetry Upcoming

ALOUD Spring Preview: The Extraordinary Tracy K. Smith Throughout the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet’s new unresolved conflicts that also characterized our I’m after when I’m writing is access to the unconscious. Young Literati memoir, Ordinary Light, radiant flashes of poetry relationship. But thinking things through in language But I also hope it might even be possible to draw from Seventh Annual Toast permeate Tracy K. Smith’s narrative. With great empathy was powerful, as was working with a memory until an sources of meaning that sit beyond the self. and attention to beauty, Smith recalls her childhood insight that was previously unrealized began to announce ALOUD takes place at the Los Angeles Public Saturday, March 28, 2015 at 8:00 PM growing up in a sheltered Northern California town, and itself. That kind of retrospection helped me to discover The LINE Hotel Library; we’re curious if you have any connections explores belief, loss, history, and what it means to be black for the first time some of the constant themes running to public libraries? in America. Set against the backdrop of her mother’s through my own life. Writing helped me, quite literally, Join Curators Roy Choi, Shepard and Amanda Fairey, Jason Reitman and illness and death, Smith struggles to understand her make sense of the major experiences I had lived. Smith: Oh of course! I spent afternoons after school all Kate Hudson along with Honorary Hosts, and Young Literati Members mother’s faith until she finds peace and a prayer-like through my childhood wandering the aisles in the public in celebration of the Los Angeles Public Library. The Seventh Annual Toast What were some of the other stories from your past solace through poetry. Before she takes the ALOUD stage library. And even as an adult, the Brooklyn and New York will explore the delicious and diverse literary history of L.A. that echoed in your memory and you wanted to this spring to discuss her moving account of a daughter’s Public Libraries have brought me right back to that explore on the page? Patron packages from $1250 journey, we caught up with Smith about the power of feeling of being a single small person in the presence of communing with language. Smith: I wanted to talk about race. I wanted to record innumerable vast worlds, all lined up on the shelves and VIP tickets available for $400 each and examine what it felt like growing up black in within reach. General admission tickets: $175 per person, $125 Young Literati Members Both poetry and memoir are deeply personal types California in the 1970s and 80s. I wanted to talk To purchase tickets, visit lfla.org. For more information, contact of writing. What sparked the need to write a memoir through some of my own religious preoccupations and that poetry could not fulfill? clarify for myself what God has meant in my life. Jennifer Kondo, Director of Young Literati, at [email protected] Smith: I wanted to get out of familiar territory with or 213.228.7326. In regards to exploring faith, you describe how the this story. I wanted to let go of the tools with which I as writing of poetry is a type of prayer. Many writers feel a poet was most familiar in order to truly explore and the opposite of being at peace while writing. How did interrogate this material. I’d been writing about my poetry come to offer you a kind of inward serenity? mother in poems for a long time, but prose required me to ask different questions, go after different kinds of Smith: I’m not saying that writing is easy, or that it’s an insights, say things more directly and interrogate the instant route to inner peace. But being able to reflect upon thought process on the page before the reader’s eyes. and to listen to experience in a way that is markedly quieter and more complex than what happens in real- Your memoir centers around the loss of your time, during the hectic, noisy, distracting day-to-day, mother. What were the challenges and/or rewards does to me feel purposeful and centering. I think that Coming Soon: Book Drop BASH! Thursday, May 28, 7:15 PM of grappling with such a difficult subject? prayer might be, for many people, a manner of reaching Smith: It was thrilling to recreate the feeling of being in out to something larger and more meaningful than Ordinary Light: A Memoir To Live and Dine in L.A. Saturday, April 18, 2015 at 8:30 PM my mother’s presence. It was a gift to go back and allow oneself; I feel the same way about poetry, even if what Tracy K. Smith Central Library these very specific memories to emerge. And yes, it was I am seeking to listen to or commune with is simply In conversation with Lynell George In the coming months, To Live and Dine in L.A. will bring to the table Library Foundation Members are invited to celebrate the literary life difficult to confront and acknowledge some of the another region of my own mind. My shorthand for what over 9,000 pieces from the Los Angeles Public Library’s vast menu of Los Angeles well into the night at the fourth annual Book Drop BASH, collection, featuring: the official after-party of the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes. Rub shoulders with your favorite authors, participate in the legendary book swap, • Citywide public programs Changing Lives: L.A.’s New Poet Laureate Luis J. Rodriguez enjoy music and drinks, and dance the night away in the breathtaking • A special exhibition at Central Library Central Library! “L.A. is the most culturally rich of U.S. cities, expansive L.A. schools. In those days, they punished us for speaking change and creative expression. By twenty, I had obtained in size, but also in spirit and imagination,” says Luis J. Spanish. And they didn’t teach us English well. I began an a high school diploma, painted murals, took part in • A new book by Angel City Press, edited by USC Annenberg Professor Not a Library Foundation Member? Contact Membership Director Rodriguez, who was appointed last October by Mayor intense street life—stealing at seven, breaking into schools community protests—and my first son was born. I had Josh Kun with contributions by Roy Choi, Susan Feniger, Megan Hamilton at [email protected] or 213.292.6242 to find Eric Garcetti as the second poet laureate in L.A. history. at 10, joining a gang at 11, drug use at 12. My parents tried transformed. Around five years later, I worked as a Nancy Silverton, Micah Wexler, and Joachim Splichal out how you can attend. Besides being an award-winning author of 15 books to keep a stable life, but my father worked as a custodian far reporter and recited poems at cafes and cultural spaces. and the founder of Tia Chucha’s Cultural Center and away, leaving early, coming late. My mother had her hands Books were there every step of the way. To watch the project come together, visit toliveanddinela.com. More information coming soon! Check lfla.org/bookdropbash. Bookstore in Sylmar, Rodriguez is a fierce community full with four rambunctious children, and when she worked activist. For forty years, he’s been active in gang peace it was in the garment district or cleaning homes. Somebody and youth development, deeply rooted in the urban fell through the cracks—it turned out to be me. I dropped consciousness of many neighborhoods across Los out of school at 15 and my parents promptly kicked me out Angeles. “We [Angelenos] have a complex history that of the house. I was briefly homeless in downtown L.A., includes diminishment, oppression, losses. But we also sleeping in abandoned cars, in all-night movie theaters, dream big and try to shape the world with big hands, along the L.A. River. But one thing that saved me was books. big hearts, big minds.” Rodriquez is whole-heartedly I loved to read as I learned more English. At 10, a teacher embarking on his new poet laureate post with plans of read aloud “Charlotte’s Web” and I was hooked. Libraries collaborating with the Los Angeles Public Library, as well became my refuge, in particular the Central Public Library, as schools, museums, community spaces, probation where I roamed the aisles during the day. I was the weird camps, juvenile halls, and more to make poetry “an homie with books under my arms. Nobody else in my family everyday, every occasion thing” across every community. or among my friends seemed to like books. Books never We asked how books changed his life, and here Rodriquez belittled me, beat me, or told me I’d “never amount to shares his personal story: anything.” Despite nights in jail, drug use and violent acts, In 1956 my family came to Los Angeles from the border area by age 19 I was done with “the crazy life.” I longed for another world, another person, one linked to deep social City Librarian John F. Szabo welcomed Luis J. Rodriguez as of Ciudad Juarez/El Paso. I didn’t speak English entering L.A. Poet Laureate at the Central Library

More Upcoming Poetry at ALOUD

Thursday, April 30, 7:15 PM Tuesday, May 19, 7:15 PM Writing Our Future A Seismographic Attention: Readings from Graduate Writing Programs An Evening Of and On Poetry with Jane Hirshfield of the Southland In conversation with Louise Steinman

6 Spring 2015 213.228.7500 lfla.org 7 A celebrated literary series of conversations, readings, and performances at the downtown Central Library, ALOUD brings together today’s brightest cultural, scientific, and political luminaries to the city of Los Angeles The Library Foundation Calendar Spring 2015 and beyond. ALOUD at Central Library programs are FREE, unless otherwise indicated. Programs are subject to change.

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RESERVATION POLICY Reservations are strongly recommended. As the majority of ALOUD programs are free of charge, it is our policy to overbook. In the Ana Tijoux Bill Jones. T. Credit: Stephanie Berger Karima Bennoune. Credit: Florence Low Thomas McGuane. Credit: Bruce Weber Jane Hirshfield. Credit: Michael Lionstar Jennifer Clement. Credit: Barbara Sibley Tolan Sandy case of a full program, your reservation may not guarantee admission. We recommend arriving early. Space permitting, unclaimed reservations are released at 7:00 PM to March April May standby patrons. Standby numbers are distributed for free programs one hour prior Wednesday, March 4, 7:15 PM Tuesday, March 10, 7:15 PM Tuesday, March 31, 7:15 PM Wednesday, April 8, 7:15 PM Thursday, April 23, 7:15 PM Thursday, April 30, 7:15 PM Tuesday, May 19, 7:15 PM to start time.

Gateway to Freedom: The War in Ukraine: Crow Fair: Stories The Light in Her Eyes Co-presented with the Los Angeles Writing Our Future A Seismographic Attention: Assistive Listening Devices available The Hidden History of the Propaganda and Reality Thomas McGuane Julia Meltzer and Laura Nix Philharmonic Association Readings from Graduate Writing An Evening Of and On Underground Railroad Timothy D. Snyder and In conversation with David L. Ulin, Film screening and Q&A Rebel Spirit: Lyrics Programs of the Southland Poetry AUTHOR SIGNINGS/BOOK SALES Eric Foner Masha Gessen book critic, Los Angeles Times Shot before the Syrian uprising of 2011, Our second annual gathering unites Jane Hirshfield ALOUD is one of the many free programs the of Power and Protest Library Foundation makes possible at the In conversation with Randall Kennedy, In conversation with Justinian Jampol, In his first collection in nine years, The Light in Her Eyes offers an Ana Tijoux students from five Southland graduate In conversation with Louise Steinman, Los Angeles Public Library. Most ALOUD author and Michael R. Klein Professor Founder and Executive Director, McGuane confirms his status as a extraordinary portrait of a leader who In conversation with poet and translator writing programs—CalArts, Otis curator, ALOUD author programs are followed by book sign- ings. To help sustain this valuable cultural of Law at Harvard Law School The Wende Museum and Archive of modern master of Big Sky country. With challenges the women of her community Jen Hofer College, UC Irvine, UC Riverside, and The masterful poet and essayist shares exchange, at least one copy of the author’s The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian the Cold War a comic genius that recalls Mark Twain, to live according to Islam without giving Raising her voice for women’s rights, USC—to share recent work and tune our her latest two works—Ten Windows: book must be purchased from The Library and consultant on the Academy A year ago, Russia invaded Ukraine, and his own beautiful way with words, up their dreams. At the heart of the immigration reform, environmental ears to the future of language. What are How Great Poems Transform the World, Store if you wish to participate in the post- program book signing. Proceeds support the Award-winning film12 Years a Slave destroying a peaceful order in Europe McGuane (The Bushwacked Piano, documentary is Houda al-Habash, activism, and more, GRAMMY- the ideas, forms, questions, syntaxes, a dazzling collection of essays on poetry, Los Angeles Public Library. Library Founda- discusses his latest book, which and placing its own regime at risk. Gallatin Canyon, Ninety-two in the a conservative Muslim preacher who nominated musician Ana Tijoux has images, and narratives of our immediate and The Beauty, her newest book of tion Members receive a 15% discount on all Library Store purchases. unearths extraordinary findings from We in the West have experienced this Shade) offers a jubilant and thunderous founded a Qur’an school for girls in transformed the global stage with her future? Who better as our compass in poems—for a close look at poetry’s Columbia University’s archives to shed historical turning point through a haze new batch of stories about life’s Damascus 30 years ago. The film politically powered verses. Unbounded the wilds of the now than emerging power to expand our perception of the LOCATION new light on the Underground Railroad. of propaganda. According to Snyder, complicated nature from the wilds captures the surprising cultural shift by geography and genre, Tijoux’s writers? perimeters of existence. Join Hirshfield Unless otherwise indicated, Join Foner in conversation with the Kremlin was perhaps wrong about of Montana. Join us for a reading and set in motion as these women claim songwriting reflects the literary as she walks us through many wonderful programs take place at: Harvard Law Professor Randall the political weakness of Ukraine, but conversation with one of America’s most their space within the historically male influences of her youth and the rich Thursday, May 14, 7:15 PM poems, examining how they work by Richard J. Riordan Central Library Mark Taper Auditorium Kennedy for an illuminating look at the likely right about some intellectual deeply admired storytellers. dominated mosque. Join local musical traditions of her native Chile. Co-presented with LéaLA, tuning our attention, renovating Downtown Los Angeles fraught history of American slavery and weaknesses of Americans and filmmakers Julia Meltzer and Laura Nix From Eduardo Galeano to Violeta Parra, Feria del Libro en Español de Los Ángeles language, and unfastening the mind. 630 W. Fifth Street the courageous acts of individuals who Europeans. When will the war end? Thursday, April 2, 7:15 PM for a rare look into an alternative hear—through conversation and song— Prayers for the Stolen Los Angeles, California 90071 defied the law in the fight for freedom This rare pairing of two essential experience of contemporary Islam. the inspirations that fuel her rebel spirit. Thursday, May 28, 7:15 PM Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Jennifer Clement PARKING decades before the Civil War. thinkers on Eastern European politics Here: Untold Stories Interpretation between Spanish and In conversation with Magdalena Ordinary Light: A Memoir Westlawn Garage, 524 S. Flower Street offers a revelatory look at why what Tuesday, April 21, 7:15 PM Parking validation available during Library from the Fight Against English will be provided by Antena Edwards, writer and editor at the Tracy K. Smith Thursday, March 5, 7:15 PM happens in Ukraine is of significant open hours. $1 for cars entering after 3:00 PM Muslim Fundamentalism Children of the Stone: Los Ángeles Los Angeles Review of Books In conversation with author and until 9:00 PM with validation. Co-presented with Center for the Art international importance. Karima Bennoune The Power of Music Inspired by the author’s years living journalist Lynell George of Performance at UCLA In conversation with in a Hard Land Monday, April 27, 7:15 PM in Mexico and ten years of field research, The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet SUPPORT ALOUD Story/Time: Monday, March 23, 7:15 PM Ani Zonneveld, President, Sandy Tolan this transporting, visceral novel tells discusses her new memoir, a gorgeous To support programs made possible by the The Great Divide: Library Foundation, call 213.228.7500 or visit Muslims for Progressive Values In conversation with Kelly McEvers, the story of young women in rural kaleidoscope of self and family that The Life of An Idea Unveiling North Korea Unequal Societies and What lfla.org Performance by Bill T. Jones with Fact and Fiction A veteran of twenty years of human NPR correspondent We Can Do About Them Guerrero who live in the shadows of the explores the meaning of home against with Talli Jackson and Adam Johnson and Blaine Harden rights research and activism and The veteran journalist and critically Joseph Stiglitz drug war. The poetic narrative of heroine a complex backdrop of race, religion, CENTRAL LIBRARY HOURS Erick Montes Chavero Coming together for the first time on recent recipient of the Dayton Literary acclaimed author of The Lemon Tree, Ladydi ­—disguised by her mother as and unbreakable bonds. With lyrical Monday – Thursday: 10:00 AM – 8:00 PM In conversation with journalist Friday & Saturday: 9:30 AM – 5:30 PM In conversation with Kristy Edmunds, stage, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Peace Prize, Bennoune offers an brings us another true story of hope Jim Newton a boy for protection from the vicious precision and a tender intelligence, Sunday: 1:00 – 5:00 PM Director, Center for the Art Adam Johnson and bestselling eye-opening chronicle of peaceful in the Palestinian-Israeli impasse. Stiglitz, winner of the 2001 Nobel cartels—shows great resilience and Smith delves into the life and death of Performance at UCLA nonfiction author Blaine Harden resistance to extremism in her recent His newest book, Children of the Stone, Memorial Prize for Economics, has time resolve as a young woman caught in of her mother, and her struggle to Not printed at City expense The multi-talented dancer, explore how their different paths of book. Scouring the globe for stories chronicles a young violist—Ramzi and time again offered a singular voice a real-life nightmare. This work by understand her mother’s steadfast choreographer, and director Bill T. storytelling led them to similar truths of heroic individuals —artists, doctors, Hussein Aburedwan—who escapes of reason to diagnose America’s greatest award-winning author and Christian faith until she discovers a Jones presents a provocative collage about illusive North Korea. Join lawyers, and educators — who challenge a Palestinian refugee camp and later economic challenges. In his provocative the former President of PEN Mexico, prayer-like solace in poetry. Lynell of movement, music, and personal Johnson, author of the spellbinding stereotypes of Islamist fundamentalism, returns to fulfill his dream: establishing new book, the bestselling author makes ensures that the most vulnerable voices George, whose own body of work narrative from Story/Time, a recent novel, The Orphan Master’s Son, and Bennoune shares these vivid portraits a music school with the help of Israeli an urgent case for Americans to solve cannot be silenced at a time when includes reflections about place, family, dance work produced by his company Harden, author of the new historical that offer an uplifting look at our best musicians including Daniel Barenboim, inequality now. Veteran journalist Jim fiction never seemed truer to fact than and her mother, leads an intimate and inspired by the legendary composer exposé, The Great Leader and the hopes for ending fundamentalist director of the Berlin State Opera and Newton engages Stiglitz in conversation, the present. conversation with Smith about the John Cage. This program coincides with Fighter Pilot: The True Story oppression worldwide. La Scala. Join Tolan for a moving extraordinary journey of a daughter. probing for answers to the greatest threat With special musical guest Ceci Bastida the publication of a new book based of the Tyrant Who Created North Korea conversation about how a love of music to American prosperity—the yawning on Jones’ brilliant hybrid work and and the Young Lieutenant Who Stole transforms and empowers lives in gap between the rich and the poor. meditations as an African American His Way to Freedom, for a fascinating a war-torn land. artist struggling to find a place in a discussion about the world’s longest- white-dominated dance world. Jones lasting totalitarian regime. ALOUD thanks its generous sponsors: Additional support provided by: Media support provided by: and two extraordinary dancers from his The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation Sharon Oxborough company will perform and then discuss The Estate of Suzanne Aran this powerful experiment in storytelling. 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