Past Events

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Saturday, Feb 4, 2:30pm – Tom Sawyer: On Film & On the Page

New Dorp branch–NY Public Library, 309 New Dorp Lane, SINY 10306 Tom Sawyer reading & film screening. Perfect for all ages! For directions via public transportation, visit www.hopstop.com

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Sunday, Jan 29, 3pm – Race Issues In Mark Twain

Staten Island Community Charter School, 309 St Paul’s Ave (at Beach St), SINY 10304 A community dialogue on language & dialect in Tom Sawyer & Huck Finn. Since their publications, Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn have been controversial books. Over the past 150 years, they’ve been banned, they’ve been condemned, and sometimes they’ve been yanked from library shelves. Originally, the … Read More

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Saturday, January 28, 1:30pm Kickoff Celebration: Paint Tom’s Fence!

Richmondtown branch, New York Public Library 200 Clarke Ave, SINY 10306 This is our Kick-Off event for The Big Read – Tom Sawyer. Tom Sawyer tricked his friends into doing a messy chore: Whitewashing a big ole fence. But at OutLOUD’s fence-painting party, you won’t get paint on your shoes. Instead, you can have fun decorating Tom’s picket fence with … Read More

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The Big Read – Tom Sawyer

National Endowment for the Arts Selects Staten Island OutLOUD to Host “The Big Read” in Our Community. Staten Island OutLOUD has been selected to by the National Endowment for the Arts to host The Big Read, a program designed to revitalize the role of literary reading in American popular culture. OutLOUD is one of only 76 organizations nationwide to receive … Read More

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Declaration of Independence, Sat June 29, Conference House

DeclarationStaten Island OutLOUD’s annual reading of the Declaration of Independence, at the historic Conference House, 7455 Hylan Blvd (at Satterlee St SINY 10307.  Sat, June 29, 2013 at 2pm.

Staten Island OutLOUD invites neighbors to gather to read the Declaration, together with other compelling historic documents.  Meet us on the lawn in front of the Conference House.  PLEASE BRING A LAWNCHAIR!  If it rains, we’ll gather inside the historic house, in the marvelous ground-level kitchen.

More details TBA.

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