Dunkirk Free Library

Local College Students Launch Big Read at Dunkirk Free Library

March 27, 2010

Kick-off event for Dunkirk Free Library Big Read program: Saturday March 27th, hosted by SUNY Fredonia students Susan Kornacki and Kyle Georger. The kick-off event will feature a fun and interactive play on the front lawn of the library. SUNY Fredonia students will perform in the skit, performing scenes from the Big Read novel, My Antonia, by Willa Cather.

Following the performance, audience members will have an opportunity to interact with the performers over drinks and appetizers, which will be donated by surrounding businesses. The event will also feature locally made quilts on display in the library’s main vestibule, with a first-hand glimpse into the quilting process from members of the Westfield Quilting Guild.

The events of the day will conclude with a presentation by Kornacki and Georger, who will offer some critical insights about the novel as well as their work on the Big Read programming.

The Big Read is sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts, and local programming is sponsored by the Carnahan-Jackson Fund for the Humanities. The Dunkirk Free Library Big Read programming is a result of a project that brings together SUNY Fredonia English majors and local libraries around the county, all with the overall goal of reaching out to local communities to promote literary dialogue about the Big Read novel by running fun, engaging programs in the public sphere.