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TLAC has been awarded a grant Books and Materials to Schools Advance distribution of free copies of "To Kill a Mockingbird" along with NEA Reader's Guides, Teacher's Guides, Audio Guides, posters and bookmarks to local schools and teachers. Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl TLAC will present information regarding upcoming Big Read events to participants and other attendees of the Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl. NEA materials and free copies of "To Kill a Mockingbird" will be distributed. Event Location: Freedom Middle School, 10550 Bells Ferry Road, Canton, GA 30114 Date: Tue, Jan 12, 2010 Main Street Sessions Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Presentation will include brief scenes from the book and the play performed by the Towne Lake Players as well as free materials from the NEA and free copies of the book. Discussion following. Event Location: 8588 Main Street, Woodstock, GA 30188 Date: Sat, Jan 16, 2010 Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl TLAC will present information regarding upcoming Big Read events to participants and other attendees of the Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl. NEA materials and free copies of "To Kill a Mockingbird" will be distributed. Event Location: Freedom Middle School, 10550 Bells Ferry Road, Canton, GA 30114 Date: Tue, Jan 19, 2010 Depression Era Photography Show A free program of scenes from the play and a book discussion of Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" at the Rose Creek Public Library in Woodstock. Free books and reader's guides will be distributed. Event Location: 4476 Towne Lake Parkway , Woodstock, GA 30189 Date: Tue, Feb 16, 2010 Hickory Flat Public Library Free Program A free program of scenes from the play and a book discussion of Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" at the Hickory Flat Public Library in Canton. Free books and reader's guides will be distributed. Event Location: 2740 East Cherokee Drive , Canton, GA 30115 Date: Tue, Feb 16, 2010 R.T. Jones Public Library Free Program A free program of scenes from the play and a book discussion of Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" at the R.T. Jones Public Library in Canton. Free books and reader's guides will be distributed. Event Location: 116 Brown Industrial Parkway, Canton, GA 30114 Date: Wed, Feb 17, 2010 Ball Ground Public Library Free Program A free program of scenes from the play and a book discussion of Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" at the Ball Ground Public Library in Ball Ground. Free books and reader's guides will be distributed. Event Location: 435 Old Canton Road , Ball Ground, GA 30107 Date: Wed, Feb 17, 2010 Woodstock Public Library Free Program A free program of scenes from the play and a book discussion of Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" at the Woodstock Public Library in Woodstock. Free books and reader's guides will be distributed. Event Location: 7735 Main Street , Woodstock, GA 30188 Date: Thu, Feb 18, 2010 Date: Thu, Feb 18, 2010 Tea with Scout and Aunt Alexandra (or "How to Take a Tomboy to a Fancy Restaurant") Come have tea with Scout, Aunt Alexandra and other ladies from "To Kill a Mockingbird" at Tea Leaves and Thyme in Downtown Woodstock! Event Location: 8990 South Main Street, Woodstock, GA 30188 Date: Fri, Feb 19, 2010 Jem's Scavenger Hunt Find items from the book "To Kill a Mockingbird" as you follow clues from place to place in Downtown Woodstock. Event Location: Downtown Woodstock Merchants, Woodstock, GA 30189 Date: Fri, Feb 19, 2010 Black and White Art Show & Fundraiser A unique art show and sale benefitting The Big Read in Cherokee County featuring works of local reknowned artists. Event Location: Roomscapes Gallery 390 Chambers St, Woodstock, GA 30188 Date: Fri Mar 5, 2010 An evening for teens with a mystery to solve and other activities focusing on the character of Boo Radley from "To Kill a Mockingbird". Event Location: 8534 Main St, Woodstock, GA 30188 Date: Sat, Mar 6, 2010
The TLAC Improv Troupe brings free programs into local Elementary Schools during February and March as part of the Big Read in Cherokee County. Public performances on Saturdays and Sundays at the Towne Lake Arts Center are only $6 per ticket. Event Location: 6576 Commerce Parkway, Woodstock, GA 30189 March 6-28 – Saturday and Sunday at 3pm All Seats $6.00 "To Kill a Mockingbird" stage play Christopher Sergel's famous stage adaptation of Harper Lee's novel presented by the Towne Lake Players at the Woodstock Community Church on Main St Woodstock. If you read the book and complete the Atticus Finch Subpoena to Appear your seat is free! Event Location: 8534 Main Street, Woodstock, GA 30188 March 9-27 Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30pm Closing Ceremony Closing ceremony for the Big Read in Cherokee County 2010 following the final performance of "Sneetches and Other Stories." Event Location: 6576 Commerce Parkway, Woodstock, GA 30189 Date: Sun, Mar 28, 2010 Tom Sawyer a Big Hit in County The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded the Towne Lake Arts Center and its partner organizations a $20,000 grant for The Big Read program. The annual program is a national project to encourage literacy by inviting entire communities to read the same book together and attend events celebrating the story. The arts center is one of 269 nonprofits nationwide to receive a portion of $3.7 million in grants awarded by the NEA this week. The maximum grant size is $20,000 - the amount won by the arts center. For this past school year's The Big Read, the first for the arts center, it won a $14,000 grant to promote reading Mark Twain's classic tale, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer." During the upcoming school year, the center will present programs centered on another Southern treasure: Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird." Set in the fictional "tired old town" of Maycomb, Ala., the novel tells a story of Southern life, racial injustice, courage and compassion through the eyes of a 6-year-old female narrator named Scout Finch. G. Lora Grooms, artistic director for the arts center, said she and her partners selected the book after polling Cherokee teachers. "Mockingbird" not only was a top choice, it is also required reading for Cherokee eighth-graders. A portion of the grant funds will be used to provide a free copy of the novel to every eighth-grader in Cherokee. Each student will also receive a reader guide, and teachers will be given special guides with ideas for classroom activities. Ms. Grooms said she looks forward to sharing themes of tolerance, prejudice and understanding with local children through a stage version of the novel and other special programs. "I've wanted to produce the play of 'To Kill a Mockingbird' for some time and now have a great reason to do so," she said, noting they will perform the stage adaptation by Christopher Sergel at the arts center. Children who read the book can complete an "Atticus Finch Subpoena to Appear" (named for a main character in the novel) for a free ticket to see the play. The subpoena will ask students to briefly answer two questions about how the book affected them. Other plans, she said, include programs and assemblies at local schools and libraries featuring actors from the cast. Mock trials, "Tea with Scout and Aunt Alexandra - or - How to Take a Tomboy to a Fancy Restaurant" and a Teen Mystery Night will be presented as well. A "Little Read" featuring "Sneetches and Other Stories" by Dr. Seuss with companion performances and assemblies will reach out to younger children, she said. "The Big Read highlights not only literature, but also what can be accomplished in partnership," NEA Acting Chairman Patrice Walker Powell said. The arts center's main partner is the Sequoyah Regional Library System. Ms. Grooms said they also will be working closely with the city governments of Canton and Woodstock, local businesses such as Microtel of Woodstock, Tea Leaves & Thyme in Woodstock, FoxTale Book Shoppe in Woodstock and Yawn's Books & More in Canton; and the Cherokee County Chamber of Commerce. Ms. Grooms said local businesses that want to join the effort are welcome, noting the arts center needs to raise matching funds from the community. She and the arts center board, led by Cheri Weitkamp of Woodstock, are ready for the challenge of fundraising and presenting the program, according to Ms. Grooms. This month, they and other event organizers attended the official Big Read Orientation in Minneapolis. Ms. Grooms said they also have the past year's success to build on, noting that more than 5,000 students and adults were reached during the six-week program and 2,000 copies of "Tom Sawyer," 7,500 readers guides and 75 teacher guides were distributed.
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