Here is information about The Big Read Keynote Lecture:

London devoted his whole career to grappling with the implications of Darwinian thought. Join us for this lecture presented by Dr. Lawrence I. Berkove, a University of Michigan-Dearborn emeritus professor and internationally recognized authority on Jack London. 

Visit bigreaddearborn.org for a list of over 35 "Call of the Wild" events, most of which are for ALL AGES. (The ones that aren't for all ages are for teens.)

Do You Hear the Call? 

Thank you,

Henry

Henry Fischer

Adult Services Librarian

Dearborn Public Library

16301 Michigan Ave.

Dearborn, MI 48126

(313) 943-2341 

hfischer@ci.dearborn.mi.us

 

The Big Read is coming to Dearborn! Do you hear the Call? Fun-filled activities and events centered on Jack London’s The Call of the Wild will take place in and around Dearborn in March through May 2014. The adventure – Call of the Wild: EmBARKING on Discovery – begins with a BIG kickoff free and open to the public at The Henry Ford in Anderson Theater on Saturday, March 8, 2014, 11 a.m.- 2 p.m.: http://www.thehenryford.org/events/thebigread.aspx. Sign up for email updates at www.bigreaddearborn.org!

 

Then we have the Keynote Lecture: Darwinian Issues in The Call of the Wild on Tuesday, March 18, 7-8 pm in the auditorium at Henry Ford Centennial Library. London devoted his whole career to grappling with the implications of Darwinian thought. Join us for this lecture presented by Dr.    Lawrence I. Berkove, an internationally recognized authority on Jack London.  

 

Another date to save is Saturday, April 26, 1-3 p.m. That’s when George Guidall, renowned actor and audiobook narrator, will give a presentation on “The Art and Artifice of Audiobook Narration,” and he will do a dramatic reading from The Call of the Wild. This event will take place in the auditorium at Henry Ford Centennial Library.

 

The Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest. The program is designed to revitalize the role of literature in American culture and to encourage citizens to read for pleasure and enlightenment.