UPCOMING EVENTS

Aug 27:           

Ice Cream Social

CLOI Adult Literacy Book Club to discuss The Awakening at the Hattiesburg Public Library                                

Sept 3, 8 p.m.:         

Natasha Trethewey Reading as part of the Visiting Writer’s Series in Goz

Sept 24:           

CLOI Adult Literacy Book Club to discuss Their Eyes Were Watching God at the Hattiesburg Public Library

Sept 25, 5 p.m.:

Big Read Kickoff at the Cultural Center, downtown Hattiesburg

Sept 26, 7 p.m.:

Ellen Bryant Voigt to read for the Center for Writers Visiting Writers Series at the International Center Auditorium on campus

Sept 27:

Big Read Event at the Hattiesburg Public Library

Oct 2:

Professor Robert S. Levine to give talk entitled “Frederick Douglass and Haiti: The Secret History” as part of the Department of English Visiting Scholars Series

Oct 2, 12:30 & 6 p.m.:           

Big Read Event:  Showing of film version of Their Eyes Were Watching God & discussion at the Hattiesburg Public Library

Oct 5, 1 p.m.:                       

Pre-Performance Theater Talk for Waiting for the Parade

Oct 7, 7 p.m.:           

Big Read Event:  Book discussion at Main Street Books

Oct 9, 12:30 & 6 p.m.:           

Big Read Event:  Showing of Zora Is My Name & discussion at the Hattiesburg Public Library

Oct 9, 7 p.m.:           

Courtney Eldridge to read for the Center for Writers Visiting Writers Series at the International Center Auditorium on campus

Oct 14, Noon:           

Big Read Event:  Book discussion at Main Street Books

Oct 16, 12:30 & 6 p.m.:           

Big Read Event:  Showing of Zora’s Roots & discussion at the Hattiesburg Public Library

Oct 21, 6:30 p.m.:            

Big Read Event:  Lucy Hurston, niece of Zora Neale Hurston, to speak in conjunction with Honors Forum

Oct 23, 12:30 & 6 p.m.:           

Big Read Event:  Discussion of the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God at the Hattiesburg Public Library

Oct 25, 5 – 9 p.m.:            

Zora Neale Hurston Hat Parade, Art Walk in downtown Hattiesburg and Big Read Party at the Bottling Company

TBA, Oct:           

Bobbie Ann Mason to read for the Center for Writers Visiting Writers Series at the International Center Auditorium on campus

Nov 5, 7 p.m.:           

Ann Beattie to read for the Center for Writers Visiting Writers Series at the International Center Auditorium on campus

Nov 8:                       

USM Literature Conference

Nov 9, 1 p.m.:                       

Pre-Performance Theater Talk for The Cherry Orchard

TBA, Fall 2008                       

Beth Henley to read for the Center for Writers Visiting Writers Series at the International Center Auditorium on campus