Join the ACLU of Wisconsin Foundation to recognize Banned Books Week. We will be highlighting the careers of Maurice Sendak, author of Where the Wild Things Are, as well as Ray Bradbury who passed away this year. We will also highlight the continued suppression of ethnic and women's studies books in Tucson, Arizona schools. Read more about the ACLU's history in defending free speech and the right to read.
Thanks to event sponsors: Woodland Pattern Book Center, Wisconsin Center for the Book, Art Night Books and Lost World of Wonders, Milwaukee's largest comic book store. Thanks to the official Banned Books event afterparty location, Riverwest Public House Cooperative. Join us at the Riverwest Public House to find out what the censorship-themed drink special will be on the menu. Also thank you to Devin Trudell from Art Night Books for creating artwork for the event. Food and wine is donated by Angela Trudell Vasquez, Devin Trudell and the Riverwest Co-op.
If you would like to be a sponsor of this event, contact us at liberty@aclu-wi.org.
You can also find out about Banned Books Week events happening around the country at www.bannedbooksweek.org/events. If you have an event happening in your Wisconsin community, please submit the information to the national website and we will mention it with other media coverage of the week.
Join the discussion about banned books in Wisconsin on the "I Read Banned Books - Wisconsin" Facebook group.
