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Walk/Run for Hope

Walk/Run for Hope

Sunday, October 14 from 12:00 to 3:00 p.m.

Frame Park  in Waukesha
1150 Baxter St.
Register today to help support Hope Center in Waukesha!
Waukesha Reads is also collecting new and gently used children’s books for Hope Center’s Free Children’s Library through the Children’s Books for Hope project. Donations are accepted at all Waukesha Reads events, most Waukesha Reads partner agencies and at Hope Center, 502 N. East Ave., Waukesha. Putting books in the hands and homes of children in need.
Sundays with TED.com

Sundays with TED.com

Let’s Take Back the Internet and Tracking the Trackers

Sunday, October 14 from 1:30-3:00 p.m.

Waukesha Public Library
321 Wisconsin Ave., Waukesha
View TEDTalk videos by Rebecca MacKinnon (New America Foundation) and Gary Kovacs (Mozilla), who look at issues of internet privacy and your right to know what data is being collected about you.
Explore ideas with Michael Zimmer, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies and Director, Center for Information Policy Research, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Join the Conversation!

Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world!

Food for Thought: Snacks and Scholars

Food for Thought: Snacks and Scholars

Politics, Philosophy and Propaganda in Orwell’s Work

Wednesday, October 10 at 6:00 p.m.
Waukesha Public Library
321 Wisconsin Ave., Waukesha

Join us for refreshments and intriguing discussion with local scholars:
Barbara Reinhart (UW-Waukesha)
Tim Dunn (UW-Waukesha)
Dean Kowalski (UW-Waukesha)
Kevin Guilfoy (Carroll University)

Literary Implications of Orwell’s Work

Thursday, October 18 at 6:00 p.m.
Waukesha Public Library
321 Wisconsin Ave., Waukesha

Join us for refreshments and intriguing discussion with local scholars:
Ellyn Lem (UW-Waukesha)
Sheila Carmody (UW-Waukesha)
Paula Friedman (Cardinal Stritch)
Joe Foy (UW-Waukesha)

 

Flash Fiction Contest

Flash Fiction Contest

Who is Watching You?

The world George Orwell created in his classic novel, 1984, offers few places to hide. Create your own fictional masterpiece, 1,000 words or less, based on the theme “Who is Watching You?” and you could be a winner!

The contest is open to middle school and high school students and adults.

All entries are due Monday, October 8.

Get all the contest details and an official Entry Form and get creative!

Downtown Art Crawl and 2084: City of the Future

Downtown Art Crawl and 2084: City of the Future

Art Crawl in downtown Waukesha

Saturday, October 6 from 4:00-10:00 p.m.

Includes a special exhibit opening at 4:00 p.m. at the Almont Gallery, 342 W. Main St.
Don’t miss the special Waukesha Reads Exhibit created by artist Chuck Wickler.

2084: City of the Future

Saturday, October 6 from 1:00-8:00 p.m.

Waukesha Community Art Project, 820 N. Grand Ave.
Join us and build a vehicle or building for a city of 2084. Materials provided. A FREE family friendly event!
Join us for Waukesha Reads Kickoff Weekend

Join us for Waukesha Reads Kickoff Weekend

Friday, September 28, 6:30-9:00 p.m.

Freeman Friday Night Live in Downtown Waukesha

  • Free books and program information at the Five Points

  • 2084: City of the Future at Waukesha Community Art Project , 820 N. Grand Ave. Use your imagination to design a building or vehicle of the future and together we will build a city of 2084. Materials provided. Free!

Saturday, September 29, 8:00-Noon

Waukesha Farmers’ Market, Riverfront Plaza, Waukesha

  • Free books and program information

  • Drop off books for the Children’s Books for Hope project

  • Make a bookmark – One for you and one to share with the children of Hope Center

2012: 1984 by George Orwell

Written in 1948, 1984 was George Orwell’s chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, Orwell’s narrative is timelier than ever. As literary political fiction and as dystopian science-fiction, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a classic novel in content, plot, and style. Many of its terms and concepts, such as Big Brother, doublethink, thoughtcrime, Newspeak, and memory hole, have entered everyday use since its publication in 1949.

Waukesha Reads 2012 Selects George Orwell’s 1984

Waukesha Reads 2012 Selects George Orwell’s 1984

Waukesha Reads is proud to announce 1984 by George Orwell as their book for 2012!

Written in 1948, 1984 was George Orwell’s chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, Orwell’s narrative is timelier than ever.

The novel can be summed up in its most famous quote, “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”

Join us in October as we explore this book and its themes with a broad variety of community-wide events.

2009: A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway’s third novel, A Farewell to Arms (1929), was crafted from his earliest experience with war. As a teenager just out of high school, Hemingway volunteered to fight in the First World War but was rejected because of poor eyesight. Instead, he drove a Red Cross ambulance on the Italian front, where he was wounded in 1918 by a mortar shell. While recovering in a hospital, Hemingway fell in love with Agnes von Kurowsky, a nurse seven years his senior.

2008: THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby may be the most popular classic in modern American fiction. Since its publication in 1925, Fitzgerald’s masterpiece has become a touchstone for generations of readers and writers, many of whom reread it every few years as a ritual of imaginative renewal. The story of Jay Gatsby’s desperate quest to win back his first love reverberates with themes at once characteristically American and universally human, among them the importance of honesty, the temptations of wealth, and the struggle to escape the past.

2007: FAHRENHEIT 451 by Ray Bradbury

When did science fiction first cross over from genre writing to the mainstream of American literature? Almost certainly it happened on October 19, 1953, when a young Californian named Ray Bradbury published a novel with the odd title of Fahrenheit 451. In a gripping story at once disturbing and poetic, Bradbury takes the materials of pulp fiction and transforms them into a visionary parable of a society gone awry.

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