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17th Annual Literary Award Weekend
October 14, 2020 @ 10:00 am - 10:00 pm
| Join the Nashville Public Library Foundation (NPLF) for a series of virtual events to celebrate the 17th Annual Literary Award Weekend, which will be chaired by Wanda Lyle and Gail Williams and serve as the beginning of a yearlong community engagement celebration of Literacy as the Great Equalizer highlighting NPLF’s commitment to advancing diversity, equity and inclusion through the support and promotion of NPL’s life-changing literacy programs. Nashville is first invited to attend the free Virtual Public Lecture the morning of Saturday, Nov. 14, featuring a virtual live stream montage of stories about the Library’s impact on diverse families across Nashville, each individually introduced by select local authors, including Ruta Sepetys, Higgins Bond and Jamie Sumner, as well as Nashville Reads author Yuyi Morales. This virtual event will also serve as the platform to announce the yearlong activities that will incorporate engagement with two-time Pulitzer Prize winning author Colson Whitehead, who will be honored at the 2021 Literary Award Weekend. In the evening, the annual Literary Award Gala, presented by UBS, will be celebrated as a Stay-at-Home-Gala through hosted in-home parties around town. These smaller gatherings will allow patrons to safely celebrate the successes of NPLF and NPL with a few friends or from the comfort of their own couch and will feature a one-hour, fully produced program filled with inspirational library stories, special appearances from past Literary Awards honorees, surprise guests and more. To learn more about or to participate in the Virtual Public Lecture or Stay-at-Home-Gala, visit www.nplf.org/gala.
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