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April 28, 2000
BCC's summer reading series for children focuses on valuesWEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- The Purdue Black Cultural Center Library will teach children from Greater Lafayette about African and African-American values during the BCC Summer Reading Series in June and July."Poetry, Prose & Proverbs: Reflecting on Values" is a reading series targeted to kindergarten through sixth-grade children. The readings will be from 10:30 a.m. to noon on four Wednesdays -- June 14, 21, 28 and July 12 -- at the Black Cultural Center, 1100 Third St., West Lafayette. May 31 is the deadline to register for the series by calling (765) 496-6660. Children will have the opportunity to learn about literature that reaffirms an African/African-American cultural value system. The readers for the programs will consist of Purdue faculty, students and staff, plus members of the Greater Lafayette community. They will share writings and sayings by people of African descent from works available in the Black Cultural Center Library. In addition to listening to writings, the children also will learn how to write poetry during a writing workshop following each reading. The workshop conductors will use a writing manual, "Very Young Poets," that was written by Gwendolyn Brooks, the first African-American to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. On July 12, children will read the poems they have written as workshop participants during a "Poetry Slam." These poems will be compiled and produced into a book to be added to the Black Cultural Center Library collection. CONTACT: Dorothy Washington, BCC librarian, (765) 494-3093.
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