Please join the Waterbury Library at the Vermont Youth Orchestra's Winter Concert this coming Sunday, January 20th at 3 pm at the Flynn Theater in Burlington. The VYO's "Depictions of a Dream" offers a musical tribute to Martin Luther King's life and legacy. Guest artist Counterpoint vocal ensemble presents a suite of songs associated with the Civil Rights movement. This concert serves as the official launch of the Vermont Humanities Council's 2019 Vermont Reads program which is a one-book-one-state reading program.
Images and text from this year's inspired selection March: Book One by John Lewis, with Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell will be woven throughout the performance. The Waterbury Library has copies of the book for check out.
The graphic novel March: Book One, is the first of a trilogy written by civil rights icon John Lewis, in collaboration with co-writer Andrew Aydin and award-winning graphic artist Nate Powell.
Lewis was chairman of the Students Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and was considered one of the "Big Six" leaders of the civil rights movement. He has served in the US Congress since 1987 and was awarded the Medal of Freedom by President Obama in 2011.
Book One tells of Lewis's childhood in rural Alabama, his desire as a young man to be a preacher, his life-changing interactions with Martin Luther King, Jr., and the nonviolent sit-ins he joined at lunch counters in Nashville as a means of undermining segregation. All three volumes illustrate the story of Lewis's commitment to nonviolent protest in the pursuit of social justice.
The Waterbury Library is planning numerous events from January through the spring, with the theme of Civil Rights, discourse, resistance, and graphic novels, the first being this field trip to the concert at the Flynn Theater. Though tickets for the concert are purchased through the Flynn, the Waterbury Library is offering a way to make this a community event by carpooling. Participants will meet in the back parking lot of the library by 1:45 on Sunday, January 20th.
Tickets are $17.00 for adults and $12.00 for students and can be purchased by going to the Flynn Center regional box office – in person, at 153 Main Street, Burlington, by calling 802-86-FLYNN, or by going to: www.flynntix.org.
Please register for the event through the library by calling 244-7036 or emailing judi@waterburypubliclibrary.com
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