Freedom to read: A Banned Book Week event featuring chapter 510 youth, Maggie Tokuda-Hall, Angela Dalton & LaurA Gao
Sat., Sept. 28 | 1pm-4pm
@ the Dept. of Make / Believe
546 9th St, OAK
As part of this year’s Banned Books Week, we are partnering with Authors Against Book Bans to host a reading and postcard writing event! There will be readings from Chapter 510 youth authors, as well as critically acclaimed authors Maggie Tokuda-Hall, Angela Dalton, and Laura Gao.
We hope you will join us on Saturday, September 28.
EVENT SCHEDULE
1pm–2pm letterpress printing and activities in the Dept. of Make / Believe
2pm–3pm Reading from Chapter 510 youth authors, Maggie Tokuda-Hall, Angela Dalton, and Laura Gao.
3pm–4pm postcard writing to librarians around the country on the front lines who are fighting against banned books.
ABOUT AUTHORS AGAINST BOOK BANS
Authors Against Book Bans are a collective of writers, illustrators, editors, and creators, who stand united against the deeply unconstitutional movement to limit the freedom to read. They are committed to band together against the oppression of literature and to fight as one to ensure this freedom. Click on the button below to become a member!
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Maggie Tokuda-Hall is the author Also an Octopus, illustrated by Benji Davies, The Mermaid, The Witch and The Sea, Squad, illustrated by Lisa Sterle, and Love in the Library illustrated by Yas Imamura with more books forthcoming. She lives in Oakland, California with her husband, son, and objectively perfect dog. She has a BA in Studio Art from Scripps College, and an MFA in Writing from University of San Francisco. You can follow her on Twitter, @emteehall or on Instagram @maggietokudahall
Angela Dalton is a children’s book author based in Oakland, California, and has a background in producing online kids’ games. She began writing at a young age and saw it as a way to create her own world. Her self-published picture book, If You Look Up to the Sky, was inspired by her grandmother and an early fascination with outer space and astronomy. Both traditionally and independently published, her work centers black children as main characters in spaces and represented them in ways she wishes she had seen growing up.
Laura Gao is a queer author, illustrator, bread vacuum, and everything in between. Gao immigrated from China to Texas, where their career blossomed from doodling on Pokémon cards to being featured on NPR, the Library of Congress, the MoCA, and most notably, their parents’ fridge. Their works include the viral webcomic, “The Wuhan I Know”, and the bestselling graphic memoir, Messy Roots, which was created in collaboration with Weiwei Xu.