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Highlights from
Eighth Annual Open Book Lightbearer
Benefit Gala
Balloon Launch Highlights Need for HIV/AIDS Education
Family Math & Literary Night at
Willliams Multiplex
"Everyone Has Something Positive to Contribute," Author M. LaVora Perry
tells Open Book Youth
Buddhists and Christians put aside their differences and sign a song together at the end of Henderson Elementary School’s First Place performance during the Open Book Program Author Event with M. LaVora Perry on December 12, 2009 at University of Chicago Charter—Donoghue, 707 E. 37th Street. More than 200 African American inner city students, 9-14, and their teachers and students attended the event sponsored by the Institute for Positive Living’s Open Book Program and emceed by Radio and TV Personality Bioncé Foxx.
Open Book Program participants are reading two books by award-winning author Hope Anita Smith: Keeping the Night Watch and Mother Poems. They are working hart to create mini-plays based on the books which will be performed at the Author Event on March 20, 2010.