Albion's Big Read has events scheduled throughout the entire month of October. Whether you miss an event or just want to get fired up, check out our photo galleries below. Galleries are separated by event and are categorized by date, starting with the most recent. The earlier events, like the Big Read Summer Leadership Program, are toward the bottom of the page. Click a photo to make it larger and use the arrows on your keyboard to scroll through them.
ALBION’S 2022 BIG READ KEYNOTE ADDRESS AND CELEBRATION!
OCTOBER 25, 2022
Lamar Giles, award-winning novelist, joined us for a great time at Albion’s eighth Big Read with a big CELEBRATION! The leaders enjoyed talking with Lamar and listening to his address where he shared the importance of reading and being open to the wonderful world of storytelling. We enjoyed asking him our questions about Fake I.D. and we enjoyed his responses!
YOUTH-LEAD BOOK DISCUSSION #4
OCTOBER 23, 2022
Big Read Leaders Elis'Ze, Ken'Jayna, Dacarius, Sophia, Zy’Airh, LayLay, Lindsey, and Tim lead our fourth discussion about FAKE I.D. Thank you to the Albion Branch NAACP for hosting this discussion.
ALBION’S LITTLE BIG READ
Albion’s Big Read introduces a new program this year called the Little Big Read. Copies of Cleo Edison Oliver: Playground Millionaire by Sundee Fraizer and Tallullah the Tooth Fairy CEO by Tamara Pizzoli were distributed to the children at Harrington Elementary. Sundee Fraizer came to visit the Harrington Students on October 20, 2022.
YOUTH-LEAD BOOK DISCUSSION #3
OCTOBER 18, 2022
Big Read Leaders Elis'Ze, Ken'Jayna, Dacarius, Sophia, and Tim lead our third discussion about FAKE I.D. Thank you to the Albion Branch NAACP for hosting this discussion.
YOUTH-LEAD BOOK DISCUSSION #2
OCTOBER 15, 2022
Big Read Leaders Ashtyn, Stephanie, Tim and Zy’Airh lead the second of our four discussions about FAKE I.D focusing primarily on the topics of lying and consequences. A big thank you to our amazing hosts, the Albion Sister City Committee and Operation X.
23rd annual marilyn crandall schleg lecture by Dr. David Pilgrim: Using Objects of Intolerance to Teach Tolerance and Promote Social Justice: Lessons from the Jim Crow Museum
Albion’s Big Read co-sponsored this event with the Albion College Archives and Special Collections
YOUTH-LEAD BOOK DISCUSSION #1
OCTOBER 9, 2022
Big Read Leaders Lindsey, Nasir, Ana, Aniya, De’Andre and Olivia lead the first of our four discussions about FAKE I.D focusing primarily on the topics of trust and trouble within friendships. A big thank you to our amazing hosts, the Association for American University Women.
THE KICK-OFF PARADE AND CELEBRATION
October 1, 2022
Thank you to everyone who came out to the historic Holland Park/West Ward to celebrate the beginning of Albion's EIGHTH Big Read! The celebration started with a parade and continued all afternoon with circus performers, live music, student and local organizations, and local food vendors. It was a beautiful day of celebrating with friends, families, and neighbors.
ALBION'S BIG READ YOUTH LEADERSHIP SATURDAY MEETINGS
SEPTEMBER, 2022
Albion's Big Read Youth Leaders have come together for meetings this September where we have played games and fine tuned our discussion skills. These meetings ended with a fully fledged Big Read discussion on loss, completely designed and facilitated by the Big Read Youth Leaders.
BIG READ SUMMER LEADERSHIP WORKSHOP
AUGUST 8-12, 2022
During the week-long August workshop, we worked and played. We played games, ate donuts off of strings, and built "initiating exercises" that call out shared experiences in a group. We read, discussed, got confused, asked questions, stepped out of our comfort zone, and became friends. It is true that we gained tools that would help Leaders facilitate book discussions in October, but we also built a community that many of our Leaders would call their "Big Read Family." The photos below document the hard work and real joy of community building that the Big Read aims to create.
BIG READ SUMMER LEADERSHIP PROGRAM
JUNE-JULY 2022
Albion's Big Read begins long before October. During the summer, we gathered our student Leaders and college volunteers once a week for six weeks to discuss Lamar Giles’s Fake I.D. Leaders played games as a way of getting to know one another and participated in exercises that increased their understanding of the novel
