Do you enjoy creative writing? Have you ever read a book and thought “Geez, I could write a better book than that”? Are you up for a challenge? If your answer to any of these questions is YES, you should think about participating in NaNoWriMo this November! NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month. Every November hundreds of thousands of writers challenge themselves to write a 50,000 word novel, beginning at midnight on November 1st, ending at midnight on the 30th. Although this sounds like a daunting task, it breaks down to writing roughly 1,667 words per day. Okay, that still sounds daunting—but it’s totally doable. And the payoff? If you hit that 50,000 word mark, you have written a freakin’ book! Don’t think you have enough time to bang out 1,667 words a day? We can help with that! Ms. Phillips is hosting informal lunchtime write-ins for the whole month. Come to the Terracotta Warrior Room in the library during lunch, November 1st through 30th, and write while you eat! For more information, check out nanowrimo.org, or talk to Ms. Phillips in the library.
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The Library is hosting a book club on Thursdays to discuss The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas. The book club is sponsored by Ms.Archey and Ms.Laux and endorsed by the Big Idea Club. Copies of the book are free for students in the Library and book club meetings will include casual discussions and snacks. The book club is a result of a Cville One Book project to distribute copies of the book in the Charlottesville area.
Rosie Herrmann Diana Hale, a mail artist who had an exhibit recently in the Crozet Library, visited the Western Albemarle library to discuss her work. Mail art is a type of art where artists change or add to small items sent to them in the mail and send them to others. For her show at the Crozet Library, Hale sent pieces of vintage homework to mail artists around the world. (See her call for participants here. )The mediums used to create the resulting show were varied and often innovative. The artists used string, home-made stamps, paint, pens, and in one case a tool used to burn small holes in the paper. This was very interesting to me because I had not heard about mail art before and because it was very interesting to see all of the different mediums used to create the art. Rosie Herrmann While I am neither talented nor knowledgeable in the visual arts, I am fascinated by the idea of MAIL art, especially because it is proven to actually work well. I love drawing parallels with music, and I think this is one of those rare areas where music was ahead of art: musicians, in recording covers of other musicians' songs, have for a long time had a way of putting their own personal touch on an artist's piece. But this kind of idea of contributing art, especially on something already made (like the science experiment pages), seems to be a relatively new and exciting equivalent for the visual arts (thanks, I suppose, to the internet and globalization).
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