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7th Annual "Feed A Teen" Thanksgiving Dinner CNN Hero Diane Latiker: Kids Off the Block     KOB is hosting its 7th Annual "Feed A Teen Dinner", Saturday, November 22, 2014 (1:00-5:00pm) to promote higher education and non-violence among our youth... During this historical event the attending youth will enjoy a day of family, a holiday meal, entertainment, music, and special prizes.  We need your help! Our goal is to feed 1,000 teens for Thanksgiving, to give children/youth a sense of family and community and something to be thankful for. This event was started in response to the many children that came to my house on Thanksgiving Day to ask if they could share our traditional family setting and dinner because they had no one to share it with at home. So far, over 3,000 children, teens and young adults have attended this event! Funds raised by this event will enable Kids Off The Block to feed youth and their families city wide, continue to promote non-violence and advocate for higher education among our youth in Chicago IL. All donations are tax deductible (a tax exempt letter will be sent upon request). KOB and the youth in Chicago, IL thank you for your generous support and contribution. For more information, please contact Diane Latiker, Founder at 312-647-0089 or email: dianekob@hotmail.com This event is FREE and open to all! Thank you, Diane Latiker - Founder/President   www.kidsofftheblock.us

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Poetry Off the Shelf MAKE Exchange with Mexican Poets featuring Daniel Borzutzky, Luis Felipe Fabre & Valerie Mejer Caso Wednesday, October 15 7:00 PM Poetry Foundation 61 West Superior Street Free Admission As part of its four-day festival called Lit & Luz, taking place first in Chicago this October and later in Mexico City, MAKE Literary Productions hosts an evening with poet and translator Daniel Borzutzky, poet and critic Luis Felipe Fabre, and painter and poet Valerie Mejer Caso.     Poetry Foundation and Chicago Public Library Poetry Day: Carolyn Forché & Jamaal May Thursday, October 16, 6:00 PM Doors Open at 5:00 PM Cindy Pritzker Auditorium Harold Washington Library Center 400 South State Street Free Admission Join poets from two generations for the 60th annual Poetry Day. Carolyn Forché’s famed international anthology, Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness, was praised by Nelson Mandela as “itself a blow against tyranny, against prejudice, against injustice.” A 2014 Cave Canem resident, Jamaal May was recently awarded Poetry magazine’s J. Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood Prize for his poems “Per Fumum” and “There Are Birds Here,” published in Poetry’s February 2014 issue.     Open House Chicago C’est la Ville!: Urban Voices from Paris and Chicago Saturday, October 18 10:00AM–6:00PM Sunday, October 19 10:00AM–5:00PM Poetry Foundation 61 West Superior Street Free Admission An audio installation created by Silvain Gire and Samuel Hirsch from ARTE Radio will match/rub/clash city sounds and voices from Paris and Chicago. Against a backdrop of trains, crowds and parks, six poets from the two cities will emerge. The Poetry Foundation and the Consulat Général de France will co-host a reception on Saturday, October 18th from 4:00PM to 6:00PM featuring informal remarks by architect John Ronan, along with writer and co-founder of ARTE Radio Silvain Gire. The installation and reception are a part of Open House Chicago, co-sponsored by the Chicago Architecture Foundation. FALL CHICAGO EVENTS SCHEDULE

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LITERACY LANDSCAPE       It’s Program Time!     After a summer spent nerding out with the Publishing Academyauthors (by the way, did you read their recommendations in last month’s newsletter?), the program team is ready to get back to work in schools and field trips.   This fall, our inspiring Buddies program will return to schools across Chicago, helping struggling students discover the joy of reading. We’ll host transformative Adventures in Creative Writing field trips in our space four days per week andReadThenWrite will morph middle and high school students in schools from West Town to Englewood into polished, published authors.   It’s never been a better time to join our team as an intern, avolunteer, a supporter, a book donor, a partner, or a shopper. We’ll see you at Open Books!   Wordshops are Coming!   For the first time, the Publishing Academy magic is available year-round. Aspiring young novelists: join us for a series of special Wordshops this year that delve deeply into specific parts of the writing process to expand your imaginations and realize your literary dreams.       Our first wordshop will be  Scene-Building:  If You Ruled the World Tuesday, November 11th — 9 am - 3 pm   In Scene-Building, students from grades 7-12 will learn to create awe-inspiring settings and worlds for their stories. Through a series of engaging activities, students will brainstorm aspects of their imaginary worlds, (including geography, climate, political structure, origin stories, and more) and learn how to draw readers into their narratives through the power of place. For more information or to register, please contact Jessica Jones Lewis at jlewis@open-books.org   Save the Date for Make the Case!     Join Open Books and the Associate Board for the 4th annual Make the Case for Kids event on Friday, November 14th at Logan Square Auditorium from 7 pm - 10 pm.   Creative and crafty teams will compete for big prizes as they decorate bookcases, which will then be stocked and donated in all their colorful glory to deserving classrooms around the city! Think you have what it takes to decorate the best-looking bookcase in Chicago? Team registration is $500 for a team of five decorators, and includes food, drink, and access to an evening of creative fun and entertainment.   For those less crafty, spectator tickets will go on sale later this month, at a special early bird price of $35. Spectator tickets include food, drink, one raffle ticket, and one People’s Choice voting ballot. (Additional raffle tickets and voting ballots may be purchased online or at the event.)   For more information or to register a team, contact Cary Mele at cmele@open-books.org     VOLUNTEER VANGUARD   Fall Programming!     In the coming weeks, our volunteers will work with the Little Buddies in our Buddies program on reading skills, and with middle and high school students in ReadThenWrite on reading, writing and publishing. Our programs all over Chicago start as early as next week—and we need your help!   The literacy work we do would not be possible without all of the hard work of our passionate and talented programming volunteers. When volunteers commit to twice-weekly sessions of Buddies or ReadThenWrite, they create an incomparable learning and mentorship experience for their students, helping them find their unique voices and gain more confidence in their words. We are seeking Buddies all over the city and ReadThenWrite coaches in Gage Park, West Town and Englewood. Specific days and times can be found on our website. We are especially seeking coaches to join us at Mitchell Elementary in West Town. While the training has passed, we can work to onboard you as soon as you can make it.    Want to learn more about our fall programs?  Sign up for an orientation now! Already been oriented? Contact Nell to receive details about scheduling and specific program signups: volunteer@open-books.org / 312.475.1355 x 119.   Upcoming Orientations 9/12 – 1 pm 9/17 – 6 pm      WHAT'S IN STORE     Open Books Presents: An Evening with Rachel Bertsche Hosted by Britt Julious, Thursday October 9th at 6 p.m.     After her bestselling first book, MWF Seeking BFF, Rachel Bertsche set her sights on the glamorous lives of movie stars. In Jennifer, Gwenyth and Me, Bertsche embarks on a quest to emulate her Hollywood role models—while sticking to a budget—to see if they really hold the keys to happiness. In discussion with local writer Britt Julious, Rachel will explain the preparations behind the project, her own relationship to Hollywood, and her biggest takeaways from writing Jennifer, Gwenyth and Me.   Open Book Club Reads The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay          Join us in October as we read Pulitzer Prize-winning The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon!Kavalier and Clay is a sweeping epic about World War Two, comics, escapism, family, fatherhood, and the nature and reality of the American Dream. It is one of our all-time favorites at Open Books, and we are thrilled to have it as a Book Club selection.   We’ll discuss Kavalier and Clay at 6 pm on Tuesday, October 14th. There is no RSVP or monthly commitment required to attend Open Book Club. See you there!   Keep up to date with our selections by joining us on our Goodreads or Meetup pages!   P.S. We'll see you on September 9th for Where the Moon Isn't!   Book Banter       "Let’s talk about fan fiction," says Lizzy, Assistant Bookstore Manager at our River North store.   "I don't often bring it up; certainly not professionally and only occasionally with friends, but I am a long-time reader (and once-upon-a-time writer) of fan fiction. I discovered Harry Potter fan fiction on Yahoo Groups back in the day, and never looked back.   The reason that I haven't often talked about it is because it feels embarrassing and hard to understand if you aren't already in it. I’ve been questioning myself lately, though, and I’ve come to realize that not only is there no reason to be embarrassed as a reader of fan fiction, but there’s a lot of reasons to be proud to be a part of the community."   Read on for Lizzy's genealogy of fan fiction and why people who ignore it are missing out.        BOOKS       A Change in Book Worm Angels   In the next few days, we will be temporarily disabling the Book Worm Angels application and replacing it with a waiting list. We've had an unprecedented number of requests in the last few weeks and we're going to take some time to catch up on our waiting list and implement changes that will make the program better than ever! We hope to have the full application back up by the end of November.   We are also assembling a Dream Team of volunteers as part of our plan to streamline BWA operations, and will share more information about that next month. For now, if there are any volunteers who are interested in working with kids' books, they are welcome at the warehouse!     COMING UP   Storytime Every Thursday 10 am   Make It Stick with PeterBrown September 4 6 pm    Children's Concert and Signing with Ellis Paul September 6 2 pm   Open Book Club Where the Moon Isn't September 9 6 pm   Volunteer Orientation September 12 12 pm September 17 6 pm   Winnie the Pooh Day! September 13 10 am - 1 pm   An Evening with Rachel Bertsche October 9 6 pm   Open Book Club The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay October 14 6 pm     BRING YOUR COMPANY TO OPEN BOOKS     Does your office or corporation host service days for your team? Would you like to spend a day of service with us at an Open Books field trip?   Email Nell Klugman (nklugman@open-books.org) for more information.     SEPTEMBER VOL-STAR     September Vol-Star is Open Books store fixture Margie Zolla!   Margie is a hardworking, passionate volunteer with strong literary opinions that she offers freely to customers, which have resulted in the kinds of valuable conversations that make a bookstore not only a pleasure to be in, but also a place where a diverse readership can find recommendations and discuss books they love. She can also hold her own in debates about genre literature with our inimitable store manager, Kevin—not something for the faint of heart.   Read our Vol-Star interview with Margie to learn more about her multi-lingual aspirations and something she has in common withAugust’s Vol-Star (a love ofPride & Prejudice—they didn't coordinate, we swear!).   GROUP BOOK DRIVES       We couldn't distribute books in our programs or sell them to fulfill our mission without the support of generous individuals and groups who donate their unwanted books. Thank you to everyone, including the following companies, organizations, schools, and people that ran book drives for Open Books this past month: Drew Andersen, Transwestern, Albert Whitman Publishing, The Selfhelp Home, CDW, Car Max, The Clare, and 161 East Chicago Ave!       Would you like to organize a book drive? It's simple! Check out our comprehensive Book Drive Book!     LINKELLANEOUS   A five-year-old explains why books are the best!   The 10 worst jobs in literature.   30 Authors on the movie adaptations of their books.   The Telegraph's list of 100 novels everyone should read.   Guess what these authors did before they were famous!   Ahhhhh! Book Scorpions!     OPEN BOOKS BUZZ ‏@EJNeukirch: Found a bookmark w/note from my 1995 elementary #teacher in donation I'm taking to @OpenBooks today. #karma#reading   ‏@RachelYeomans: Saw a book in the window...went in and found a comic I've been wanting. Bought both. (at @OpenBooks in Chicago, IL)   @gorms29: about to go to a puppy parade @OpenBooksanti-cruelty society. Bring on the Cheerios! ;)   ‏@ChiWritersConf  we have the best partners! shout out to @OpenBooks!   @Wood_Foundation  Thank you to @OpenBooksfor providing hundreds of new books for the LCA library! 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