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Create Your Own Mini-Comic. FOR ADULTS!
Wednesday, October 6 | 6:30 - 8:00pm | McKune Room
 Attention Grown-ups! Explore the convergence of crafting and visual storytelling in mini-comics by making one of your own! Join Artist-in-Residence Jerzy Drozd in an interactive discussion on how mini-comics can tell any kind of story using simple stick figures, and how an author can use crafting techniques like block printing, screen printing, and unique binding to make your comic both a book and an art piece. In the hands-on portion of the workshop you will be invited to draw your own 8-page mini-comic and try out some screen printing techniques to print your cover. Materials will be provided.In partnership with Chelsea Center for the Arts.
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Get Ready for Teen Read Week
Teen Read Week™ 2010, Oct. 17 - 23
 Chelsea District Library will celebrate Teen Read Week™ 2010, Oct. 17-23, with special events and programs aimed at encouraging area teens to read for the fun of it. Thousands of libraries, schools and bookstore across the country will hold similar events centered on this year's theme, Books with Beat @ Your LibraryŽ, which encourages teens to read a variety of materials, including poetry, audiobooks, books about music, and more.
Teen Read Week(TM) is the national adolescent literacy initiative of the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), the fastest-growing division of the American Library Association.
Visit the Chelsea District Library with your teen to attend a program or to check out books. - Set aside time each night for the family to read.
- Give books or magazine subscriptions to your teen as a gift or reward.
- Share your favorite book with your teen.
- Go online with your teen to learn about new books or authors. A good place to start is YALSA's Booklists and Book Awards page, www.ala.org/yalsa/booklists.
- Join a book discussion group. The library is hosting a SRSLY Book discussion of Crank, by Ellen Hopkins, on November 30. Sign up and receive a free copy!
Don't miss a SRSLY sanctioned Lock-In at the library for Teen Read Week(TM). Teens must register before October 22nd to be eligible for the Rockin' Lock-in, where teens can eat pizza, play video games and dance to music from a DJ "smuggled" all the way from Canada. Register now for the Rockin' Lock-in!
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Wrestlemania Reading Challenge!
Another opportunity to celebrateTeen Read Week!
Join the Wrestlemania Reading Challenge, which kicks off during Teen Read Week(TM). The library will distribute WrestleMania Reading Challenge Pledge Forms starting October 16. Tweens and teens (grades 5 - 12) will complete pledge forms by writing in the titles of five books or graphic novels that they pledge to read over a five-month period (between Teen Read Week and WrestleMania). For every book read, the participant will receive a Slam Attax trading card and other special prizes.
Tweens and teens who want to try to win a trip to WrestleMania 27 in Atlanta, GA, may complete the following project:
- Grades 7-8 and Grades 9-12: Form a tag team of your favorite character from literature and your favorite WWE Superstar, and describe and/or illustrate on an 8.5x11-inch piece of paper the strategy you would use to defeat the current WWE Tag Team Champions (as of October 10, 2010). Teens may use art, drawing, collage, poetry and/or writing alone or in any combination in creating your project. All projects must be the original work of the individual teen. Only one entry per person.
- Grades 5-6: Design a bookmark illustrating a slogan created by you that promotes reading. All projects must be the original work of the individual tween. Only one entry per person.
Winners from each group have the chance to win entry to WrestleMania 27 on April 3, 2011!
For more information, call Edith Burney at (734) 475-8732 x 213
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About Us
The Chelsea District Library is nonprofit
organization whose mission is to provide equal access to quality resources that
serve the lifelong cultural, educational and informational needs and interests
of all people. The Library currently
serves 14,000 residents in the Chelsea district - City of Chelsea plus Dexter,
Lima, Lyndon and Sylvan townships and more than 20,000 individuals visit the
Library each month. The Library's
state-of-the-art facility is an access point for information including: books,
periodicals, DVDs, CDs, audiobooks, downloadable e-books, subscription
databases as well as access to the Internet.
In addition to providing dynamic services to complement and support
local schools and other important community needs, the Chelsea District Library
strives to present timely, interesting and high-quality programs and events to
engage and enrich the Chelsea community.
Sincerely,
Anna Cangialosi, Marketing Librarian
Chelsea District Library
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