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ACTORS breathe life into literature,
give voice to the characters,
substance to the events.

The AUDIENCE
experiences the story
instead of just reading it.

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from page to stage

News and Events

Caleb's Crossing
Sunday, January 22

Living Literature is pleased to be participating in another Reading Across Rhode Island (RARI) book presentation, a program of the Rhode Island Center for the Book.

This year's book selection celebrates RARI's 10th year anniversary of selecting books, choosing Caleb’s Crossing by Pulitzer Prize winning author Geraldine Brooks.

Living Literature will present a series of two person presentations during the RARI series of events running January through April.

Living Literature will present a brief version of Caleb's Crossing in a three person readers theatre style event, Sunday, January 22, as part of the 2012 Kick-Off event. It will be held at Newman Congregational Church, 100 Newman Avenue, Rumford, RI.

Author Geraldine Brooks will be in attendance. If you are interested in attending, please refer to the RI Center for the Book website at www.rihumanities.org/ribook/default.html.

In 1665, a young man from Martha’s Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College. Upon this slender factual scaffold, Brooks has created a luminous tale of love and faith, magic and adventure.

The creation of this program and a limited number of these presentations have been funded this year by a legislative grant from the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. This program is available to you throughout Feb.-April, 2012 for $200. Please book soon, as we anticipate a good many requests. Contact Barry Press here or call 401-437-2297.

Louisa May Alcott's Life Sketches
October-November
Details

Caleb's Crossing

RI Center
for the Book

Read Across Rhode Island
2012 program

We are listed in the Education Roster of the
Rhode Island State Council
of the Arts

The RI League of Women Voters
has provided support through their Education Fund Grants

Providence Athenaeum

Louisa May Alcott's Life Sketches

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak.

Strong convictions precede great actions. -Alcott-

March 2012 Living Literature will be bringing back its successful Louisa May Alcott’s Life Sketches, in a limited run to celebrate Women’s History Month, March 2012. This 40 minute, two person, readers theatre-style presentation shares the early life of Louisa May Alcott, in her own words, based on three of her autobiographical sketches: Hospital Sketches (1862), Reminiscences of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1882), and Recollections of My Childhood (1888).

This program was originally part of an NEH grant written by the Providence Public Library in support of the Louisa May Alcott Library Outreach Program. as part of a series of program celebrating her life throughout October and November, 2011.

At the following locations in March 2012 Details