LAKE COUNTY — The Lower Lake Schoolhouse Museum will feature its final film screening showing the Chinese language movie (with subtitles), Raise the Red Lantern on Thursday at 6 p.m. Admission is free. Lower Lake and Carl? High School students may receive extra credit for attendance.
On Saturday, author Alethea Eason will be facilitating a free writing workshop at the Middletown Library, beginning at 10 a.m. Participants will emerge from the session with a fiction piece that explores a ghost from the past, opening the door to a tale that is waiting to be told. For information, contact Eason, author of Heron”s Path and Hungry at aletheaeason@gmail.com or phone her at 355-0553.
A Big Read partnership with Mt. High Coffee and Books will host a young people”s talent show at the coffee shop”s Hidden Valley shopping center location at 7 p.m. People may dress in costume.
On Sunday, the Friends of Mendocino College will host author and past Lake County Poet Laureate Carolyn Wing Greenlee at 3 p.m. in the campus Round Room on the Lake Campus who will discuss the power of books to change lives in her presentation, Lalu, Joy Luck, and Growing up Chinese in America.
The Big Read is designed to restore reading to the center of American culture.
Lake County is one of 77 communities across the country to receive a 2013/14 Big Read grant award. For more information, visit the NEABigRead.org website, or contact Program Director for the Lake County Big Read, Robin Fogel-Shrive, at rshrive@yahoo.com.
