April 23: Ann Harleman (English Dept) will read from her new novel, THE YEAR SHE DISAPPEARED, at the North Kingstown Library, 7:00pm. The book--"the harrowing adventures of a woman who abducts her endangered granddaughter and goes into hiding"--is set in Rhode Island.
April 26: Miniature Books: 4000 Years of Tiny Treasures, a lecture on the history and design of miniature books by author Anne Bromer, Providence Public Library, Barnard Room, 2:00pm. Parallel "Tiny State Tiny Books" exhibits April 17-May 31, Providence Public Library Special Collections; April 22-30, Graphic Design Gallery cases, 1st floor, Design Center
April 29: Mairéad Byrne (English Dept.) and Mark Milloff (Foundation Studies )present RISD CousCous at Tazza, 240 Westminster Street (blues and poetry 9pm-midnight)
Through May:
The Office of Multicultural Affairs has placed a Better World Books donation boxes inside the Benefit Street entrance to College Building, at the Met, and on the first floor of 15 Westminster. Better World sponsors book drives on college campuses to fund and support literacy initiatives around the world. The books collected at RISD will be used for an African literacy initiative.The books will be collected on May 23rd so please contribute your recently published textbooks to this worthy cause! For more information call Deborah Kanston at 277-4957.
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