Our featured nonfiction book this week is Erin Elisabeth Conley's Crap: how to deal with annoying teachers, bosses, backstabbers, and other stuff that stinks. Leo W, who chose the tongue-in-cheek high school survival guide, offers up some of his own high school dirt and invites you to share your own, as well as your thoughts […]
Brookbanks branch has a cinematic theme for their Word Out! special events this summer! July 18, 2009, 1:00pm – 3:00pm - Film-making for teensThe teen stays in the picture. This workshop will reveal all! Find out about script development, pre-production, acting and filming. Limited spaces, registration necessary in person or by calling (416) 395-5480 July 21, 2009, 6:00pm […]
Most of the information is already up, but here's the practical details of how the prize draws for Word Out! will work, now that we've "officially" started (although with over 300 comments received to date, it feels like we're already going!):
As part of their participation in Word Out! this year, Toronto Reference Library will give teen-friendly Tuesday tours of some of their special collections. All tours start at 2:00 PM and meet at the first floor Information Desk. Tours last approximately one hour. Tour Schedule ‘Zines – Tuesday, July 7 Performing Arts and Languages – […]
(Somewhat) real time updates from the Battle! 7:10 PM: Christian Potenza’s closing point for the supremacy of Jerk, California: “It’s orange!”
We're starting off our first week with a bang, as the creators of The Apocalipstix (our Graphic Novel of the Week for July 6th, the first official week of Word Out!) give us some exclusive details about the creative process behind a graphic novel and offer to answer your questions…
The Battle of the Books that officially kicks off Word Out! 2009 is tonight. Hope to see you all there! Free to all, no advance registration required. Featuring:
I am sorry to say I didn't read anything that I think teens would be interested in last week (unless you are interested in web content management systems, human-computer interaction or marketing on the web–last week was a lot of work-related reading for me)…
Final week's preview before the July 6 start! See the complete booklist here or check out the other book preview posts…
Summer vacation is now upon us. So many things to do and so little time to do it. You have 9 weeks of time to condense and much life and fun and experience into as possible. What are you going to do?