September 25, 2015
Three years after Total Equity Now and partners began building the first-day-of-every-month Literacy Across Harlem Day movement, "Team TEN" is joining forces with #RockThoseReads friends and neighbors across the river to launch Literacy Across the South Bronx Day!
LITERACY ACROSS THE SOUTH BRONX DAY - LAUNCH EVENT - 10/01/15
Books & Breakin' in the South Bronx
Thursday, October 1, 2015
3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Corner of 163rd Street & Simpson Street
#RockThoseReads #SBXreads
This fun, free event also launches Literacy Across the South Bronx Day, a first-day-of-each-month celebration of reading and writing in the "Boogie Down"!
Stay tuned for the related list of books about the South Bronx that teens from Casita Maria will hand out that afternoon to fellow teens and other neighbors.
LITERACY ACROSS HARLEM DAY - 10/01/15
#RockThoseReads Street Team
Thursday, October 1, 2015
3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Corner of 116th Street & Broadway
Click here to view the list of books about Harlem--for children, teens, and adults--that our Street Team volunteers distribute on Literacy Across Harlem Day.
For more information about LAH Day, click here or see the flyer below.
SUMMARY OF 4TH ANNUAL LITERACY ACROSS HARLEM MARCH
Last Saturday, September 19, in the spirit of Walter Dean Myers, Harlemites and friends took the #RockThoseReads movement to the streets in conjunction with Total Equity Now's 4th Annual Literacy Across Harlem March, Book Drive & Community Celebration.
One group traveled El Barrio's streets; the other navigated West and Central Harlem. Both handed out Harlem-centric reading lists and information about Harlem's 10 public libraries, chanted reading-related slogans, visited reading-related landmarks, and ultimately arrived at Marcus Garvey Park for a unified, community-building celebration of reading and writing.
Participants donated over 200 new and like-new "reads" for children and families living in Harlem shelters!
Media
Facebook Photo Album (special thanks to journalist Christopher Etienne and all the others who contribute photos for this album):
http://on.fb.me/1Oz5Kvz
"Literacy March Collects Books for Shelter Residents" (TheUptowner.org, 9/20/15)
Literacy Across Harlem March Volunteers
, Partners, and Participants
Lead Volunteers:
The success of our 4th Annual LAH March--really, the success of any Total Equity Now project--is a testament to the community-mindedness, creativity, and commitment of our all-volunteer team.
The following individuals co-organized and/or co-led this year's march:
Faith Allen, Austin Ashamole, Jaye Jones, Nicole Olavarria, Ta-Tanisha Rice, Joe Rogers, Jr., Courtney Rose, Norval Soleyn, Monica Thompson
Bookstore Partners:
Cafe One (1619 Amsterdam Ave. at 140th St)
Artistic Partner:
Special thanks to David Borgonjon and his community-minded colleagues at Harlem-based
The Laundromat Project
for leading marchers in a bookmark-decorating project in conjunction with LP's annual "Field Day" activities. LP's bookmark templates were printed with black-and-white images of Harlem's reading-related landmarks, setting up LAH marchers to embellish those literary canvasses with markers and inspiring messages. The decorated bookmarks will be placed in some of the hundreds of books donated by marchers that day for children and families living in Harlem shelters!
LAH March Teams:
Because it takes a Harlem,
Total Equity Now
