Couldn’t make the last Slow Reading book club?
That’s ok. Bring whatever book you want and read with us for an hour at the next meeting.
When: Monday, March 30, at 6 p.m.
Where: Motor City Yacht Club, 10835 E Jefferson Ave., Detroit.
That’s ok. Bring whatever book you want and read with us for an hour at the next meeting.
When: Monday, March 30, at 6 p.m.
Where: Motor City Yacht Club, 10835 E Jefferson Ave., Detroit.
Slow down, you move fast.
Got to make the pages last.
If you’ve never heard of SLOW READING clubs, you’re not alone. The alternative book club movement started in New Zealand and is spreading across the globe. Read about the first slow reading club here. And read the WSJ’s coverage here.
Join us in this amazing kick off event with a celebration of Rosa Park’s BIRTHDAY.
John Telford, an amazing civil rights activist and former Detroit schools superintendent, will give his all to a recreation of King’s I-have-a-Dream speech. We’ll be giving away cool books.
The awesome folks at 20-Books Inc. are partnering with us to make this slowdown bookclub happen. Learn more about their crucial mission here.
We’ll be able to supply little libraries with bushels of multi-cultural children’s books.
Huge thanks to all who bid and shared the fundraising campaign. IT WORKED!
Thanks to a generous donor, the highest bidder will get the best iPhone available< AND know his or her largess will be invested in awesome multicultural children’s books from indy publisher Lee & Low Books. These special books will be used to stock Detroit Little Libraries in diverse city neighborhoods and parks in celebration of Black History Month in February.
No more deleting pictures! At your fingertips will be enough memory to video your life story, become a walking music-pository, and store every photo you have time to take.
WJBK) - FOX 2 is working for you all year long, but we know we’re part of a bigger community — a giving community.
That’s why we go to work every year to help connect you to the people and agencies who need your help. We help you make, a Holiday Connection!
At the heart of that effort is The Giving Guide - a book we put together every year with Gardner-White Furniture.
Making a difference is easy when you have a copy of the Giving Guide! We create this guide to be used as tool to help you get more involved. The book features the needs of more than 100 local charities – what they do, what they need, and how you can help!
You can pick up a Giving Guide at any Gardner-White Furniture Location or get it online, click here.
As part of this effort we produce a special show called “Holiday Connection” hosted by Sherry Margolis, spotlighting some of the charities in the book and featuring stories of amazing people in our community who are giving back in big and small ways. Every person can make a difference!
Watch the complete show on FOX 2 throughout the holiday season or select your stories above by clicking play!
We hope you’ll be inspired to reach out to one of the agencies featured in our show!
FOX 2, and our partners Gardner-White, and 100.3 WNIC invite to you make a holiday connection!
LISTEN TO THE INTERVIEW WITH KOZLOWSKI
Take a book. Leave a book.
This is the simple idea behind the Little Free Library movement…..
Now the Little Free Library movement is taking root in Detroit.
Organizer Kim Kozlowski is the higher education reporter for the Detroit News, and she’s the driving force behind the Detroit Little Free Library.
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by Shawn D. Lewis
Detroit – — The first of 20 new tiny libraries for Detroit was installed Thursday near a park on the city’s west side.
During a ceremonial dig, a small, glass-enclosed wooden box was erected next to the North Rosedale Park Community House. Todd Bol, who founded the Little Free Libraries movement, hauled the libraries in a trailer from his home in Wisconsin.
Among those at Thursday’s ceremony was Marsha Bruhn, a 40-year resident of North Rosedale Park and chairwoman of The Legacy Project, a fundraising effort to renovate the North Rosedale Park Community House and grounds.
“This becomes one more reason to come to the park,” she said.
Besides North Rosedale Park, other Little Free Libraries that Bol is giving the city will be installed at Detroit Loves You Airbnb, Murphy Play Lot in Corktown, Westminster Church in northwest Detroit, the Ruth Ellis Drop in center in Highland Park, Detroit’s Write A House, and residential homes in Palmer Woods, Palmer Park and Boston Edison.
Some will be installed in city parks, including Clark, Weiss, Hawthorne, Bennett, LaSalle Ford, Lafayette Central, Wilson, Edmore-Marbud and Butler.
The little libraries are erected in public places and filled with donated books; passersby are urged to take one or leave one….
Bol pledged to give Detroit 20 of the miniature libraries after Kim Kozlowski of Ferndale launched a fundraising campaign in September to build 313 Little Free Libraries to promote literacy and community engagement. Kozlowski, a Detroit News staff writer, is working to raise $25,000 on the crowdfunding website Indiegogo.com.
“I thought it would be exciting to raise money and put the libraries in various places around Detroit,” said Kozlowski. “We’ve had some pretty bad monikers, like murder capital, and I thought we could flip it and make it the little library capital.”
by Karen Dybis
Detroit, get ready for a reading revolution – the kind that brings neighbors together, puts the city on the map for literacy and shows off our brainy muscles.
As you travel across the city in the weeks to come, you’re going to see these little boxes full of books starting to pop up across Detroit. It is the work of Detroit Little Free Libraries, a campaign to bring this unique project to Detroit in a big way. Organizers want to make Detroit the “Little Free Library” capital of the world with 313 installations across the city.
Founder Todd Bol was in town this week for a bunch of ceremonial digs and installations of the first of 20 Little Free Libraries; the first ones showed up in places such as Boston Edison, Palmer Park and North Rosedale Park in Detroit. Today, he and local organizers will be putting more in the ground at 1:30 today at the Ruth Ellis Drop-In center in Highland Park and another in Corktown.
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Thanks to your generous donations, we’re building 10 new little libraries for Detroit. While some of these are going to the Detroit Parks Department for installation in city playgrounds slated for renovation, we’d like to see many of them in neighborhoods in and around Detroit. If you’d like a library and are committed to being a good steward, we’d like to hear from you.
*Help decide where the first wave of 313 libraries go. Winners will be selected, in part, by how many “likes” each entry gets. Vote for your favorite entry by clicking the “Like” button at the end of entries.
by Mike Dunham
…the Detroit Little Library project attempts to nourish minds by setting up small, free libraries, particularly in inner-city and neighborhood parks. It’s the brainchild of newspaper reporter Kim Kozlowski, who has garnered national attention with her mission to make the Motor City the “little free library capital of the world.”
What’s this have to do with Alaska? I’m glad you asked. Author Cindy Dyson (“And She Was”), a former Alaskan now living in Montana, is putting together a little library for Detroit dedicated to Alaska-themed books. Several Alaska writers have already donated signed copies of their books — Deb Vanasse, Don Rearden, Ned Rozell and Marybeth Holleman among them — but a bunch more will make for a better product. So will money. It costs about $1,000 to put up one of these “ambassador” branches.
Just to make it fun, Dyson has arranged a competition between authors in Alaska and those in her adopted Montana — she’s putting herself on the Alaska side of the contest. At last look, more Montana authors than Alaskans had donated books, but Alaskans were way in the lead with cash contributions. OK, $1,000? We can blow Montana out of the water with a single PFD check.
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