Program Description
Event Details
Read. Talk. Make.
Open to Teens and Adults
The Book to Art Club combines reading, discussion, and art-making.
Participants will read the selected book, then create projects inspired by the reading during the discussion to further engage with the literature. The process of making is more important than the final product!
Book club book copies may be picked up at Mead Public Library's 1st floor desk one month before the discussion. Art supplies will be provided, but participants may bring their own materials. Follow us on Goodreads, Pinterest!, and Facebook. See what is happening with other Book to Art Clubs around the world on The Book to Art Club Blog. Mead discussion groups are free, funded by the Friends of the Library. The Book to Art Club was created by the Library as Incubator Project.
"The Starless Sea" by Erin Morgenstern
with a special project led by the Imaginarium's Maker-in-Residence: Erica Jane Huntzinger
Theme: Nautical, Books, Self-Discovery
Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a graduate student in Vermont when he discovers a mysterious book hidden in the stacks. As he turns the pages, entranced by tales of lovelorn prisoners, key collectors, and nameless acolytes, he reads something strange: a story from his own childhood. Bewildered by this inexplicable book and desperate to make sense of how his own life came to be recorded, Zachary uncovers a series of clues--a bee, a key, and a sword--that lead him to a masquerade party in New York, to a secret club, and through a doorway to an ancient library, hidden far below the surface of the earth. What Zachary finds in this curious place is more than just a buried home for books and their guardians--it is a place of lost cities and seas, lovers who pass notes under doors and across time, and of stories whispered by the dead. Zachary learns of those who have sacrificed much to protect this realm, relinquishing their sight and their tongues to preserve this archive, and also those who are intent on its destruction. Together with Mirabel, a fierce, pink-haired protector of the place, and Dorian, a handsome, barefoot man with shifting alliances, Zachary travels the twisting tunnels, darkened stairwells, crowded ballrooms, and sweetly-soaked shores of this magical world, discovering his purpose--in both the mysterious book and in his own life.