The event is being held in conjuction with The Big Read, an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts designed to restore reading to the center of American culture. It gives citizens of a single community the opportunity to choose, read and discuss one book within their communities. Each community event lasts about one month.

This year, GCSU is participating in The Big Read with the book A Lesson Before Dying, and A.A.C.’s performance is based on this book.

According to its website, a 2004 report by the National Endowment for the Arts, found that not only is literary reading in America declining rapidly among all groups, but that the rate of decline has accelerated, especially among the young. As a result, The Big Read “aims to address this crisis squarely and effectively.”

For more information about A.A.C’s poetry performance, contact Paul Grigsby at pagrigsby@gmail.com.

The purpose of A.A.C. is to present the plight of the oppressed, engage inequities that divide us, combat social apathy and to inform and educate all who will listen of the realities that shape our lives. A.A.C. establishes alliances with other artists and throught the mediums of poetry, visual arts, music, drama and self-expression.

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