Join the African American Read-In Chain at Reynolda House Mu

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Join the African American Read-In Chain at Reynolda House Museum of American Art

Friday, January 16, 2009

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Sharyn Turner
336.758.5580
sturner@reynoldahouse.org
or Sarah Mansell
336.758.5524
manselss@reynoldahouse.org

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (January 15, 2009) Reynolda House Museum of American Art will host the African-American Read-In Chain on Monday, February 2 at 11 a.m. The public is invited to come to the museum and read aloud their favorite passages by African American writers or enjoy listening to the selections offered by others. The event is free and open to the public.

The 20th annual African-American Read-In Chain is a national celebration of Black History Month, an affirmation of African American literacy that has become a traditional part of the month's activities. Sponsored by the Black Caucus of the National Council of Teachers of English and endorsed by the International Reading Association, this chain of readers has included more than one million readers of all ethnic groups across the country.

Reading materials should be selected from works authored by contemporary or historical African-Americans, professional or novice writers.

Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of the nation's premier American art museums, with masterpieces by Mary Cassatt, Frederic Church, Jacob Lawrence, Georgia O'Keeffe and Gilbert Stuart among its permanent collection. Affiliated with Wake Forest University, Reynolda House features traveling and original exhibitions, concerts, lectures, classes, film screenings and other events. The museum is located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in the historic 1917 estate of Katharine Smith Reynolds and her husband, Richard Joshua Reynolds, founder of the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. Reynolda House and adjacent Reynolda Gardens and Reynolda Village feature a spectacular public garden, dining, shopping and walking trails. For more information, please visit reynoldahouse.org or call 336.758.5150.

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