Celebrate your freedom to READ!

Hope Academy students and teaching artists are performing at a “Banned Books Week” event, co-sponsored by the ACLU, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and 90.5 WESA. This free event will feature Pittsburgh personalities and performers reading (and in Hope Academy’s case, performing songs) from their favorite banned or challenged works.

Featuring:
Charlie Batch, former quarterback- Pittsburgh Steelers/founder- Best of the Batch Foundation
Paul Guggenheimer, host, WESA’s “Essential Pittsburgh”
Dan Kamin, world-renowned mime
Alan Olifson, comedian, host of Moth StorySLAM Pittsburgh
Hope Academy of Music and the Arts, HAT Co Band performing “Ohio” by
Vanessa German, poet, performer, photographer, sculptor and activist

Plus – Banned Advertising! Images and clips from ads that some folks thought you shouldn’t see