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2008
Program
All Day
Movies and Games from the 1930s
For children--movies from the 30s
in the Youth Department’s Story Castle (2nd Floor)
All Day
BPL’s “StoryCorps”
Express your personal feelings about To Kill
a Mockingbird and related
subjects on camera for BPL’s version of StoryCorps.
9:30
Coffee, Juice and Pastries in the Atrium
10:00
Introduction with Dr. Tondra Loder-Jackson
Dr. Tondra Loder-Jackson is Assistant
Professor of Educational Foundations in the UAB School of Education. She has
special interest in the lives and work of urban educators who came of age
prior to, during, and after the Civil Rights and Women’s Movements. Dr.
Loder-Jackson will present an introduction and personal reflection about To
Kill a Mockingbird and moderate today’s program.
10:15
Dr. Wayne Flynt and Dr. Chris Metress
Dr. Wayne Flynt is Alabama’s
premier historian, Professor Emeritus at
Auburn
University,
and the author of eleven books including the Pulitzer Prize-nominated Poor
But Proud: Alabama's Poor
Whites and Alabama in the
Twentieth Century. Dr. Flynt’s topic, Teaching Tolerance, explores how and
why To Kill a Mockingbird has become so popular as a tool for teaching
values like tolerance and justice.
Dr. Chris Metress is Professor of
English at Samford
University.
He is the editor of The Critical Response to
Dashiell Hammett, The Lynching of Emmett Till: A Documentary Narrative, and
Emmett Till in Literary Memory and Imagination. Dr. Metress will discuss
themes from his essay The Rise and Fall of Atticus Finch, which explores how
modern readers perceive To Kill a Mockingbird’s main character Atticus Finch
in hindsight.
11:15
The Four Eagles Gospel Singers
The Four Eagles Gospel style typifies the
“Birmingham Sound,” which emerged from
Jefferson
County's
mining camps and mill towns and became immensely popular across the country.
The "Birmingham Sound" is characterized by close harmony, a stressing of
vocal attack and release, exchanging lead vocals from singer to singers, and
a "pumping" rhythmic bass vocal.
11:45
Word Up!
Winners of a countywide high school spoken word
contest will perform their original work inspired by To Kill a Mockingbird.
11:30
Lunch Break with music by
Red
Mountain
Traditional Southern lunch provided by the Irondale
Cafe
$10 per person
12:30
Mary Badham
Mary Badham was chosen for the role of
"Scout" in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird at the age of ten with no
prior acting experience. She won an Oscar nomination for best supporting
actress and at the time was the youngest person ever to do so. Ms. Badham
will share her experience making the film and how it influenced her life and
work.
1:00
Fiddle tunes and old-time radio songs
by Red Mountain
Enjoy high-energy dance tunes, old-timey blues,
and sing-songs from the earliest days of country music inspired by the
Carter Family and the Delmore Brothers.
1:30
Sandy Jaffe
Sandy Jaffe is a filmmaker,
screenwriter, playwright, and script consultant who grew up in
Birmingham. Her documentary, Jazz in
the
Magic
City,
is on permanent display at the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame. Ms. Jaffe will
present a clip from her
latest documentary, Our Mockingbird, which
is still in production. She will lead a community discussion about the
novel and film as all presenters will join her on stage for a community
discussion.
2:45-3:00
Closing remarks
For
Sale
in the Atrium
Books
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper
Lee
Hardcover: $19.95
Paperback $12.95
Audiobook $49.95
The Lynching
of Emmett Till: A Documentary Narrative, Christopher Metress
($22.50)
Emmett Till
in Literary Memory and Imagination, Christopher Metress ($22.50)
Dixie’s
Forgotten People: The South’s Poor Whites, Wayne Flynt ($20.00)
Poor But
Proud:
Alabama’s
Poor Whites, Wayne Flynt ($25.00)
Alabama in
the Twentieth Century, Wayne Flynt ($35.00 paperback; $40.00
hardcover)
CDs
Fire in the Dumpster,
Red
Mountain
($15.00)
Chickens
Don’t Roost Too High,
Red
Mountain
($15.00)
Sweet Bama,
Red
Mountain
($15.00)
The Best of
the Four Eagles, The Four Eagles ($12.00)
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