Overview
Grab your book and touch grass (literally)! We’re making reading an outdoor sport with the new Reading at the Plaza series. Bring a lawn chair or blanket … and get comfy on NJPAC’s redesigned front yard with our featured selection or a book of your own choosing. Reading at the Plaza includes silent reading time, live poetry performances and a book talk facilitated by producing partner Source of Knowledge, a Black community center in the heart of Newark. Let yourself feel grounded in a good story!
Program
5:30 – 6PM Silent reading
6 – 6:15PM Poetry with Mia X
6:15 – 7:15PM Book discussion
7:15 – 7:30PM Conclusion
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Join a community of book lovers and conversationalists on NJPAC’s front yard. Catch up on your reading during silent reading time and gain fresh insights — in the fresh air — with a book talk on this month’s special selection.
Keeper of Lost Children, the latest novel written by New York Times bestselling author Sadeqa Johnson, is May’s featured book. It’s a gripping story about how one woman’s vision in post-World War II Germany ties three people together in unexpected ways.
Copies of the book will be available for purchase in advance (order here) or at a pop-up store at the event from Source of Knowledge.
Grab a bite to enjoy with your book! The Yard, located nearby in Military Park, is offering a 15% discount to those who purchase food on May 27 from 5:30 – 7:30PM. Use discount code: SOK/NJPAC0527
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Join a community of book lovers and conversationalists on NJPAC’s front yard. Catch up on your reading during silent reading time and gain fresh insights — in the fresh air — with a book talk on this month’s special selection.
Burn Down Master’s House is the latest novel by Clay Cane, an award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author. It’s historical fiction inspired by true, long-buried stories of enslaved people who dared to fight back. Copies of the book will be available for purchase in advance (order here) or at a pop-up store at the event from Source of Knowledge.
Grab a bite to enjoy with your book! The Yard, located nearby in Military Park, is offering a 15% discount to those who purchase food on June 17 from 5:30 – 7:30PM. Use discount code: SOK/NJPAC0617.
RSVP
Join a community of book lovers and conversationalists on NJPAC’s front yard. Catch up on your reading during silent reading time and gain fresh insights — in the fresh air — with a book talk on this month’s special selection.
Kin by Tayari Jones is the concluding book in this summer’s Reading in the Plaza series. An Oprah’s Book Club Pick, the novel is about mothers and daughters, friendship and sisterhood, and the complexities of being a woman in the American South. Copies of the book will be available for purchase in advance (order here) or at a pop-up store at the event from Source of Knowledge.
Grab a bite to enjoy with your book! The Yard, located nearby in Military Park, is offering a 15% discount to those who purchase food on July 29 from 5:30 – 7:30PM. Use discount code: SOK/NJPAC0729.