Banned Together Documentary Screening & Standing Up to Censorship Community Conversation

Celebrate Banned Books Week at the Drexel Theatre (2254 E Main St, Bexley, OH 43209) with a screening of the award-winning documentary Banned Together. The screening will be followed by a facilitated community conversation with local library professionals exploring the rise of book challenges and what we can do to stand up to censorship.

This program is presented by Bexley Public Library in partnership with The Drexel Theatre.

About the Film:
A diverse cast of visionary teenagers, stirring public protests, private threats, criminal charges, and drama-filled school board meetings: this is the explosive world of BANNED TOGETHER. The film pulls back the curtain on two of the most controversial issues in America today: book bans and curriculum censorship in public schools.

BANNED TOGETHER follows three students as they fight to reinstate 97 books suddenly pulled from their school libraries. As they evolve from local to national activists, they meet with banned authors, politicians, and the major players protecting the First Amendment of our Constitution. Woven throughout the story about the student activists include Congressman Jamie Raskin; bestselling and banned authors like Juno Dawson, Jodi Picoult, Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, Erika L. Sánchez, and Ellen Hopkins; First Amendment warriors like Jonathan Friedman from PEN America and Deborah Caldwell-Stone from the ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom; Prof. Justin Hansford, the Executive Director of the Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center at Howard University School of Law; Olivia Little, a senior investigative researcher from Media Matters for America who's done in-depth reporting about Moms for Liberty since early 2021; organizations fighting on the front lines in Florida; Maurice Cunningham, author of "Dark Money and the Politics of School Privatization"; and IL Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias who wrote the first anti-book-ban legislation in the country… to name just a few!

You may also like the following events from Bexley Public Library:

• This Saturday, 4th October, 02:00 pm, Artist Talk and Poetry Reading: Emily Morgan and Diane Callahan In Conversation in Bexley
• This Sunday, 5th October, 03:00 pm, Essential Ingredients: Cookbooks as History Decorative Arts Center of Ohio Curator Talk Series in Columbus
• Next Friday, 10th October, 04:30 pm, Anime Club in Columbus

Also check out other Arts events in Bexley, Theatre events in Bexley, Literary Art events in Bexley.