by the El Reportero’s staff
The Oakland Public Library has reading, fun, and adventure for children, teens, and adults this summer. For kids and adults, the library is offering its annual Summer Reading Challenge, with various incentives designed to get people reading and visiting the library.
Teens can participate in the Teen Summer Passport, a fun program that encourages teens to engage with their community while visiting cultural spots around the Bay Area.
In 2014, more than 10,000 children participated in the Oakland Public Library’s Summer Reading Program, with over 5,000 kids reading 20 or more days during the summer. Summer Reading and the Passport program begin June 13 and conclude on Aug. 8. Free lunch for youths will be available at several library locations.
For more information, please www.oaklandsummerreading.com or contact Sharon McKellar, Community Relations Librarian, at 510-238-3513.
The third US Social Forum in San Jose
Hundreds organizations and institutions, representatives of social movements from around the world will come together at the third US Social Forum, to share their experiences and strengthen their relationships to make another world possible.
The US Social Forum (USSF), politically and economically independent, is a movement building process led by impacted communities.
The USSF provides spaces to learn from each other’s experiences and struggles, share analysis of the problems
our communities face, build relationships, and align with our international
brothers and sisters to strategize how to reclaim our world.
“We live day to day in crisis and struggle. For the first time in history we are experiencing a rapidly deepening crisis of global capitalism affecting millions in the United States and billions world-wide – producing austerity policies and massive permanent unemployment and poverty, social destruction, and intensifying political attacks, repression, and the threat of fascism and war everywhere.
On June 24-28, 2015, at the Washington United Youth Center, 921 S. First Street, Suite B, San Jose, California. It will also be happening in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and several satellite locations.
Saves Prisoner Lives: National Conference Champions Arts Programs in Prisons
A conference on arts programs in prisons taking place at USF next week, June 16-19. Bringing together the top minds on prison reform, the conference will explore how arts education promotes rehabilitation and reduces recidivism.
Panel discussions and key note speeches will focus on the most innovative approaches to integrating the arts into corrections in order to reduce the huge burden of incarceration that our state continues to endure.
California Lawyers for the Arts and the William James Association will team with the University of San Francisco (USF) to host a conference on arts programs in prisons. “Arts in Corrections: Opportunities for Justice and Rehabilitation” will make the case that arts education promotes rehabilitation and reduces recidivism. The four-day conference will take place at the University of San Francisco and San Quentin State Prison, June 16 through June 19, 2015. For more information on the conference, please visit http://bit.ly/1dJteOI.
