Big Read 2017 The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

YOGA & MEDITATION January 5, 12, 19, 26 and February 2, 9, 16, 23 - I AM Yoga - Integrated

Amrit Method. First-time participants welcome, moves can be adapted for all levels, 10 to 11:30AM, South Regional/ Broward College Library January 9, 23, 30 and February 6, 13, 27 - Chair Yoga with Ester, 12 to

1PM, Main Library

January 21 and February 18 -

Meditation: Relax and Breathe. Stressrelieving mediation class, 10:30 to 11:30AM, Southwest Regional Library January 21 - Ayurveda, 2 to 4PM, Carver Ranches Library January 23 - Ayurveda and Yoga: Science of Life in India, 1:30 to 2:30PM, Main Library

BOOK DISCUSSIONS January 14 - Book Discussion with

librarian David Jess, 1:30 to 3PM, Pompano Beach Library January 17 - Imperial Point Book Club, 1 to 2:30PM, Imperial Point Library January 17 - Book Discussion with literary reviewer Lynda Levin, 1:30 to 3PM, Stirling Road Library January 21 - Book Discussion with librarian Morgan Reeves, 3:30 to 5PM, North Regional/Broward College Library January 24 - Book Discussion with librarian Lisa Lobel, 2 to 3PM, Tamarac Library January 25 - Book Talk for Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo, 1 to 2PM, Pembroke Pines/Walter C. Young Resource Center January 25 and February 22 - Cover 2 Cover Book Club, 6:30 to 7:30PM, Sunrise Dan Pearl Library January 26 - Book Discussion, 10:30AM to 12PM, African-American Research Library and Cultural Center January 26 - Book Discussion, 2 to 3PM, Davie/Cooper City Library

January 26 - Cinema Presentation and February 2 - Book Discussion, 12 to Discussion, 2 to 4PM, Galt Ocean Mile 1PM, Lauderhill Towne Centre Library Reading Center February 2 - Book Discussion, 1 to January 26 - Hollywood Film Series 2PM, Main Library Celebrates India: Darjeeling Limited, 3 to February 6 - Book Discussion, 5:30 to 5:30PM, Southwest Regional Library 6:30PM, Lauderhill Central Park Library January 28 - Movie, 12 to 2:30PM, February 7 - Spanish Book Discussion, Dania Beach Paul DeMaio Library 6 to 7:30PM, Northwest Regional Library January 29 - Bollywood Movie, 2 to February 11 - Book Discussion, 10:30 4:30PM, Young At Art Museum/Broward to 11:30AM, Miramar Branch Library and County Library Education Center February 2 - Movie Matinee, 12 to February 11 - Book Discussion, 11AM 2:30PM, North Regional/Broward College to 12PM, Northwest Branch Library Library February 11 - Book Talk, 12 to 4PM, February 2, 9 - Hollywood Film Series Margate Catharine Young Library Celebrates India: 2/2: Bride and Prejudice; February 13 - Dear 2/9: Monsoon Wedding; Readers Book Club, 12:30 3 to 5:30PM, Southwest to 1:30PM, Deerfield Beach Regional Library Percy White Library February 4, 11 February 14 - Book Bollywood Film Series, 2 Discussion, 11AM to 1:30PM, to 4:30PM, West Regional Herb Skolnick Center Library “Pack a pillow February 4 - Movie February 14 - Book Discussion facilitated by the and a blanket and screening, discussion and Pembroke Pines Charter of Indian cuisine, see as much of sampling School, 12:30 to 2PM, to 5PM, North Lauderdale Southwest Regional Library the world as you 3Saraniero Library February 14 - The Page can. You will not February 7 - Movie Turner’s Book Club Discussion, regret it. One day discussion with filmmaker 2 to 3PM, South Regional/ Adanto, 4 to it will be too late.” Robert Broward College Library 6:30PM, Stirling Road February 15 - Book Talk, ~ Jhumpa Lahiri Library 1:30 to 2:30PM, Century The Namesake February 11 - Bollywood Plaza/Leon Slatin Library Comes to Miramar: Bride February 18 - Books & Bites and Prejudice, 2 to 4PM, Book Club Discussion, 3 to Miramar Branch Library and 4PM, Hallandale Beach Library Education Center February 12 - Movie and Discussion, 2 to 4PM, Young At Art Museum/Broward County Library January 21 - LC Cinema, 1 to 3PM, February 13 - Movie Night, 5:30 to Lauderhill Towne Centre Library 7:30PM, Lauderhill Central Park Library January 21 - Book n’ Movie Matinee, February 22 - Film Discussion, 3:30 to 2 to 5PM, West Regional Library 6PM, Sunrise Dan Pearl Library January 25 - Movie and Popcorn, February 24 - Friday Flick, 3 to 5PM, 11AM to 1PM, Lauderdale Lakes Library Hollywood Library January 26 - Movie Matinee, 1:30 to 3:30PM, Carver Ranches Library

FILM PROGRAMS

THE CULTURE OF INDIA January 25 - Visit India through The

Namesake and sample Indian cuisine, 6 to 7:30PM, Jan Moran Collier City Learning Library January 26 - Saree: Indian Womanhood, 12 to 1PM, Main Library February 2, 9, 16, 23 - Color of Calm: Mandalas, ages 16 and up, 1 to 2PM, South Regional/Broward College Library February 18 - Namaste India!

Celebration of Indian culture, 3 to 4PM, Carver Ranches Library February 25 - Bollywood-Dance Away!

Wear comfortable clothes and footwear, all ages. 2 to 4PM, Hollywood Library

CHILDREN, TEENS & FAMILIES January 14 - Celebration: Snacks,

crafts and readings, all ages/families, 1 to 2:30PM, Riverland Library January 19 - Teen Crafternoon: Henna, 4 to 6PM, Alvin Sherman Library at Nova Southeastern University January 21 - Stories from India with Crafts, 11AM to 12PM, Northwest Regional Library January 21 - Namaste India Children’s Program, 12 to 2PM, Tyrone Bryant Library January 23 - Bharatnatyam: Dance performance, ages 6-12, registration required, 4 to 5PM, Carver Ranches Library January 28 - Indian Elephant Card Making, ages 5 and up, 2 to 3PM, North Regional/Broward College Library February 4 - Learn How to Create Henna Tattoos, 1 to 2:30PM, Young At Art Museum/Broward County Library February 4 - Kids Yoga, grades 1-5, 2 to 3PM, Lauderhill Towne Centre Library February 4 - Yoga for Children, ages 4-8, 10:30 to 11AM, Northwest Regional Library February 23 - Learn Nach BollywoodStyle Dancing, ages 10-18, 3 to 4PM, North Lauderdale Saraniero Library

African-American Research Library and Cultural Center 2650 Sistrunk Blvd. Fort Lauderdale • 33311 954-357-6282

Event Locations

North Lauderdale Saraniero Library 6901 Kimberly Blvd.

North Lauderdale • 33068 • 954-357-6660

Carver Ranches Library 4735 S.W. 18 Street West Park • 33023 • 954-357-6245

North Regional/Broward College Library 1100 Coconut Creek Blvd.

Coconut Creek • 33066 • 954-201-2600

Century Plaza/Leon Slatin Library 1856 A W. Hillsboro Blvd. Deerfield Beach • 33442 954-357-7740

Northwest Branch Library 1580 N.W. 3 Avenue Pompano Beach • 33060 • 954-357-6599

Dania Beach Paul DeMaio Library 1 Park Avenue East Dania Beach • 33004 • 954-357-7073

Northwest Regional Library 3151 University Drive Coral Springs • 33065 • 954-357-7990

Davie/Cooper City Library 4600 S.W. 82 Avenue Davie • 33328 • 954-357-6399

Alvin Sherman Library at Nova Southeastern University 3100 Ray Ferrero, Jr. Blvd.

Fort Lauderdale • 33314 • 954-262-5477

Deerfield Beach Percy White Library 837 E. Hillsboro Blvd.

Deerfield Beach • 33441 • 954-357-7680

Pembroke Pines/Walter C. Young Resource Center 955 N.W. 129 Ave. Pembroke Pines • 33028 • 954-357-6750

Galt Ocean Mile Reading Center 3403 Galt Ocean Drive Fort Lauderdale • 33308 • 954-357-7840

Pompano Beach Library 1213 E. Atlantic Blvd.

Pompano Beach • 33060 • 954-357-7595

Hallandale Beach Library 300 S. Federal Highway Hallandale • 33009 • 954-357-6380

Riverland Library 2710 W. Davie Boulevard, Fort Lauderdales • 33312 • 954-357-7455

Herb Skolnick Center 800 S.W. 36 Ave Pompano Beach • 33069 • 954-786-4590

South Regional/Broward College Library 7300 Pines Blvd.

Pembroke Pines • 33024 • 954-201-8825

Hollywood Library 2600 Hollywood Blvd.

Hollywood • 33020 • 954-357-7760

Southwest Regional Library 16835 Sheridan St. Pembroke Pines • 33331 • 954-357-6580

Imperial Point Library 5985 N. Federal Highway Fort Lauderdale • 33308 • 954-357-6530

Stirling Road Library 3151 Stirling Road Hollywood • 33312 • 954-357-7550

Jan Moran Collier City Learning Library 2800 N.W. 9 Court Pompano Beach • 33069 • 954-357-7670

Sunrise Dan Pearl Library 10500 W. Oakland Park Blvd.

Sunrise • 33351 • 954-357-7440

Lauderhill Central Park Library 3810 N.W. 11 Place Lauderhill • 33311 • 954-357-7833

Tamarac Library 8701 W. Commercial Blvd.

Tamarac • 33351 • 954-765-1500

Lauderdale Lakes Library 3580 W. Oakland Park Blvd.

Lauderdale Lakes • 33311 • 954-357-8650

Tyrone Bryant Library 2230 N.W. 21 Avenue Fort Lauderdale • 33311 • 954-357-8210

Lauderhill Towne Centre Library 6399 W. Oakland Park Blvd.

Lauderhill • 33313 • 954-357-6406

West Regional Library 8601 W. Broward Blvd.

Plantation • 33324 • 954-765-1560

Main Library 100 S. Andrews Avenue Fort Lauderdale • 33301 • 954-357-7444

Weston Library 4205 Bonaventure Blvd.

Weston • 33332 • 954-357-5420

Margate Catharine Young Library 5810 Park Drive Margate • 33063 • 954-357-7500

Young at Art Museum/Broward County Library, 751 S.W. 121 Avenue Davie • 33325 • 954-357-5437

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The

namesake

by Jhumpa Lahiri

Broward.org/Library/Read

Association of Performing Arts of India

The Namesake takes the Ganguli family from their tradition-bound life in Calcutta through their fraught transformation into Americans. On the heels of their arranged wedding, Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli settle together in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

When their son is born, the task of naming him betrays the vexed results of bringing old ways to the new world. Named for a Russian writer in memory of a catastrophe years before, Gogol Ganguli knows only that he suffers the burden of his heritage as well as his odd name.

With penetrating insight, Jhumpa Lahiri reveals Saturday, January 21 “She has not only the defining power of the names 1 to 4PM and expectations bestowed upon us by the gift of Northwest Regional our parents, but also the means by which we slowly, sometimes painfully, come to accepting Library define ourselves. The novel’s finely wrought Passport to India will feature a her life.” descriptions of Bengali food, language, colorful, unique blend of traditional family customs and Hindu rituals draw us ~ from and contemporary dance, music deep inside the culture that Gogol’s parents The Namesake and art. Attendees can taste treasure while highlighting his own alienation and learn about Indian cuisine, from it. Gogol becomes an architect, falls in decorate themselves with henna, learn to drape a saree and find love and eventually marries without ever fully out about the country where embracing his heritage. His decades-long Jhumpa Lahiri’s book begins. unease with his name is a perfect distillation Presented in partnership with the of the multiple dislocations — cultural, historic, and Association of Performing Arts of India. familial — experienced by first-generation Americans. At the novel’s climax he begins to understand, at least in part his parents’ longing for the past, and the sacrifices they made to help him be what he is — truly American.

Highlighted Programs THE BIG READ KICKOFF: Passport to India

BENGALI ELEPHANT TEXTILE ART WORKSHOP presented by Young At Art

THE BIG READ, a community-wide reading project, is exploring The Namesake by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri, with a full calendar of events including book and film discussions, lectures, writing and visual arts workshops, Indian cultural programs and other fun, familyfriendly programs.

Contact Tara Zimmermann, Florida Center for the Book Program Coordinator, at 954-357-7386 or at tzimmerm@broward.org or visit Broward.org/Library/Read for more details.

The Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest.

The Big Read is being presented locally

by Florida Center for the Book at Broward County Library, Young At Art Museum and the Association of the Performing Arts of India.

Saturday, January 21 • 1 to 2PM Young At Art Museum/ Broward County Library

VIRTUAL REALITY TOURS OF INDIA

THE POETRY OF INDIA THROUGH THE AGES

Main Library Creation Station

Pembroke Pines Library Wednesday, February 1 • 6 to 7PM Lauderhill Towne Centre Library Thursday, February 2 11AM to Noon South Regional/ Broward College Library Tuesday, February 21 • 6 to 7PM

January 21 – February 28 The Creation Station at Main Library will offer Virtual Reality tours of India! Stop in and take the trip of a lifetime!

BANKURA HORSE SCULPTURE OF WEST BENGAL ART WORKSHOP presented by Young At Art Saturday, January 28 11AM to Noon Miramar Branch Library and Education Center Registration required.

Call 954-357-8180

Join us for a small sampling of the incredible wealth of poetry that exists in India, from thousands of years ago to the present day, read aloud in English by Rick McKenzie, local poet and co-author of the poetry collection Money.

Love heeds not caste “That’s the thing norbooks. sleepThey about a broken let you travel bed.

I went without moving in search of your feet.” love and lost ~ Jhumpa Lahiri myself.

The Namesake

Tuesday, February 28 • 4 to 5PM Weston Library

Saturday, February 25 2 to 3PM Pembroke Pines Library Pre-registration begins February 11.

Call 954-357-6750

Library visitors will get a chance to create a beautiful and colorful Bengali elephant textile. Among the variety of arts and crafts in Bengal, one of the most famous is their fine embroidery. A Young At Art Educator will showcase several traditional examples of designs including folk stories, flowers, birds, animals and geometric patterns.

Elephant designs, symbolizing wisdom, courage, stature and strength, are the most popular among the many patterns.

Discover one of the most famous forms of art of West Bengal – Bankura horses. Bankura horses are tall sculptures made from terracotta and used for decorative and religious purposes in India. Participants will create their own Bankura horses using clay and traditional tools, shaping them with bamboo and stones.

Saturday, February 4 • 2 to 3PM Deerfield Beach Percy White Library

- Hindu Proverb.

“THE POLITICAL, SOCIAL, AND CULTURAL MORES THAT SHAPED JHUMPA LAHIRI’S INTERPRETER OF MALADIES AND THE NAMESAKE.” Presented by Dr. Somnath Bhattacharya, Dean of the Gus Machado School of Business at St. Thomas University

Thursday, February 16 1 to 2PM North Regional/ Broward College Library Join us as Dr. Bhattacharya, a native of Calcutta, India, provides us with an overview of the culture and history of contemporary India which serve as the backdrop to Jhumpa Lahiri’s writings.

HOLI FESTIVAL OF COLORS

THE BIG READ

Saturday, February 18 •2 to 4PM Southwest Regional Library Holi is a Hindu spring festival in India and Nepal, also known as the festival of colors or the festival of sharing love.

Highlights of this festival will include: “Celestial India,” a dance performance by Nritay Surhabhi School of Dance, sitar music performed by the Association of Performing Arts of India, food tastings and the grand finale color toss!

LIFE AS MASH UP AMERICANS Saturday, February 25 • 2 to 3:30PM West Regional Library This teen workshop presented by young adult authors Steven dos Santos and Stacie Ramey will discuss Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake as it relates to the pressures of being a child of immigrants, as well as the specific rice ceremony described in the book, and the theme of destiny/ fate belief systems of different cultures and/or young adult literature. Most importantly, the authors will discuss how today’s teens self-identify.

Interactive games and activities will help teens express their own true versionof themselves.

Love heeds not caste nor sleep a broken bed.

I went in search of love and lost myself. ~ from The Namesake

FLORIDA MEMORIES PROJECT Do you have an interesting Florida immigrant story you want to share?

Share it with Florida Center for the Book in writing and the Main Library’s Creation Station: Memory will add it to its fledgling archives.

Tell us your story of coming to Florida, culture clashes you’ve experienced or how you live or experience the various cultures represented in our state. All entrants will receive a free copy of The Namesake.

Guidelines: • 800-1000 words, typed and e-mailed

to tzimmerm@broward.org

• Please attach a photo of yourself or your family • Please type in the subject line:

The Big Read Florida Memories Project

• Submission period: Now – February 28, 2017 • You will be asked to sign a release allowing archiving.

Please note stories might be edited for length and grammar.

Want to tell your story in a medium other than writing?

Florida Center for the Book will accept your Big Read Florida Memories stories as represented through the visual arts, including photography, painting and film. Please e-mail Florida Center for the Book with questions or attach a scan or copy of your work.

Digitized oral histories will also be accepted on a case-bycase basis.