Events

March 27, 2026 @ 3:00 pm – 3:45 pm – C2E2 Panel: What does it mean to make art and promote comics reading in an age of censorship? In the last five years, schools and libraries have experienced record levels of bans and challenges. Comics and graphic novels are regularly targeted for censorship, particularly those authored by LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC creators, and those focusing on […]

March 27, 2026 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm – Film screening organized by the Maplewood Film Society. The Maplewood Film Society is proud to partner with the Maplewood Library for this special event. As part of the 2026 Maplewood Ideas Festival, we will be showing an exclusive Maplewood screening of the award-winning documentary, The Librarians. The film will be followed by a discussion about […]

March 28, 2026 @ 11:00 am – 5:00 pm – Film screening. Librarians emerge as first responders in the fight for democracy and our First Amendment Rights. As they well know, controlling the flow of ideas means control over communities. In Texas, the Krause List targets 850 books focused on race and LGBTQia+ stories — triggering sweeping book bans across the U.S. at an unprecedented […]

April 20, 2026 @ 12:00 am – Virtual event. URL: https://uniteagainstbookbans.org/right-to-read-day/ Right to Read Day is a time to celebrate our wins and take action against book bans! On April 20, 2026, the American Library Association will release the State of America’s Libraries 2026 Report, which will reveal the latest censorship data and the Top 10 Most Challenged Books of 2025 list. […]

April 23, 2026 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm – Join Global Peace 360 at the Winter Park Library during National Library Week for a special Indie Lens Pop Up screening of The Librarians, a film directed by Kim A. Snyder that shines a spotlight on the importance of public libraries in our public discourse. When Texas lawmakers seek to review a list of books, librarians find […]