FREE - Tickets available at the door

Documentary film screening: 
FREE FOR ALL: The Public Library
 

PLUS, After the film - join us for a conversation with the filmmaker Dawn Logsdon and Wayne Wiegand. Wayne is known as the "Dean of American Library Historians" and the author of numerous works on library history. He is currently working on a history of the San Francisco Public Library.
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Free For All: The Public Library tells the story of the quiet revolutionaries who made a simple idea happen. From the pioneering women behind the "Free Library Movement" to today's librarians who service the public despite working in a contentious age of closures and book bans, meet those who created a civic institution where everything is free and the doors are open to all.
 

Dawn Logsdon produced, directed and edited Faubourg Treme: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans, and co-directed Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton. Her editing credits include Jacques Pepin: The Art of Craft, The Weather Underground, Paragraph 175, The Castro, The Vanishing Line and Have you heard from Johannesburg among others.
 

Lucie Faulknor is an arts management and documentary film professional, Founder at Serendipity Films, LLLC. She produced the award-winning documentary  Faubourg Treme: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans. Lucie has worked with SFJAZZ, City Arts & Lectures, Dublin Fringe Festival, and more. 

The Lafayette Library Foundation's 15th Anniversary Programs are supported in part by Orchard Nursery and Friends of the Lafayette Library.