Mark Twain T-Shirt & Logo Design Contest!

The Big Read: Twain in the Rock River Basin!
Student Art Design & T-Shirt Competition

What: The nation's largest reading initiative for students and adults. Your design will be featured in the promotional campaign and on the official t-shirt! Top artwork will be on display in April at Studio 84 in Whitewater.

Who: K-12 school students enrolled at a school or home school in Rock, Walworth, or Jefferson County and surrounding communities.

The winning artist will receive the following fabulous prizes:

Collected Works of Mark Twain
Two free t-shirts with your design/artwork
Four tickets to Mark Twain Tonight! with Hal Holbrook on April 21st, 2012 at 7:30 pm
Artist credit as the official designer of the 2012 Big Read t-shirt

Contest Rules:

*Artwork should relate to Mark Twain in Wisconsin or Twain in the Rock River Basin!
*Artwork should have a maximum of 3 colors.
*Any medium is acceptable. (photo, paint, digital, pen & ink, etc.)
*Artwork should be in one of the following accepted sizes: 5x7, 8x10, 11x14, or 16x20.
*Contest will be judged by an impartial jury. All decisions are final. Winners will be announced in late March 2012 and will be contacted by email.
*Artwork and reproduction rights will become property of the Young Auditorium.

Official entry forms are available in the Children's Department. Entries are due by March 6, 2012. Artwork will be displayed from April 1 to mid-May 2012.

Questions? Contact Ben Strand at (262) 472-4444

BIG READ BLOG: http://youngauditorium.wordpress.com

This week's big event!

Can you name the celebrity here?

How much would you love to give him a sparkly makeover? Or maybe add a zit or two to his face?

Want to watch a movie on the big screen? Eat treats?

If any of these things sound appealing, come out to our School's Back Lock-in THIS Friday, starting at 7 pm. We'll have food and activities that will be open to those 12-19 only. We are keeping this super laid back, meaning we'll do what you want to do -- so let us know. Games? Reading? Legos? A movie? We're open to it.

No need to sign up. Just show up at 7. We'll let you in. Event ends promptly at 10 pm.

Teen Book Club

We're having a little trouble getting copies of October 6th's book club pick, Glow, by Amy Kathleen Ryan, so we're going to try something else out -- we'll discuss Jonathan Maberry's Rot and Ruin, since last week's meeting didn't work out, and we'll have a chance to talk about everything else we've been reading. So, read anything you want to and we'll talk about it.

We'll skip our reading and discussion of Glow until the winter, and at next week's meeting, we'll have copies of Want to Go Private? for you to pick up.

I'm sad because I think Glow would have been an excellent discussion, but we'll have a chance to get to it when more copies become available. Plus, I'm eager to hear what you guys are reading, and I'm eager to pass on some of the books I think you'll love to you, too.

See you next Thursday, October 6, at 3:30 pm. We'll meet upstairs, rather than in the meeting room.