Join us and 2018 Ernest Gaines Award for Literary Excellence recipient Ladee Hubbard as she presents for our 11th in
Celebrating Ernest J. Gaines
Fri, 09/05/2014 - 8:00amMake plans to attend some of the upcoming events celebrating the 50th anniversary of Gaines' first novel publication, Catherine Carmier.
- Sept. 17: Film screening of An Obsession of Mine and The Sky is Gray (6:30 South Regional Library)
- Sept. 24: Film screening of A Lesson before Dying (6:30 South Regional Library)
- Oct. 1: Film screening of A Gathering of Old Men (6:30 South Regional Library)
- Oct. 8: Film screening of The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (6:30 South Regional Library)
- Oct. 9: Bayou Book Talk on Ernest J. Gaines by Dr. Marcia Gaudet and Dr. Reggie Young (6:30 South Regional Library)
- Oct. 15: Reading by Jeffery Renard Allen, 2009 winner of the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence (6:30 Ernest J. Gaines Center at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette)
- Oct. 22: Book discussion of The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (6:30 South Regional Library)
- Nov. 1: Discussion with Gaines at the Louisiana Book Festival (All day, State Capitol in Baton Rouge)
- Nov. 2: Reading by Gaines at UL Lafayette (4 p.m. Moody 103)
- Nov. 8: Pointe Coupee Book Fair (10 a.m. – 2 p.m. New Roads, LA)
- Nov. 21: 2nd Annual Ernest J. Gaines Lecture by Dr. John Lowe (1 p.m. Ernest J. Gaines Center at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette)