Long Beach City College
supports
Long Beach Reads One Book 2006

Again this year, the city of Long Beach has committed to reading a book together as a community in the Long Beach Reads One Book Program. The aim of this program is to promote reading, literacy and fellowship as the community joins in discussion of the book.

This year’s book:
My California: Journeys by Great Writers
Donna Wares (Editor)
Paperback: 204 pages
Publisher: Angel City Press
ISBN: 1883318432

The book is available at both LBCC Libraries or buy it at both LBCC Bookstores, your local Long Beach Borders and Barnes & Noble, or Amazon.com.

LBCC Events and Participation
• March 2 • Firoozeh Dumas
• March 14 • Anh Do
• March 16 • D. J. Waldie
• Impressions: Choose Your Medium: A Creative Response
• A California Moment Video Diary

Thursday, March 2: Firoozeh Dumas (“Bienvenidos a Newport Beach”) discusses My California at Long Beach City College. Her talk begins at noon at the Liberal Arts Campus Student Center, Nordic Lounge, 4901 East Carson Street, corner of Clark Avenue and Carson Street. An authentic Middle Eastern meal will also be for sale to pre-registered students, staff, faculty, alumni, and members of the community. This event is sponsored and funded by ASB Enterprises.
Contact Marty Wayland, mwayland@lbcc.edu

http://www.firoozehdumas.com

Tuesday, March 14:  Anh Do (“My Little Saigon”) is the featured speaker at a Long Beach City College forum titled “The Immigrant Experience.” Her event is 11 A.M. to noon at Dyer Hall on the Pacific Coast Campus, 1305 East Pacific Coast Highway, corner of Orange Avenue and PCH. Contact C.C. Sadler, csadler@lbcc.edu, or Jordan Fabish, jfabish@lbcc.edu

Anh Do writes an Asian affairs column for The Orange County Register and is vice president of business at Nguoi Viet Daily News (http://www.nguoi-viet.com/), the oldest and largest Vietnamese-language newspaper in the United States. She is a graduate of the University of Southern California and has studied international relations at Regents College in London and Spanish at the National Autonomous University in Mexico City. Her writing about race, culture and faith has been honored by Columbia University's School of Journalism, the University of Washington's DART award and the Asian American Journalists Association. Do previously worked at The Dallas Morning News and The Seattle Times and has reported from India, Mexico, Vietnam, Guatemala, Peru, England and Cuba. She lives in Orange County.

Thursday, March 16:  D.J. Waldie talks about the history of Long Beach City College, its neighboring city of Lakewood, and his My California essay, “An Ordinary Place,” at Long Beach City College, 11:30 A.M. to 1 P.M., Liberal Arts Campus Auditorium, 4901 East Carson Street, corner of Clark Avenue and Carson Street. Contact C.C. Sadler, csadler@lbcc.edu, or Jordan Fabish, jfabish@lbcc.edu

D.J. Waldie is the author of Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir; Real City: Downtown Los Angeles Inside/Out; and Where We Are Now: Notes from Los Angeles. His book reviews and commentary appear in the Los Angeles Times. He is a contributing writer for Los Angeles Magazine. He lives in Lakewood in the house his parents bought in 1946.
Links:
http://www.californiaauthors.com/excerpt-waldie.shtml
http://www.americancity.org/article.php?id_article=101

Impressions: Choose Your Medium
A call to LBCC students to respond to the book in various kinds of media: poetry, essay, video, performance, art, music, etc. Coordinated by Jordan Fabish. Instructors, encourage your students to read it and submit a response. For writers and artists of many media: dance, photography, personal essays, poetry, family histories, sketches, murals, oral interpretation — YOUR medium — to be displayed at the college March 16.

A California Moment
A video diary of LBCC colleagues speaking of their California experiences, stemming from themes in the book.
This full project can be packaged as a half-hour show.
• Can be used in the classroom by LBUSD, LBCC and CSULB instructors
• Broadcast on various cable stations throughout the city, including LBCC Cable
To obtain a copy to broadast in your classroom, contact C.C. Sadler at csadler@lbcc.edu

Web Sites
Long Beach Public Library Foundation http://lbplfoundation.org
http://lbplfoundation.org/lb_reads_one_book

http://www.mycaliforniaproject.org/ The online home of My California: Journeys by Great Writers.

http://www.californiaauthors.com