Arts & CultureMonday, November 16
Banned Books on FILM - Slaughterhouse-Five
Monday, November 16 · 1-3 p.m. · Thomas Branigan Memorial Library
- When
- Monday, November 16 · 1-3 p.m.
- Where
- Thomas Branigan Memorial Library200 E Picacho Ave · Las Cruces, NM · 88001
About this event
Banned Books on FILM is a film series that screens the film version of banned books. The selection for the month of November, Honoring Veteran's Day, is Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Join us to watch Slaughterhouse-Five (1972) on Monday November 16, 1:00 to 3:00 pm. Directed by George Roy Hill, rated R. Light Refreshments will be served.
Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death" is a semi-autobiographical, satirical, science fiction novel. Billy Pilgrim, the book's unreliable narrator, is on a time traveling journey where the tension between testifying to the violence witnessed as a P.O.W and repressing post-traumatic stress, propels him across space and time. Atrocities abound where free will is stripped, but what of the individuals' moral responsibility? So it goes...See the film before attending the book discussion on November 19th at noon.
Watch the trailer HERE.
The Banned Book Club meets early this month due to the Thanksgiving holiday, November 19 at 12:00.
Books are available for check out at the reference desk, the audiobook is available on the Libby app and the eBook is available on Hoopla.
Join the online meeting via Microsoft Teams using code: 291-029-649-672-37
Passcode banned
Listed by CitySpark: Las Cruces, NM, gathered by the Las Cruces events calendar.