I’m pleased to announce that Los Angeles City Councilmember, Jose Huizar
has joined actor Joe Mantegna as a celebrity reader during the Ray Bradbury Read on August 22, 2016.
The Ray Bradbury Read will be a three-hour (12 noon to 3) event in Maguire Gardens situated between the Los Angeles Central Library and Ray Bradbury Square in downtown Los Angeles. The read will see public readings of excerpts from the novels, stories, poetry, and essays of Ray Bradbury, one of the most popular and important American writers of the Twentieth-century, and a great lover of the city of Los Angeles.
Most of the readers will be chosen from the public submitting proposals of excerpts to read, but several celebrity readers will read as well.
It is wonderfully appropriate that Councilmember Huizar should be one of those readers, as I believe Ray would have been thrilled with the Councilmember’s dedicated work toward making downtown Los Angeles a very livable area though his “Complete Streets” proposals, ushering in groundbreaking pedestrian and bike-friendly policies that are seen as the model for the entire City. Ray was a long time proponent of “humanizing” L.A. by getting people out of their cars and onto the streets and sidewalks to shop, eat, commune, and appreciate their surroundings.
I am currently working on inviting other celebrity readers, as well as designing the method by which members of the public can propose excerpts from Bradbury’s works that the would like to read, and which proposals will be chosen. I hope to have a Call for Submissions out by June 1.
You can keep informed of my progress by checking in on my blog at: http://tinyurl.com/leivablog
Or going to the Ray Bradbury Read event Facebook Page at: http://tinyurl.com/rbrevent
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| Councilmember Jose Huizar at the dedication of Ray Bradbury Square |
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