[CENSORED] Matinee
Sun, Nov 19
|Kirkwood High School Theater
[Censored]: Banned Books and Forbidden Stories highlights books on the American Library Association (ALA) list of most banned and challenged books. The performance is designed to entertain, uplift, and provoke thought and action.
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Time & Location
Nov 19, 2023, 3:00 PM
Kirkwood High School Theater, 801 West Essex Ave., Kirkwood, MO 63122
About the Event
CHARIS, The St. Louis Women’s Chorus, will perform Censored: Banned Books and Forbidden Stories on Saturday, November 18, 2023 at 7:00 pm and Sunday, November 19, 2023 at 3:00 pm at Kirkwood High School Theatre, 801 West Essex Avenue, St. Louis, MO.
Censored: Banned Books and Forbidden Stories highlights books on the American Library Association (ALA) list of most banned and challenged books. The program opens with the wondrous “Pure Imagination” by Bricusse & Newley, paired with Eric Carle’s beautiful illustrated children’s book, Draw Me a Star. We focus on the development of self, expressed through Gwyneth Walker’s “Now I Become Myself,” which we associate with Kobabe’s Gender Queer. The breathtaking and heartbreaking “Stardust” by B.E. Boykin honors Black lives lost to violence, echoing themes in Thomas’s The Hate U Give. Haugen’s “It is the Silence” takes its text directly from The Diary of Anne Frank. Our own singer/composer Melinda…