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LITERARY FEAST 2010 WAS A BEST SELLER
Nearly 525 Broward Public Library Foundation supporters recently attended the 22nd edition of Literary Feast’s fundraising Night of Literary Feasts, meeting 21 nationally acclaimed authors including Russell Banks, Elizabeth Kostova, Lisa See, Mireille Guiliano, and Anne Heller.
For the ninth consecutive year, Nova Southeastern University was the Title Sponsor of Literary Feast 2010, which raised more than $155,000 to benefit children’s and literacy programs as well as computer instruction classes throughout the Broward County Library system.
Literary Feast events also included Novel Day for Students, during which the authors visited 18 public high schools and Nova Southeastern University classrooms to discuss their work and the craft of writing. At each school, the authors announced the student winners of the Novel Day for Students short story writing contest, underwritten by sponsors Bank of America and the Josephine S. Leiser Foundation, Inc. At LitLIVE!, the authors participated in a free daylong series of talks and panel discussions at NSU’s Alvin Sherman Library.
“It’s always an honor for Nova Southeastern University to host the annual LitLIVE! event,” said NSU Chancellor Ray Ferrero, Jr. “Each year, LitLIVE! allows us to provide booklovers with personal interaction with renowned authors, to promote literacy, and to support our library system – which, in these tough economic times, is even more vital to the community.”
“The Literary Feast has long been my very favorite literary festival,” said best-selling author Joy Fielding, one of this year’s Literary Feast authors. “It allows authors and readers to meet, mingle and dine in a fabulous setting, as well as helping promote literacy and encourage a love of reading in our high schools and community.”
Tom Cundy, chairman and CEO of Cundy, Inc., hosted the annual Meeting of the Minds, a gathering of the guest authors, the Night of Literary Feast dinner hosts and select sponsors.
Co-chairs Diane Brewer of Gibraltar Private Bank & Trust and entrepreneur Joseph Piccirilli led a 40-member volunteer committee. “As a member of the Library Foundation Board of Directors, I was pleased to co-chair this event with Joe,” said Diane Brewer. “We worked with more than 100 volunteers – from drivers who chauffeured authors during Novel Day for Students to panel moderators at LitLIVE! – and all of them made sure our authors and guests had a wonderful time. This event would not be possible without the generosity of our 36 dinner hosts, who underwrote dinners at their homes or restaurants for our guests.”
Sponsors included the Hyatt Regency Pier Sixty-Six, Comcast, Sun-Sentinel, AutoNation, Classical South Florida, H.I. Foundation, Inc., WPBT Channel 2, Albert E. and Birdie W. Einstein Fund, Inc., Bacardi, BankAtlantic, Barnes & Noble, Cellars Wine & Spirits Warehouse, John and Frances Flynn, Holland America Line, Richard Ingham, JM Family Enterprises, Inc., Joan Readding, Barbara Seegul and Ted Mozino and George and Helen Weaver.
The Broward Public Library Foundation was incorporated in 1982 to enhance the collections, programs and services of Broward County Library beyond the means of public funding. Since its formation, the Library Foundation has provided more than $17 million to the Library system. Today, it supports children’s and literacy programs at all of the 38 branches, computer instruction classes and non-tuition Library staff scholarships for those seeking their college and Master’s degrees.
For more information call (954) 357-7384 or email nrogers@bplfoundation.org
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