The Big Read Finale 2016

The Big Read Finale: “Our Towns”
See Home Grown Student Films, a Wallowa County Time Capsule, and enjoy a Potluck Dinner.
The Big Read Finale is Sunday, February 28 at the Cloverleaf Hall in Enterprise. This festive event features short films made by Wallowa County students, a Wallowa County digital time capsule, and a potluck dinner with main dish provide by Fishtrap.
This winter Wallowa County students have been hard at work creating short films using their creative minds with words and images, music and animation. Fishtrap’s Cameron Scott and teachers from around the county have encouraged students to tell their stories and express themselves using iPads provided by the Fishtrap Story Lab program. Cameron Scott remarked, “It has been awesome these past few months working with students from Joseph, Enterprise, Wallowa, and the Alt-Ed program. Every time they sit down and tell a story with paper and pen, with photography, or animation, I learn something new. "Our Town" is full of amazing students.”
This film screening is all part of The Big Read Finale. In addition, audience members will have a chance to share their family stories and histories while contributing to a Wallowa County Digital Time Capsule. The event starts with a potluck dinner with a main dish provided by Fishtrap. This event is the culmination of two months of Big Read events celebrating the works of Thornton Wilder.
Wilder is the only writer to have won Pulitzer Prizes for both fiction and drama. His novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927) and stage drama Our Town (1938) have enjoyed enormous success since the moment they first appeared. This novel and play are not only American classics but classics of world literature as well. Whether you are rediscovering Wilder’s work or entering his world for the first time, you are joining thousands of his readers in exploring the fundamental meaning of human existence.
For ten years, Fishtrap has hosted The Big Read in Wallowa County. The program offers residents an opportunity to get out of the house during the winter months and attend fun and educational community events that promote reading, literature, and great stories. Thanks to support from the National Endowment for the Arts, local sponsorships, and many individual donations, Fishtrap will provide free books to schools, libraries, and the general public.

The Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts, designed to revitalize the role of literature in American culture and to encourage citizens to read for pleasure and enlightenment, Fishtrap is one of 77 not-for-profit organizations to receive a grant to host a Big Read project between September 2015 and June 2016. The NEA presents The Big Read in partnership with Arts Midwest.