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Highline Reads

Highline Storytime

The Highline College Library​ warmly invites you to our read-aloud, series for adults: Highline Reads

Recurring event link: https://tinyurl.com/HighlineReads

Tune into these zoom live/recorded sessions as faculty, staff, and community guests read-a-loud works of nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and share media across engaging topics for the adult set. Stay for the optional, short discussions after each reading. This is open to the public, invite your people! Questions? Interested in reading at a future Highline Reads? Contact your friendly Highline librarians at refhelp@highline.edu 

Winter 2021 Readings

Highline Reads/Storytimes Current Schedule: Spring 2021

Date & Time

Readers

Event

Theme

Wednesday, April 7 @ 2pm Susan Rich and Arcturus Writers Highline Reads: Arcturus Literary Magazine National Poetry Month - April
Thursday, April 22 @ 12noon Aleyda Cervantes  (Spanish bilingual!) Highline Reads: Open veins of Latin America : five centuries of the pillage of a continent by Eduardo Galeano  
Monday, May 10 @ 2pm collaboration with AANAPISI Highline Storytime: Eyes that Kiss in the Corners by Joanna Ho and Illustrator: Dung Ho Asian Pacific Islander Desi American Heritage Month

Tues 5/18,   @ 12noon

Fawzi Belal, Sam Oussama, and Arabic Club student readers

Highline Storytime:Arabian Nights (Open access ebook via Project Gutenberg)/ Arabian Nights Vol. 1 (via KCLS)For youth: Tales from the Arabian Nights (via KCLS) by Donna Jo Napoli

 

Thurs, May 27 @10:30 am

Amy Rider and Chino Gonzales

Highline Storytime/Reads: From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea by Kai Cheng Thom + Trans Kids : Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century (ebookby Tey Meadow, also available in print version. 

LGBTQ+ PRIDE Month - June
Wed, June 9 @ AANAPISI students Highline StorytimeNo ka ʻelepaio kolohe = The naughty ʻelepaio / Naughty ʻelepaio. Hawaiian & English by Malia Kruger and Eve Furchgott, illustrator  

 

Spring 2021 Readings

arcturus 2020 mag cover. a brown girl with an orang dress stands in a colorful doorway, hands on the doorframe, while standing on a wavy carpet, outside is a chair and endless blue sky with clouds

Arcturus (link here): "a literary magazine of artwork, poetry, and prose by students and alumni of Highline College." 2020 cover art by Dahli Strayer

KCLS and Highline College Synched Accounts

Did you know as a Highline student/staff we already have quick KCLS public library access?

Many of our books and more can be found in print, ebook, and audiobook formats through your KCLS public library neighborhood branches. Click the KCLS logo above for more information on the Highline-KCLS partnership.

Or-- Click the links below to use your quick Highline-KCLS login: