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Library Play
A Staged Reading by Dr. Austin Dean Ashford
2025-11-15 11:00:00
2025-11-15 12:30:00
America/Indiana/Indianapolis
Library Play
Library Play is a dynamic one-person performance that fuses spoken word, theatre, and Afrofuturism to explore the role libraries (and librarians) play in safeguarding stories, preserving culture, and shaping futures.
Michigan Road Branch -
Saturday, November 15
11:00am - 12:30pm
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2025-11-15 11:00:00
2025-11-15 12:30:00
America/Indiana/Indianapolis
Library Play
Library Play is a dynamic one-person performance that fuses spoken word, theatre, and Afrofuturism to explore the role libraries (and librarians) play in safeguarding stories, preserving culture, and shaping futures.
Michigan Road Branch -
Library Play is a dynamic one-person performance that fuses spoken word, theatre, and Afrofuturism to explore the role libraries (and librarians) play in safeguarding stories, preserving culture, and shaping futures.
Set in a near future where books are outlawed, the play centers on a lone storyteller determined to preserve Black history through oral tradition. Join Dr. Austin Dean Ashford, Artistic Director of Flanner House, for a staged reading of his original play.
Michigan Road Branch
Hours
About the branch
The 20,000-square-foot Michigan Road Branch provides greater access to Library services and collections, engaging spaces for children, teens and adults, more computers, and a large community room. The branch opened in December 2018.