The Right to Read: Free Movie and Discussion

The Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque and Carnegie-Stout Public Library are partnering during National Reading Month to show the documentary film The Right to Read on Thursday, March 21, 2024 at 6:00 p.m. in the Aigler Auditorium on the Library's 3rd Floor.

The 2023 documentary film The Right to Read follows an activist, a teacher, and two families as they fight overwhelming trends in low reading proficiency, an urgent civil rights issue. Reading Rainbow's LeVar Burton is one of the movie's executive producers, and the director Jenny McKenzie has made films like Kick Like a Girl and the Emmy-winning Quiet Heroes.

The film screening is free and open to the public. The movie is 70-minutes long, and is not rated. A discussion about the national trend of low reading proficiency will follow the screening. For more information, please call the Library at 563-589-4225 or visit us on Facebook.