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Our mo re than 500 stores hosted almost 50,000 community events last year, an average o f
more than 125 events every day. These range from craft nights and poetry readings to feng shui
seminars and game tournaments, a myriad o f children’s events and much, much more. Our boo k
discussion groups span the cultural spectrum — fiction, women’s studies, military history, cooking,
parenting, languages and hundreds mo re.
On weekends, thousands of children listen and talk to their favorite storyboo k characters. Winnie
the Pooh, Angelina Ballerina, Clifford the Big Red Dog, Madeline and the Berenstain Bears perform
in our stores and travel to visit readers young and o ld in hospitals, daycare centers and other
community institutio ns. Our boo ksellers take the Barnes & No ble boo k group experience to senior
centers, retirement homes and even to the wo rkplace.
Wo rking with our stores and their communities, Barnes & No ble’s sponsorship of First Book put
boo ks in the hands of 50,000 disadvantaged children in 1998. With our customers, we raised mo re
than $100,000 for Share Our Strength’s “ Writers Harvest,” a program o f author readings in our
stores across the country.
As a go od neighbor, we create pro grams with, and make donatio ns to, lo cal cultural organizations,
schools, libraries, and so cial service agencies. Fo r example, in Cincinnati, in honor of Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr. Day, our store and a local organization spo nsored the “ I Have A Dream” essay
contest for young peo ple between the ages of 15 and 30. During the year, 80 of our stores hosted
essay co ntests for children.
In Minneapolis, our support o f the Minnesota Children’s Theatre includes performances at our
stores to help sell tickets. In Baltimore, we helped fill the shelves of the library at the Cross Country
Elementary School. In Broo klyn, we created a book discussion group for nurses at New York
Methodist Hospital. And Barnes & No ble booksellers initiated the formation of more than 30 First
Book Advisory Boards in communities acro ss the co untry.
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