{"id":4530,"date":"2026-10-06T13:01:38","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T13:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/banned-books-week-film-screening-and-panel-discussion-the-librarians-bpl-program-prosser-10-9-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T13:01:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T13:01:38","slug":"banned-books-week-film-screening-and-panel-discussion-the-librarians-bpl-program-prosser-10-9-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/banned-books-week-film-screening-and-panel-discussion-the-librarians-bpl-program-prosser-10-9-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned Books Week Film Screening and Panel Discussion: The Librarians (BPL Program @ Prosser 10\/9\/2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Event date:<\/strong> October 9, 2026 <br \/><strong>Event Time: <\/strong>05:30 PM &#8211; 07:30 PM<br \/><strong>Location:<\/strong> <br \/>1 Tunxis Ave.<br \/>Bloomfield, CT 06002-0337<br \/><strong>Description:<\/strong><br \/>It&#8217;s Banned Books Week, an annual awareness campaign that celebrates the freedom to read, spotlights censorship, and highlights challenged or banned books. The 2026 theme is: &#8220;Let Books Be. Protect the Freedom to Read.&#8221; We will watch the documentary film, The Librarians.<\/p>\n<p>Librarians emerge as first responders in the fight for democracy and our First Amendment Rights. As they well know, controlling the flow of ideas means control over communities.<\/p>\n<p>In Texas, the Krause List targets 850 books focused on race and LGBTQia+ stories \u2013 triggering sweeping book bans across the U.S. at an unprecedented rate. As tensions escalate, librarians connect the dots from heated school and library board meetings nationwide to lay bare the underpinnings of extremism fueling the censorship efforts. Despite facing harassment, threats, and laws aimed at criminalizing their work \u2013 the librarians\u2019 rallying cry for freedom to read is a chilling cautionary tale.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Event date: October 9, 2026 Event Time: 05:30 PM &#8211; 07:30 PMLocation: 1 Tunxis Ave.Bloomfield, CT 06002-0337Description:It&#8217;s Banned Books Week, an annual awareness campaign that celebrates the freedom to read, spotlights censorship, and highlights challenged or banned books. The 2026 &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Banned Books Week Film Screening and Panel Discussion: The Librarians (BPL Program @ Prosser 10\/9\/2026)\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/banned-books-week-film-screening-and-panel-discussion-the-librarians-bpl-program-prosser-10-9-2026\/#more-4530\" aria-label=\"Read more about Banned Books Week Film Screening and Panel Discussion: The Librarians (BPL Program @ Prosser 10\/9\/2026)\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}