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A Message from the Co-Directors: It’s All About Community

It's all about community.

Here is what we know:

  • Communities are built on the strength of shared passions
  • Communities become dynamic as their shared passions are approached from a variety of perspectives
  • Learning—whether we’re confronting new phenomena or deepening our knowledge of familiar subjects—catalyzes passion and diversity
  • Learning and socializing are the only two things that are guaranteed to stimulate the production of new brain cells
  • Pages & Places is an all-volunteer, non-profit organization dedicated to leveraging literature, literacy, learning and socializing toward an ever richer, ever more diverse, ever more passionate community of Scrantonians

It in this spirit that we launch our newest endeavor, Pages & Places @ Anthology, this Friday evening, First Friday May 6th—and we invite you to drop by and see what we’re up to.

P&P@A provides us with an opportunity foster learning, discussion, and collaborative programming that features a great range of fascinating subjects all year long, as well as a (freshly painted) venue for these programs.

We’ll keep you updated often (too often for some tastes, we’re sure) on all the goings on.  But the details aside, we hope you’ll be excited about at two things:

First, to come by, indulge in a beer or a coffee of a glass of wine, get to know the vibrant cultural institutions that will present each month, and engage Scranton’s growing community of diverse and passionate learners;

And that you’ll make a habit of buying your books and DVDs and anything else you typically rely on Amazon to provide through our website.  A portion of every purchase goes to underwrite the Pages & Places Book Festival and/or other vital nonprofit contributors to our community.

Here’s one other thing we know:

  • We can make Scranton whatever we want it to be.

So what do you say?   Are you passionate enough?  Shall we get to work?

Sincerely,

Bill Black

Liz Randol

Co-Directors