Participate
Throughout the year, The Literacy Council holds events that raise money for literacy while generating awareness of literacy issues throughout the community. Join us this year for one or more of the following special events:
Signature Series
The Signature Series annually brings three prominent authors to some of Birmingham’s most beautiful homes for private cocktail receptions. Patrons spend the evening with one of America’s most fascinating authors and receive a signed first edition of the author’s latest work. The name of the featured author and the date of the event are confirmed approximately two months before each party.
Past authors include: Cokie Roberts, Kathryn Stockett, Kim Sunée, Richard North Patterson, Rick Bragg, Delta Burke, Shelley Stewart, Dixie Carter, Mark Childress, Charlton Heston, Howell Raines, and Tracy Chevalier.
The Literacy Council’s first Signature Series event of 2010 will feature author Olga Grushin on Thursday, April 22nd at 6:30 p.m. The venue will be a private residence.
Olga Grushin is the author of the novels The
Line (forthcoming, April 2010) and The
Dream Life of Sukhanov (2006), as
well as short stories, literary criticism, essays,
and other works. She was awarded the 2007 New York
Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award and named
one of the Best
Young American Novelists by Granta magazine.
Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The
New York Times, Granta, The Guardian, Partisan Review,
Vogue, and other publications.
You can purchase a 2010 subscription to the Signature Series—three events, each showcasing a different author—on-line at or call (205) 326-1925 or 1-888-448-7323. Tickets to all three events are $600 per couple or $350 per individual. Tickets are $125 per individual for the Olga Grushin event alone. Guests will receive a signed, hardbound copy of The Line. Signature Series subscriptions are limited in order to preserve the intimacy of each reception. Proceeds benefit The Literacy Council, a non-profit organization dedicated to strengthening and supporting organizations that provide literacy services in central Alabama.
The Literacy Summit
The Literacy Summit recognizes and honors literacy providers, volunteers, and tutors who have made significant contributions to improving literacy.
The Summit also gets our business community involved, with some of the largest companies in the 5-county area attending to support The Literacy Council and see the direction in which we are headed.
The Literacy Summit is an annual event, open to all members of the community who have a stake in battling illiteracy in Central Alabama.
Download the 2009 Summit program.
The Historic Footnotes Loft Tour
The 11th annual Literacy Council Loft Tour will be in the Spring of 2010 and will feature numerous residential and commercial lofts in Downtown's Loft District. During the Loft Tour, visitors take a self-guided walking tour of spaces from the elegant to the eclectic in Birmingham’s historic Loft Districts.
More than 400 people annually attend this successful event, which raises money to support The Literacy Council’s efforts in reducing illiteracy.
Scrabble Tournaments
The Literacy Council holds Scrabble Tournaments every other month at The Wine Loft downtown.
Scrabble Tournaments are hosted by the Friends of Literacy, a young patrons group of The Literacy Council.
The group works to raise money for literacy, recruit volunteers, and build the next generation of leaders
for our organization.
For the date and time of our next Scrabble Tournament, visit our facebook page at www.causes.com/literacycouncil. For more information on Friends of Literacy events, contact The Literacy Council at 205-326-1925.