The City of West Hollywood through its Arts and Cultural Affairs Commission is pleased to announce their first ever WeHo Reads, modeled after the National Endowment for the Arts successful The Big Read program. This October, the City of West Hollywood will once again embrace a community-wide celebration of reading and expanding literacy through the arts. Throughout the month, a series of special events, panels, and book discussions will revolve around this year’s featured book, Nina Revoyr’s The Age of Dreaming. The book explores the history of Los Angeles, the heady beginnings of the movie industry, and the interplay of race and celebrity. It is part historical novel, part mystery, and part story of unfulfilled love, all told through the voice of a forgotten star who must gradually come to terms with his past.

The events and discussions will reach out to a wide spectrum of the West Hollywood community and we invite all residents to join us in this literary venture. Many of the WeHo Reads events will be at the beautiful West Hollywood Library.

The full schedule of WeHo Reads activities will be available in August. For more information about WeHo Reads, please call (323) 848-6883 or visit www.weho.org/arts  For the deaf and hard of hearing, please call (323) 848-6496.