Banned Books Week - September 27-October 3, 2020

The Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library (KVML) will once again celebrate the American Library Association’s Banned Books Week​ September 27 – October 23. This year’s planned events will include virtual and in-person events at KVML’s new “forever home” located downtown on the historic Indiana Avenue. In addition to the events, our museum with open for scheduled small-group tours from 10 am to 5pm daily during this week. To schedule a time slot, visit vonnegutlibrary.org.

Banned Books Week​ is the annual national celebration of the freedom to read, which raises awareness about censorship and freedom of expression and each year KVML dedicates a week of activities to enlighten, entertain and educate. As a main programming element, we invite an artist, educator, or other passionate visitor to become our Banned Books Week activist to live in the museum behind a wall of real banned books in protest of the infringement of the right to free expression. This year’s theme is Civic Engagement and we are honored to have Indianapolis poet Manon Voice as “activist in residence” to engage with our Banned Books Week visitors.