SUNDAY, OCT 12, 3:30PM.  At St Mary’s Episcopal Church, 347 Davis Ave (at Castleton Avenue), SINY 10310   (Originally planned for Sept 21, now rescheduled for Sunday, Oct 12)

A spoken word performance with music and dance, plus an old-fashioned lemonade social, part of Staten Island OutLOUD’s Autumn 2014 series for the National Endowment for the Arts/The Big Read, featuring Harper Lee’s classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird.  Weather permitting, our performance will begin in the shady church courtyard, and will progress across the lawn and inside the church.  (If it rains, our entire performance will take place inside the church.)

Music by Allergic to B’s, featuring Joan & Gary Moore.  We’ll feature a dance performance by Melissa West & Rosita Roldan, with musical accompaniment by Tom Bones.  Choreography by Melissa West.

Our cast of neighbors will include Virginia Allen, Phoebe Blue, James Hill, Nan Smith, Joseph Smith, and others TBA.  They’ll  introduce Scout, Jem and Atticus Finch, their beloved caregiver Calpurnia, their mysterious neighbor Boo Radley, and the people of Maycomb, Alabama in the summer of 1932, when the story begins. You’ll hear more about Harper Lee’s life and work.  Some neighbors will share short readings from the novel and from other related work.  You’ll hear about the fearsome Radley house, and about some of Maycomb’s less congenial citizens.

You’ll hear about something that changed their lives.