Prose for Cons is a drive to help prison libraries and prison education programs around the US, starting with pilot programs in Virginia and Indiana.
May 1, 2005 (Press Release) --
FALLS CHURCH, Virginia – Prose for Cons is a drive to help prison libraries and prison education programs around the US, starting with pilot programs in Virginia and Indiana.
Prose for Cons is the latest project of the smash hit literacy effort Adopt A Library.org. Created by classical soloist Lynn Gaubatz in 2002, Adopt A Library.org is an Internet clearinghouse of groups that help libraries, prisons, Native American reservations, and schools around the world by encouraging and facilitating the donation of books and materials.
Lynn has achieved unique success with Adopt A Library.org by combining her literacy advocacy with an appeal for donors to recycle books by donating them to those who can use them. “It’s amazing the number of people excited about this concept! I’ve been contacted by everybody from individuals to school systems upgrading their textbooks who want to avoid sending usable books to landfills.”
Each year, 52 million tons - roughly half of the paper used annually in the US - ends up in landfills, including millions of tons of usable books. The inclusion of ecologists/recyclers through Adopt A Library.org has opened up a new line of donors for libraries worldwide and kept thousands of pounds of usable books out of landfills.
Woman’s World magazine and hundreds of newspapers throughout the US, from an editorial in Bigfork, Montana to “Hints from Heloise”, have featured Adopt A Library.org, which has had over 200,000 visitors who have donated many thousands of books (and not a few dollars!).
Adopt A Library.org does not ask for or accept donations - all donations offered go directly to libraries and schools, or organizations which aid them.
Prose for Cons is beginning with drives to enrich the Virginia Department of Correctional Education Agency libraries and the Indiana Correctional Libraries Read-To-Me Program.
For more information about these programs and how to donate, please go to
http://www.proseforcons.org
Prose for Cons founder, Lynn Gaubatz, is recognized as one of today's most brilliant classical soloists. Named "One of America's Ten Most Outstanding Young Working Women" by GLAMOUR Magazine, she has soloed on four continents - North and South America, Europe and Africa - including virtuoso solo performances in Vienna, Salzburg, New York, Boston, Chicago, Seville, Málaga, Caracas, and Washington. She has performed at music festivals around the world, including Aspen, Tanglewood and Wolf Trap, where she played the bassoon on stage in costume in Mozart's Don Giovanni.
Lynn's performances have been broadcast worldwide on radio and TV by The Voice of America, CBS, PBS, Radio Nacional de España, and Radio Nacional de Venezuela, and several of her solo recitals from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC have been broadcast worldwide via the Internet. She's the only bassoonist ever featured by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC on their lectures Art of the Virtuosi and The Concert Experience.
Lynn taught at the world-renowned Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria for several years, and has given master classes in Salzburg, Vienna, Boston, Chicago, Washington, Seville, Málaga, Caracas, Madison, Albuquerque and Santa Fe.
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Prose for Cons is the latest project of the smash hit literacy effort Adopt A Library.org. Created by classical soloist Lynn Gaubatz in 2002, Adopt A Library.org is an Internet clearinghouse of groups that help libraries, prisons, Native American reservations, and schools around the world by encouraging and facilitating the donation of books and materials.
Lynn has achieved unique success with Adopt A Library.org by combining her literacy advocacy with an appeal for donors to recycle books by donating them to those who can use them. “It’s amazing the number of people excited about this concept! I’ve been contacted by everybody from individuals to school systems upgrading their textbooks who want to avoid sending usable books to landfills.”
Each year, 52 million tons - roughly half of the paper used annually in the US - ends up in landfills, including millions of tons of usable books. The inclusion of ecologists/recyclers through Adopt A Library.org has opened up a new line of donors for libraries worldwide and kept thousands of pounds of usable books out of landfills.
Woman’s World magazine and hundreds of newspapers throughout the US, from an editorial in Bigfork, Montana to “Hints from Heloise”, have featured Adopt A Library.org, which has had over 200,000 visitors who have donated many thousands of books (and not a few dollars!).
Adopt A Library.org does not ask for or accept donations - all donations offered go directly to libraries and schools, or organizations which aid them.
Prose for Cons is beginning with drives to enrich the Virginia Department of Correctional Education Agency libraries and the Indiana Correctional Libraries Read-To-Me Program.
For more information about these programs and how to donate, please go to
http://www.proseforcons.org
Prose for Cons founder, Lynn Gaubatz, is recognized as one of today's most brilliant classical soloists. Named "One of America's Ten Most Outstanding Young Working Women" by GLAMOUR Magazine, she has soloed on four continents - North and South America, Europe and Africa - including virtuoso solo performances in Vienna, Salzburg, New York, Boston, Chicago, Seville, Málaga, Caracas, and Washington. She has performed at music festivals around the world, including Aspen, Tanglewood and Wolf Trap, where she played the bassoon on stage in costume in Mozart's Don Giovanni.
Lynn's performances have been broadcast worldwide on radio and TV by The Voice of America, CBS, PBS, Radio Nacional de España, and Radio Nacional de Venezuela, and several of her solo recitals from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC have been broadcast worldwide via the Internet. She's the only bassoonist ever featured by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC on their lectures Art of the Virtuosi and The Concert Experience.
Lynn taught at the world-renowned Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria for several years, and has given master classes in Salzburg, Vienna, Boston, Chicago, Washington, Seville, Málaga, Caracas, Madison, Albuquerque and Santa Fe.
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