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authorpetrus comestor <petrus@comestor.org>2024-08-24 00:40:27 -0400
committerpetrus comestor <petrus@comestor.org>2024-08-24 00:40:27 -0400
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<br>
<p style="max-width: 40ch; text-align: center; margin: 0 auto; font-size: large;">
<strong>Quiet reading belongs to you.</strong><br>
- Start your own quiet reading today!
</p>
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<div class="event">
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+ At quiet reading events, readers bring their own books, read for one hour,
+ and then chat for one hour about books, literature, and arts. Start
+ your own independently-operated quiet reading today!
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <br>
+ <div class="event">
+ <div>
<span class="event-time">1. Audience</span><br>
If you&rsquo;re an individual, invite your friends, family, or classmates.
<br>
<br>
If you run an event space, invite your regulars and local community.
+ <br>
+ <br>
+ Quiet reading events generally do not require advance registration.
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<span class="event-time">3. Time</span><br>
- Quiet reading can happen at any time: mornings in the park, weekend afternoons, evenings after work, or late-night at home or at a bar.
- <br>
- <br>
- Quiet reading builds community best when run as a weekly event: same place, same time each week.
+ Quiet reading can happen at mornings, afternoons, evenings, or nights. Weekly events are perfect for building community.
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<span class="event-time">4. Promotion</span><br>
- Text, Instagram, flyers, venue website, local subreddit, and so on.
- <br>
- <br>
- If you run a space like a library, park, cafe, or bar, we can help advertise your event: please contact <a href="mailto:team@quietreading.org">team@quietreading.org</a>.
- However, we do not run your event and we do not have &ldquo;chapters&rdquo;; we simply maintain a directory listing of events.
+ Text, social media, flyers, venue website, local subreddit, and so on.
+ <br><br>
+ If you run a public space like a library, park, cafe, or bar, we can help advertise your independent event: contact team@quietreading.org.
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<span class="event-time">5. Host</span><br>
- Quiet reading is designed to be a casual community event.
- The host only needs to announce the beginnings of the
- reading hour and the social hour. In fact, there doesn't
- even need to be a host.
+ Quiet reading is designed to be a casual community meetup. There’s no need for a host: readers arrive, read, and then chat by themselves.
<br>
<br>
Happy reading!