Events for October 31, 2018 › Complete Reading

OCT. 29-31 FRANKENREADS READATHON IN GREAT HALL, O’SHAUGHNESSY HALL, UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME, NOTRE DAME, IN, USA, 12-1:30PM.  Refreshments served. http://sites.nd.edu/operation-frankenstein/

During the week of Halloween, October 29 through November 2, members of the Corning Community College community will join together to read Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, the selection for this year's "One Book, One College" program. From 11:15 AM to 2:00 PM, students, faculty, staff, and other members of our community will read short (2 to 4 page) sections from the novel aloud in the front lobby of the Commons until we complete the entire book! USE THIS FORM sign up to read specific portions of the book on specific days. The volumes, chapters, letters,

In honor of the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, we'll be performing a live, collaborative reading of the novel on Halloween. The event is free and open to the public. Come and go as you please throughout the day. To sign up to read a section (or sections) of the novel, visit the sign-up sheet here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0d45aaaa29aafe3-frankenreads

Reading begins at 9 am. The finale at 6pm features a celebration with FrankenTerps ice cream (courtesy of the Dairy at UMD), a costume contest, and awarding prizes for the short story competition.

Guests from across campus will read the Mary Shelley's Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus aloud.

A complete reading of Mary Shelley's novel open to students, staff, and other eager enthusiasts, who would wish to join the commemoration of the bicentenary of the novel's publication.

As part of the international celebration of the 200th birthday of Frankenstein, Ohio University's Technology and Society Certificate Program, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, and Alden Library are sponsoring a marathon live reading of the entire novel, to take place from 9:00 am – 9:00 pm Wednesday, Oct. 31 on Alden Library’s 4th floor.  62 Ohio University students, faculty, and staff will take it in turn to read Frankenstein aloud, and refreshments will be provided throughout the day.  The event is free and open to the public. Costumes encouraged!  

A reading of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, 200 years after its first publication. Drop into the Bodleian Libraries Weston Library, Blackwell Hall, where there will also be a display of Mary Shelley's manuscript. 12:00noon – 1:00pm: Screening of film ‘Masterclass: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein’ featuring Richard Ovenden, Bodley’s Librarian, and Miranda Seymour, biographer of Mary Shelley in the lecture theatre 1:00pm – 5:00pm – livestreaming of reading of Frankenstein from Library of Congress on Heritage screen in Blackwell Hall 1:00 pm – 5:00pm – Oxford University English Faculty continuous reading of abridged version of Frankenstein in the Treasury Gallery. All welcome. No

Western University students and faculty read all of the 1818 Frankenstein aloud.  One break will include music from an original opera, "The Maker", based on the Frankenstein story and co-written by Aaron Joseph Lee and Monika Lee. There is free parking at Brescia University College and the event will be held in the Oak Room, Ursuline Hall from 3 p.m. until late.