Elkhart Education Foundation Presents An Evening with Author Adriana Trigiani

Celebrate a night of literacy with the Elkhart Education Foundation and very special guest New York Times Best Selling Author, Adriana Trigiani on July 10th at the Wellfield Botanical Gardens. Guests of the unique author and auction event will enjoy dinner, music, silent auction and a keynote presentation by Adriana Trigiani on her new book Kiss Carlo, all under a canopy at the beautiful Wellfield Botanical Gardens. Each guest at the event will receive a signed copy of the new book. Event chairwomen are Lora Minichillo and Babette Boling.

Adriana Trigiani, an alumna of St. Mary's College, has written 17 books. Her books, most New York Times best sellers, include the Big Stone Gap series (the first of which was released in 2014 as a major motion picture), All the Stars in the Heavens, The Shoemaker’s Wife, the Valentine trilogy, and even an Italian cookbook, Cooking With My Sisters. In fact, USA TODAY calls Adriana one of “the reigning queens of women’s fiction.” Kiss Carlo was released nationally on June 21st, and Elkhart, Indiana is one of her first stops on her national book tour. Her newest novel Kiss Carlo is the story of an Italian-American family on the cusp of change.

An Evening with Author Adriana Trigiani

Benefits Elkhart Education Foundation’s Living Libiaries Project

July 10th

6-9 PM

Wellfield Botanical Gardens, 1011 N Main St, Elkhart, IN 46514

Tickets: $60 per person, reserve at www.ElkhartEdFoundation.org/LivingLibraries

The nonprofit, the Elkhart Education Foundation, works to bridge the gap in funding for Elkhart Community Schools. The nonprofit receives funds by private donors, grants and fundraising. The Living Libraries Project will impact 7,225 elementary school students in the district, 70% of whom are classified as low-income. The nonprofit sees the need for the public school district libraries to reinvent themselves. As content becomes more accessible online, the role of the library should become less about housing tomes, and more about connecting learnings and constructing knowledge. With this transition, not only will the way in which students consume content change, but also how they utilize library space. Rather than maintain a strictly quiet location for individual study, today’s libraries need to create environments for collaboration and interactive learning.

For more information or to reserve your ticket, visit www.ElkhartEdFoundation.org/LivingLibraries or for questions please call 574-607-3725. The event is sponsored by the Elkhart Education Foundation and Wellfield Botanical Gardens.

About the Elkhart Education Foundation

The Elkhart Education Foundation was founded in 2014 and has distributed more than $200,000 back into the Elkhart schools since then impacting more than 10,000 students. The Elkhart Education Foundation ignites the power of community, connects generous hearts with education, and provides the resources needed for EVERY child to excel inside and outside of the classroom through extraordinary learning experiences. They award grants for innovative teaching projects, extra-curricular activities and character building special programs to the teachers and students of Elkhart Community Schools. For more information, please visit www.OneCityOneMission.org . #OneCityOneMission