LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – The Big Read, a National Endowment for the Arts Program, in partnership with Arts Midwest, proceeds into another programming week with the final weekend program featuring local authors and young talent.

Prior to the weekend, young adults can participate in a book discussion and activity on Tuesday afternoon at the Harbor on Main in Lower Lake.

The Lower Lake Schoolhouse Museum will feature its final film screening by showing the acclaimed Chinese language movie (with subtitles), “Raise the Red Lantern,” on Thursday at 6 p.m. Admission is free. Lower Lake and Carlé High School students may receive extra credit for their attendance.

This Saturday, local author Alethea Eason will facilitate a free writing workshop at the Middletown library, beginning at 10 a.m. Participants will emerge from the session with a fiction piece that explores a “ghost” from their past, opening the door to a tale that is waiting to be told.

For information, contact Eason, author of "Heron’s Path" and "Hungry" at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or phone her at 707-355-0553.

On Sunday, the Friends of Mendocino College will host local author and past Lake County poet laureate Carolyn Wing Greelee at 3 p.m. in the campus Round Room on the Lake Campus. Greenlee will discuss the power of books to change lives in her presentation, “Lalu, Joy Luck, and Growing up Chinese in America – making peace with who you are, the power of story.”

The Big Read is designed to restore reading to the center of American culture.

Lake County is one of 77 communities across the country to receive a 2013-14 Big Read grant award.

For more information, visit the www.NEABigRead.org Web site or contact program director for the Lake County Big Read, Robin Fogel-Shrive, at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .