1^st Annual CBW Public Square Book Swap
Public Square, Downtown Cleveland – 2:30-7 p.m.

FREE EVENT – Registration not required

Entertainment Highlights:

3 p.m. & 6 p.m. – Cleveland Association of Black Storytellers share story performances

4 p.m. – The Distinguished Gentlemen of Spoken Word performance

*The first 500 people who present their library card on the Plaza will receive a free scoop of Mitchell’s Ice Cream.

Gather on Cleveland Foundation Centennial Plaza in Public Square for a book swap and afternoon of entertainment in honor of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards and the inaugural Cleveland Book Week. Bring a book or find one there, then mingle with other readers and swap books! Books for youth and adults will be available for free from the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards and the Kids Book Bank until quantities run out. Throughout the Swap, connect with local reading and literacy-focused nonprofit organizations, and peruse your new book while enjoying live music from theRoots of American Music and Cleveland Foundation Uptown Saturday Nights Festival artists SpYder Stompers and Sugar Pie and Eric Seddon’s Hot Club.

Mitchell’s Ice Cream will be on the plaza to give away free scoops to the first 500 people who present their library card. If attendees don’t have a library card, Cleveland Public Library andCuyahoga County Public Library will be registering for new cards on-site. In case of inclement weather, the event will be held on Tuesday, September 13.  

https://www.clevelandfoundation.org/news_items/book-week/