Freedom to Read Week in February is an annual Canadian campaign (usually late Feb\/early March) promoting intellectual freedom and raising awareness about censorship, encouraging people to read challenged books and discuss the importance of free access to diverse ideas for a democratic society, with organizations hosting events like read-along and displays. It highlights that book challenges remain a concern, even in Canada, and emphasizes defending the right to read, write, and publish freely.<\/p>\n
Wed, Feb 25
\n11:30 am-2 pm
\nAbbotsford Library Atrium\/Rotunda (outside Library entrance doors)<\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.freedomtoread.ca\/freedom-to-read-week\/<\/a><\/p>\n For more information, contact Robert Baschak at robert.baschak@ufv.ca<\/a><\/p>\n 02\/24\/2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Freedom to Read Week in February is an annual Canadian campaign (usually late Feb\/early March) promoting intellectual freedom and raising awareness about censorship, encouraging people to read challenged books and discuss the importance of free access to diverse ideas for a democratic society, with organizations hosting events like read-along and displays. It highlights that book … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10,12,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event","category-myufv","category-calendar","category-ufv-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36774"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36784,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36774\/revisions\/36784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}