Join Lauren Groff, The Lynx team, and community partners for a night of celebration, anticipation, and community-building as we fundraise for the THIRD annual Gainesville Reads! This event is come-and-go to support as you can, with programming from Lauren Groff scheduled to start at 6 p.m. We will be announcing our Gainesville Reads calendar and partners, as well as our (very!) special keynote speaker, at this event.

For a suggested donation of $10, you'll receive a wristband good for $1 off pours from the bar all evening long. All proceeds go directly to The Lynx Watch, Inc., in support of providing accessible programming during our month of Gainesville Reads.

Live Music from: Thomas Allain

Food Truck: Vegan Gator

Community partners joining us at this event include:

• Working Food/The Giving Garden
• The Center for Humanities in the Public Sphere
• Prairie Creek Conservation Cemetary
• Alachua Conservation Trust
• Florida Springs Council

Gainesville Reads is The Lynx's Bookstore's annual month-long reading festival, centering the community around a selected text and featuring a visit from that book's author at the end of the month. Our festival will be held throughout the month of October this year and we can't wait to share our VERY exciting keynote speaker with you - to be announced at this event!