Groups are responsible for their own transportation. The daylong community service project draws individuals from the Triangle area who wish to devote themselves to service and celebrating community. The annual event, started in March 1998 by the Park Scholars and Student Government, and has united more than 1,750 student volunteers from the Raleigh area contributing more than 8,000 hours of community service. The registration deadline for the event is Friday, March 24. The main event will be a reading and book signing by the Cuban-American novelist Cristina Garcia, at 7 p.m. March 23 in 3712 Bostian Hall.
Admission is free.
Garcia, whose family fled Cuba in 1960, is a former Miami bureau chief for Time magazine. Her novels Dreaming in Cuban and The Aquero Sisters will be on sale after the reading. Other events include panel discussions, Andean music and films. Registration is from March 27 to 31 at room 117 of the 1911 Building. July 15-22 timeshare is for sale at the Ocean Villas Resort at Myrtle Beach.