“One World, Many Stories” is this year’s theme for the 2011 summer reading program. Children will explore foreign places through stories, crafts, music, dance and other activities. The program is open to young people preschool through young adult, with weekly programs, prizes and story hours. Registration will begin Monday June 20th and continue throughout June. Programming will begin Tuesday, July 5th for seven weeks. Pre-registration is required.
Picture book readers and pre-readers who complete 14 pictures books will earn a World Traveler T-shirt. Children who read chapter books will earn a T-shirt when they complete 7 chapter books. Weekly book raffles, artists visits, performers and presenters are just some of the activities that are featured throughout the summer in this drop-in program that helps motivate kids to read for fun.
The Friends have arranged and funded a special kick-off event, Read to Achieve Magic Show by Tommy James, which was tentatively set to take place on Friday, July 1 in order to combine it with a PCL anniversary celebration.
In addition to the Friends Kick Off event, we will be hosting three other programs. They are:
Narragansett Stories of My Grandmothers (Children's Program)
WEDNESDAY JULY 27th at 3:00 PM
The program will include Native storytelling, oral history, music & dance focusing on the Narragansett People. There will be a variety of Native cultural items to share, opportunity for questions and answers as well as participation in program as appropriate. Also included is a short film, How Bird's Got Their Song, featured at the Providence Film Festival, which tells the story from the perspective of Native children, followed by discussion or reflections. Loren Spears is the director of the Tomaquag Indian Memorial Museum.
Michelle Bach-Coulibaly
Michelle Bach-Coulibaly is a performance artist, educator, and student of Mande culture. In 1989, Ms Bach-Coulibaly was part of a consortium of Brown University professors awarded a Mellon Grant to develop a new line of study on the Music, Dances and Cultures of West Africa and the Diaspora. Since that time, the Mande Dance, Music and Culture program at Brown has grown to include the building of the Yeredon Centre for Cultural Preservation and Social Engagement in Mali, five bi-annual festivals of Mande Performance Tradition, transnational collaborations on the intersection of Performance and Global Health, and the creation of over thirty original ballets for the concert stage, film, and in the street that serve educational advancement.
MOVING TO THE BEAT (Children's Program)
WEDNESDAT AUGUST 17th at 3:00 PM
West African Performance and Culture has deep resonances within the American experience. The teachings from West Africa inform our notions of what it means to be an American as well as a global citizen. In this workshop with young children, we will utilize these performance traditions to build an awareness of our own cultural traditions and how tradition plays an important role in our community. Songs will be taught that use call and response, word play, lessons in geography, and creative interplay. Dances will be taught that look at the power of participation, cooperation and creativity.
Moira Richardson Teen Program – JULY 12th at 7:00 PM
Art Journals Are Awesome
Using collage materials like recycled books, magazines, sheet music,
and road atlases, students will create a visual story of their lives.
Students will write, draw, and collage images that represent their
childhoods, favorite people, and their home or neighborhood. Each
student will leave with a handmade journal and a creativity kit to help
them continue art journaling at home.
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