Storytelling Festival!

Storytelling Festival is coming!!!!!!


The Storytelling Festival is a free event for Vance County’s fourth grade and fourth-grade-level students during the day, and a free Family Festival in the evening.

It will be held on Tuesday, April 27, in the H. Leslie Perry Memorial Library.
Part I, the Fourth-Grade Festival, is held at different sites around the library during school-day hours. Participating schools bus their fourth-graders to the Festival for an hour of educational, inspiring tales from some of the best storytellers in NC (and beyond).


Sites for the event in the library include the Storytime Kiva, the Meeting Room, the Terrace, and the Children’s Reading Area.



Session times are 9:30 a.m., 10:45 a.m., and 1:00 p.m and regional performers include Ranger Charles Shelton, Kenya Allen, Leigh Lambert, Alice Sallins, Vernita “Nana Vee” Terry, Robin Kitson, Claire Ramsey and Markey Duckworth.



Participating Schools with fourth grade or fourth grade level-students include: Aycock Elementary, Carver Elementary, Clark Street Elementary, Dabney Elementary, E. M. Rollins Elementary, E. O. Young Elementary, Eaton Johnson Middle School, Kerr Vance Academy, L. B. Yancey Elementary, New Hope Elementary, Northern Vance High School, Pinkston Street Elementary, Southern Vance High School, Vance Charter School, and Zeb Vance Elementary.


Part II, the Family Festival, welcomes the featured storytellers from the day festival to provide an evening’s entertainment from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. for Vance County’s families in Perry Library’s Meeting Room. Children of all ages are welcome; an age guideline would be ages 5 and up. Children under the age of 10 need a grown-up present.

For 2010, we’ll be welcoming returning storytellers Ron Jones 

and Terry Rollins

 , as well as bring Vance County the family ensemble The Healing Force

  

and the music and stories of Logie Meachum

as our Featured Performers. 

This free program is sponsored by the Vance County Arts Council, the North Carolina State Arts Council and the Friends of the Library.

Young @ ART

The April Young @ Art session explored the cycle of life, as kids made 2 art projects: a caterpillar and a butterfly!

Springtime at your Library!!!

Oh, Springtime is here and the Youth Services area has been busy as bees with all kinds of activities. 

Around the first of the month, we decorated Bunny Bags and had an EGG HUNT out on our terrace.

Wii PLAY @ THE LIBRARY!

Wii've been going crazy lately at the Library.  Join us for a game, but just a warning, these kids are SERIOUS!!!

Young @ ART

Mirror images were the name of the game as everyone gathered for March's Young @ ART program.  Participants stretched out on huge sheets of paper and traced each other.  Then, they used crayons, colored pencils and markers to draw their life-size self portraits.  Check them out in the Youth Services area where they are still on display!