Literary Lunch with National Association of Black Storytellers
Portland Public Library and Lewiston Public Library are honored to be co-hosting an event with the National Association of Black Storytellers Adopt-A-Teller program. On Tuesday, December 21 at noon we’ll host Karen “Queen Nur” Abdul-Malik at the Literary Lunch series.
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In the story, Queen Nur will talk about her love of libraries when she was growing up and will include interactive storytelling celebration that engages social emotional learning competencies. Using children’s folktales found in storybooks, original songs and chants, the audiences participates in call and response stories that impart self-awareness, social awareness, building of relationship skills, responsible decision making and self management. Audiences walk away rhythmically singing, “I take my time and think about it.”