Una hora de cuentos de drag, co-auspiciada por el Centro Spahr, donde las familias con LGBTQ y los niños que preguntan en la escuela primaria y más jóvenes pueden reunirse, socializar y hacer nuevas amistades. Serviremos refrigerios de té ligero después de cada cuento. Vístete con un traje que te haga sentir especial.
¿Qué es la Hora de Cuentos de Drag?
La Hora de Cuentos de Drag es un programa divertido e importante que celebra la diversidad, la forma en que los niños pueden vestirse y actuar. Anima a los niños a mirar más allá de los estereotipos de género y a abrazar la exploración sin las trabas de sí mismos. Programas como La Hora de Cuentos de Drag fomentan la aceptación de la diferencia y ayudan a prevenir la intimidación, a la vez que proporcionan una experiencia literaria agradable.
La Hora de Cuentos de Drag (Drag Storytime en inglés) es exactamente lo que parece: personas vestidas de una manera que exagera el género y que leen cuentos a los niños. Esta lectura de cuentos captura la imaginación y el juego de la fluidez de género desde la niñez y les da a los niños modelos de rol glamurosos y positivos sobre las diferencias de género. En espacios como estos, los niños pueden ver a personas que desafían las rígidas restricciones de género e imaginan un mundo en el que la gente pueda presentarse como quiera y en el que el disfraz sea real.
This is part of a series of drag storytimes, co-hosted by the Spahr Center, where families with LGBTQ+ and questioning kids in elementary school and younger can meet, socialize, and make new friendships. We will serve light teatime refreshments after each storytime. Dress in an outfit that makes you feel special!
Each of us has a story wanting to be told and a rich store of memory waiting to be mined for it. Veteran writers seem to know exactly where to look, and how to shape the raw autobiographical material into art. We will draw on lessons from the masters for insights into crafting our own personal narratives. Jacqueline Kudler (M.A. English Literature) has been teaching Tales Told from Memory at the College of Marin for 31 years. She is a published poet and feature writer. In 2010, she was honored with the Outstanding Teacher Award from the College of Marin Emeritus Program.
To sign up, please email Lea at lea.aschkenas@cityofsanrafael.org or call 415-485-3336.
Like reading? Like learning about life in other places and times? We’ve got just the club for you! Join us for our Books Beyond Borders book club in which we’ll travel through time and place to better understand our present world. Each month, read the selected book (limited free copies available, otherwise check yours out at the library) and then we’ll meet to discuss it, sample some related food and maybe music, and do a fun related craft or writing activity. Occasional special guests will include the book’s author or a visitor from the culture or time we’ve read about.
In person outside the Pickleweed Library, weather and public health situations permitting.
September 14 — Miss Quinces, by Kat Fajardo (visitor from Honduras)
October 12 — Betty Before X, by Ilyasah Shabazz
November 9 — The Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna, by Alda Dobbs (virtual author visit)
To sign up, please email Lea at lea.aschkenas@cityofsanrafael.org or call 415-485-3336.
Like reading? Like learning about life in other places and times? We’ve got just the club for you! Join us for our Books Beyond Borders book club in which we’ll travel through time and place to better understand our present world. Each month, read the selected book (limited free copies available, otherwise check yours out at the library) and then we’ll meet to discuss it, sample some related food and maybe music, and do a fun related craft or writing activity. Occasional special guests will include the book’s author or a visitor from the culture or time we’ve read about.
In person outside the Pickleweed Library, weather and public health situations permitting.
To sign up, please email Lea at lea.aschkenas@cityofsanrafael.org or call 415-485-3336.
Like reading? Like learning about life in other places and times? We’ve got just the club for you! Join us for our Books Beyond Borders book club in which we’ll travel through time and place to better understand our present world. Each month, read the selected book (limited free copies available, otherwise check yours out at the library) and then we’ll meet to discuss it, sample some related food and maybe music, and do a fun related craft or writing activity. Occasional special guests will include the book’s author or a visitor from the culture or time we’ve read about.
In person outside the Pickleweed Library, weather and public health situations permitting.
November 9 — The Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna, by Alda Dobbs (virtual author visit)
To sign up, please email Lea at lea.aschkenas@cityofsanrafael.org or call 415-485-3336.
Like reading? Like learning about life in other places and times? We’ve got just the club for you! Join us for our Books Beyond Borders book club in which we’ll travel through time and place to better understand our present world. Each month, read the selected book (limited free copies available, otherwise check yours out at the library) and then we’ll meet to discuss it, sample some related food and maybe music, and do a fun related craft or writing activity. Occasional special guests will include the book’s author or a visitor from the culture or time we’ve read about.
In person outside the Pickleweed Library, weather and public health situations permitting.
October 12 — Betty Before X, by Ilyasah Shabazz
November 9 — The Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna, by Alda Dobbs (virtual author visit)
To sign up, please email Lea at lea.aschkenas@cityofsanrafael.org or call 415-485-3336.
Like reading? Like learning about life in other places and times? We’ve got just the club for you! Join us for our Books Beyond Borders book club in which we’ll travel through time and place to better understand our present world. Each month, read the selected book (limited free copies available, otherwise check yours out at the library) and then we’ll meet to discuss it, sample some related food and maybe music, and do a fun related craft or writing activity. Occasional special guests will include the book’s author or a visitor from the culture or time we’ve read about.
In person outside the Pickleweed Library, weather and public health situations permitting.
January 4—Borders, by Thomas King
February 1—The Other Half of Happy, by Rebecca Balcarcel
Interested in learning how to get your poems published, individually in journals and as book-length collections? Come and hear from a poet with experience on both sides of the publication equation. Francesca Bell has been avidly collecting rejections (and acceptances) for more than twenty years. She has served as the poetry editor of River Styx, a guest editor for B O D Y, and is a current translation editor for Los Angeles Review. She’ll share what she’s learned about the importance of researching your target publishers, how to format submissions, how to write a cover letter, how to choose which poems go together, how to interact with editors, and, most importantly, how to manage the inevitable disappointments along the way and use failure to your advantage. She will even share some of her voluminous submission logs so you can check out her vast rejection history firsthand.
