The Patchwork Quilt: a Juneteenth Storytime presented by the Black Artist Collective

Program Type:

Featured, Online/Virtual, Community Engagement, Cultural Appreciation, Literature, Performing Arts

Age Group:

Babies/Toddlers, Preschoolers, Elementary School Age
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Event Details

The San Diego Black Artist Collective celebrates Black Freedom with a Juneteenth storytime series at the San Diego Public Library! Join engaging BAC storytellers reading some of your favorite children’s books. Today Rev. Alyce Smith-Cooper will be reading The Patchwork Quilt  by Valerie Flournoy and illustrated by Jerry Pinkney at the San Diego Central Library.  

No registration required. Tune into the SDPL Virtual Hub at 10am to watch!

Rev. Alyce Smith-Cooper, African-American ancestral storyteller, author and actor, provides healings, motivational and diversity training sessions. As an ancestral storyteller, she was widely recognized for creating cultural understandings in such wide ranging venues as the Old Globe Theatre, corporate and government classrooms (MCI, FBI), the Wild Animal Park, and the Bethel African-Methodist Episcopal Church.

**Special thanks to the volunteer film/sound crew: Zack King, Rich Soublet and Imahni King

Editor: Rich Soublet

Produced by: Kimberly King with support from the Friends of the San Diego Public Library

See you there!

 

 

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