Join us outside by the playground at Octavia Fellin Public Library Children’s Branch every Wednesday at 11:00 AM for bilingual animal songs and stories.
For the continued safety of our neighbors, we do recommend attendees continue social distancing and mask-wearing. We’re also offering a preschool activity book available at OFPL on a first-come, first-serve basis using the Supply Request Form at ofpl.online.
Join us outside by the playground at Octavia Fellin Public Library Children’s Branch every Wednesday at 11:00 a.m. for bilingual animal songs and stories.
We’re also offering a preschool activity book available at OFPL on a first-come, first-serve basis using the Supply Request Form.
Email childlib@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.
Join us on Facebook, @galluplibrary, and YouTube on Monday, May 17th at 6:00 p.m. for a presentation featuring New Mexico band Sunburnt Stone from Albuquerque, NM.
From the winds of the reservation to the pavement of Burque they bring to you their experience in life through music. Their presentation on From Voice to Vision will discuss their experience in bringing their music through Visual Storytelling by releasing their first album during the pandemic.
Email jwhitman@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.
Join us on Facebook, @galluplibrary or YouTube at Octavia Fellin Public Library every Wednesday at 11:00 a.m. to view episodes of OFPL’s Every Child Ready 2 Read series where we focus on the five practices of early literacy: talking, singing, reading, writing, and playing.
Premiere Dates:
● April 7th, 2021 – Rhyme and Repetition
● April 14th, 2021 – Informational Books
● April 21st, 2021 – Talking about Books
● April 28th, 2021 – Making it Fun!
Join us on Facebook @galluplibrary or YouTube at Octavia Fellin Public Library every Wednesday at 11:00 a.m. to view episodes of OFPL’s Every Child Ready 2 Read series where we focus on the five practices of early literacy: talking, singing, reading, writing, and playing.
Premiere Dates:
● March 3rd, 2021 – Sounds
● March 10th, 2021 – Letters
● March 17th, 2021 – Descriptions
● March 24th, 2021 – Questions and Conversations
● March 31st, 2021 – Concepts and Ideas
GALLUP – Shimá Storytelling began with Radmilla Cody briefly informing attendees in the audience that taking photos and recording songs and performances by the trio – comprised of Cody, Pauletta Chief-Lee, and Stefanie Littlehat – was forbidden.
Anne Price of the Octavia Fellin Public Library Children’s Branch and their staff invited Shimá storytelling as their guests for Native American Heritage Month and Native Language Programming Wednesday from 10:30 a.m. to 11 a.m..
Along with songs aimed at revitalizing Diné Bizaad, or the Navajo language, the group also hopes to promote awareness of consent. Continued after image.
Too often in this age – the age of social media – we forget that we need to ask permission to take photos or record sessions, said Cody, after all, it is their body, their choice.
“Not only do we want to empower youth by encouraging them to speak up against anyone attempting to capture their likeness or their actions, we also want to create a safe space for everyone so that they can be free to be themselves,” she said. “We’re very sensitive towards other people’s preferences – whatever those may be. This is something that we have done from the beginning.”
When Shimá Storytelling began their story in April, their goal was to bring their children together to socialize and play with one another while listening and speaking Navajo.
Join us at the Children’s Branch on Wednesday, November 13th at 10:30 a.m. for Shimá Storytelling. Shimá Storytelling is an active and engaging program for children of all ages featuring storytelling, singing, and activities in Diné Bizaad (Navajo language).
We are a team of Mothers who are actively involved in strengthening k’é through the revitalization of the Diné language beginning first at home with our little ones.
Email childlib@gallupnm.gov or call 505-726-6120 for more information.