Tag: storytelling

Storytelling & the Art of Jewelry Making

Join us on Facebook, @galluplibrary, and YouTube on Wednesday, May 5th at 1:00 p.m. for a storytelling presentation featuring Kristi Rae Wilson who received her MFA in Jewelry/Metals from the University of Illinois.

Her work has been included in international and national publications and exhibited throughout the United States. Wilson has taught fine art courses and
served as an advisor for the Art Student Collective at the University of New Mexico for 8 years.

Currently, she teaches Jewelry and Small Metals Construction, Drawing, and Introduction to Art History as a Visiting Assistant Professor.

Email aprice@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.

Workshop: Crocka Dog Draw Along

Join us on Facebook, @galluplibrary, and YouTube on Wednesday, May 4th at 1:00 p.m. for a drawing lesson with author and illustrator Ross Van Dusen.

Join us for a reading of Van Dusen’s award-winning children’s book How the Crocka Dog Came to Be and learn to draw your own Crocka Dog. Have your pencils and paper ready!

Email aprice@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.

Dial-A-Story – September 2020

Storytime anytime, call (505) 862-9177 to hear a story any time of the day or night! Stories will change daily, at the end feel free to leave us a message to let us know what stories you want to hear.

All Month of September

Email childlib@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.

Adult & Teen Summer Reading Bingo Card

Imagine Your Story this summer at OFPL! Adults and Teens can participate in Summer Reading by completing a Book Bingo card available on our website octaviafellin.libguides.com/srp2020. 

Win by completing a horizontal, vertical or diagonal line! Turn in your card and you’ll be entered into a weekly prize drawing – OR – complete all 25 squares (Blackout) for an even better prize!

Drop off your card inside our OFPL Book Drop or post a photo of your completed card to one of the Library’s social media channels using the hashtag, #OFPLBookBingo2020, Facebook, Instagram, & Twitter, @galluplibrary.

Entries must be received by 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, September 1st, 2020. Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call 505-863-1291 for more information.

Revitalizing Language Through Storytelling

Grassroots group aims to revitalize Diné Bizaad and encourage bilingualism through Shimá Storytelling.

Gallup Independent. November 15th, 2019. Christina Tsosie, Staff Writer.

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.

Newspaper article featured in Gallup Independent. Scanned 11.22.2019 by OFPL Staff member, Joshua Whitman.

Empowering Youth

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.”

Newspaper article featured in Gallup Independent. Scanned 11.22.2019 by OFPL Staff member, Joshua Whitman.

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.

Newspaper article featured in Gallup Independent. Scanned 11.22.2019 by OFPL Staff member, Joshua Whitman.

Shimá Storytelling

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.