Community Family Event - East Asian Story Time
- Event Type
- Community Service
- Sponsor
- CEAPS; Urbana Free Library
- Location
- Urbana Free Library
- Date
- Mar 26, 2022 2:00 - 2:30 pm
- Speaker
- Kyoko Sawada
- Cost
- Free
- Registration
- Registration
- Contact
- Yu Chuan Shen
- ycshen2@illinois.edu
- Views
- 91
- Originating Calendar
- CEAPS Events Calendar
Bring your children to East Asian Story Time, and enjoy a Kamishibai telling of "The Bamboo Princess" (かぐや姫). The story tells the tale of a childless bamboo cutter who finds an infant in a stalk of bamboo.
A popular form of street theater in the 1930s and post-war Japan, Kamishibai (紙芝居) or “paper play” is a set of illustrated boards or cards that tell a story.
Can't make it in-person? Register in advance to watch the program live on Zoom.
Co-sponsored by The Urbana Free Library and the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies at the University of Illinois. You can attend in-person or by watching a live stream of the program on Zoom. Register in advance to receive a link to watch the program online.
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CEAPS and the Urbana Free Library worked together for a series of new monthly "East Asian Story Time" to provide family-friendly events for our local community to listen to the bilingual storytelling of a book in English and an East Asian language, including Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, etc., and raise awareness and identity for local Asian and Asian American families and communities.