Community Family Event - East Asian Story Time
- Event Type
- Community Service
- Sponsor
- CEAPS; Urbana Free Library
- Location
- Urbana Free Library (210 W Green St, Urbana, IL 61801)
- Virtual
- Join online
- Date
- Jul 23, 2022 2:00 - 2:30 pm
- Speaker
- Kyoko Sawada
- Cost
- Free
- Registration
- Registration
- Contact
- Yuchuan Shen
- ycshen2@illinois.edu
- Views
- 139
- Originating Calendar
- CEAPS Events Calendar
Bring your children to East Asian Story Time, and enjoy a Kamishibai. 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.
July story: The Three Magic Charms
Synopsis: A young apprentice from a hilltop temple uses three paper charms to outwit a wicked Yamanba or mountain lady. Curiosity, adventure and helping others are the underlying themes.
Activity: Ask the children about times they’ve helped others OR have children draw their own Mountain Lady.
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.