Thursday, December 30, 2010
Li, Li, Li! 2010 Accomplishments & 2011 Goals
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CHECK BACK SOON FOR
OUR UPDATED LIST OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS
INCLUDING OUR WORK IN 2012
CHECK BACK SOON FOR
OUR UPDATED LIST OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS
INCLUDING OUR WORK IN 2012
Some of our sustainable activities and accomplishments in 2010 included:
- Training readers, creating training seminars for staff at transitional centers, and camp council committee members, on how to read out loud to children;
- Creating questions specific to each book to help children develop listening and analytical skills;
- Writing a Li, Li, Li! storybook for children in the U.S. and Haiti;
- Creating a child-directed cholera flyer and briefing sessions;
- Partnering with grassroots and other organizations to collaborate and share resources;
- Assisting camp committees in securing necessary resources such as medical care, water, tents, etc.;
- Educating and sensitizing the public via press releases and media on the plight of children living in the camps;
- Creating a series of feedback forms and reports used for analysis & evaluation of our program;
- Partnering with elementary schools throughout the United States where students have donated books, art, and poems;
- Making presentations to children and schools in the United States about Li, Li, Li! and Haiti.
Goals for 2011 include:
- Creating a Creole language manual teaching Reading Out Loud to Children skills with a suggested list of appropriate books;
- Continuing to work on our Li, Li, Li! children’s book and publish it for wide distribution;
- Greater incorporation of the Creole alphabet in the Li, Li, Li! reading session and the introduction of activity sheets that teach literacy and development of cognitive skills;
- Employing a part-time health layperson to work on strengthening our cholera education and resource component;
- Developing better and more efficient access to cholera related resources for camps;
- Continuing to participate and monitor centers where we have trained their staff to read out loud to monitor and strengthen success and continuity;
- Expanding our puppet making and creation of art to accompany books;
- Incorporating more art, writing, and music activities that are literature or literacy centered;
- Continuing to partner with schools in the United States and bring information about Haiti and Li, Li, Li! to students and their families.
Friday, December 10, 2010
Li, Li, Li! visits Public School 143 in Brooklyn, New York
For more information and photos see http://www.lililiread.org/p/links.html
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| @ 2010 Connie Walsh Caitlin Karshan reads Li, Li, Li! story book to children at PS 154, Brooklyn |
Monday, November 1, 2010
Eight Days, A Story of Haiti by Edwidge Danticat (Li, Li, Li! Advisory Board member)
New book by Li, Li, Li! Advisory Board member, Edwidge Danticat
Eight Days
A Story of Haiti
by Edwidge Danticat
Pictures by Alix Delinois
While Junior is trapped for 8 days beneath his collapsed house after an earthquake, he uses his imagination for comfort. Drawing on beautiful, everyday-life memories, Junior paints a sparkling picture of Haiti for each of those days - flying kites with his best friend or racing his sister around St. Marc's Square?helping him through the tragedy until he is finally rescued.
Love and hope dance across each page - granting us a way to talk about resilience as a family, a classroom, or a friend.
Mali Under the Night Sky by Youme Landowne (Li, Li, Li! Advisory Board member)
New book by Li, Li, Li! Advisory Board member, Youme Landowne
MALI UNDER THE NIGHT SKY
A Lao Story of Home
Youme tells the true story of artist Mali Jai Dee, whose family was forced by civil war to flee Laos when she was five. Mali’s story reveals the strength of family and culture to carry a child through unthinkable hardship.
Mali Under the Night Sky is the true story of Laotian-American artist Malichansouk Kouanchao, whose family was forced by civil war to flee Laos when she was five. Before the war began, Mali lived an idyllic life in a community where she felt safe and was much loved. She loved to sit in front of her house and ask everyone who passed by, “Where are you going?” She herself went everywhere too—climbing on the flowering trees, catching tiny fish in a rice field, looking for pale bamboo shoots in the dark forest. She loved the time she spent with her family, napping in the hot afternoons, making feasts and coming together on special days to celebrate. But the coming war caused her family to flee to another country and a life that was less than ideal. What did she carry with her? She carried her memories. And they in turn carried her across the world, sharing where she is from and all that she loves with the people she meets.
Youme Landowne is an energetic and joyful painter, book artist and activist who thrives in the context of public art. Youme has lived in and learned from the U.S., Kenya, Japan, Laos, Haiti and Cuba. In all of these places, she has worked with communities and individuals to make art that honors personal and cultural wisdom, creating community murals, illustrating tiny books, and teaching poetry in the schools.
Mali Under the Night Sky is the true story of Laotian-American artist Malichansouk Kouanchao, whose family was forced by civil war to flee Laos when she was five. Before the war began, Mali lived an idyllic life in a community where she felt safe and was much loved. She loved to sit in front of her house and ask everyone who passed by, “Where are you going?” She herself went everywhere too—climbing on the flowering trees, catching tiny fish in a rice field, looking for pale bamboo shoots in the dark forest. She loved the time she spent with her family, napping in the hot afternoons, making feasts and coming together on special days to celebrate. But the coming war caused her family to flee to another country and a life that was less than ideal. What did she carry with her? She carried her memories. And they in turn carried her across the world, sharing where she is from and all that she loves with the people she meets.
Youme Landowne is an energetic and joyful painter, book artist and activist who thrives in the context of public art. Youme has lived in and learned from the U.S., Kenya, Japan, Laos, Haiti and Cuba. In all of these places, she has worked with communities and individuals to make art that honors personal and cultural wisdom, creating community murals, illustrating tiny books, and teaching poetry in the schools.
Drawn in Brooklyn, Exhibit of Illustrations in Children's Books by artists who live in Brooklyn!
Through January 23, 2011
DRAWN IN BROOKLYN:
Slideshow of illustrations http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/events/drawn/
See the illustrators here http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/events/drawn/drawnartists.jsp
Drawn in Brooklyn Activities, Meet the Illustrators and Art Workshops at http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/events/drawn/events.jsp
Children's Book Fair, Meet the Authors, Book Readings, Nov 13, noon -4pm
CHILDREN'S BOOK FAIR
Saturday, November 13, Noon - 4 p.m.
The Rubin Pavilion, at the Brooklyn Museum
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/calendar/event/3742
Meet your favorite Brooklyn authors and illustrators. Featuring story books, picture books and graphic novels Author readings, a game for children and café service will be offered.
READINGS
1:00 p.m. Randall de Seve, Author of Matilda and the
Orange Balloon
2:00 p.m. R. Gregory Christie, Illustrator of Black Magic
3:00 p.m. Artie Bennett, Author of The Butt Book
Participating Authors and Illustrators:
Artie Bennett,Cathleen Bell,Sophie Blackall,Peter Brown,Lauren Castillo,R.Gregory Christie,Nina Crews,Randall de Seve,Zetta Elliott,Buket Erdogan,Emily Goodman,Melanie Greenberg,Lisa Greenwald,Jenny Han,Mike Herrod,Isabel Hill,Paul Hoppe,John & Wendy,Nancy Krulik,Diane Landolf,Alison Lowenstein,Laura Ljungkvist,Meghan McCarthy,Leslie Margolis,Diane Muldrow,Roxie Munro,Johan Olander,Claudia Pearson,Sean Qualls,Sergio Ruzzier,David Stein,Scott Teplin,Lauren Thompson,Robin Wasserman,Jacqueline Woodson,Dwight Zimmerman
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