Youth & Family Programs

Youth and family programming includes programs in the schools for youth and families, for special groups of young adults and for parents and teachers who work with youth and families.

These programs are in the community:

Tuesday, March 19, 7 p.m.

Poetry and Prose

Selected Readings by Middle School and High School Writers. Reception to follow.

Omni Hotel

Wednesday, March 20

6 p.m.

"Jackie Robinson Story Puppets" With Dee Keith

Create your own Paper bag art with Ray-Mond White (hosted by Piedmont Council of the Arts and the Very Special Arts). Free and open to the public

South First Street Recreation Center

7 p.m.

Youth & Family Night

  • Phil Hoose, author of We Were There, Too: Young People in U.S. History


  • Pamela Duncan Edwards, author of Boston Tea Party, Wacky Wedding and Dinorella: A Pre-Historic Fairy Tale; with illustrator Henry Cole.

Culbreth Theatre

Thursday, March 21

9 a.m.

Reading

hosted by Saints March for Books

Head Start Jordan Center

1 p.m.

"Jackie Robinson Story Puppets" with Dee Keith

(hosted by Piedmont Council of the Arts and Charlottesville/Abemarle Very Special Arts)

Worksource Enterprises

Friday, March 22

1 p.m.

"Jackie Robinson Story Puppets" with Dee Keith

(hosted by Piedmont Council of the Arts and the Charlottesville/Albemarle Very Special Arts)

ARC of the Piedmont

4 p.m.

Blood and Turnips: The Irish Famine and Children's Literature.

A panel exploring the history of children’s books about the Great Famine with Karen McNamara, Joan Gulotta and Jacquelyn Vawter. Moderated by Mary Lyons.

Village School

Saturday, March 23

9:45 a.m. - 2 p.m.

StoryFest

Jefferson-Madison Regional Library


11 a.m. – 2 p.m.

McGuffey Art Center will host a variety of hands-on illustrating and bookmaking activities with Frank Riccio, Bob Anderson, Debra Fabrizzi, Josef Beery, Robin Braun and Marion Reynolds

McGuffey Art Center


11 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Oakley’s Gently Used Books: Seventh Annual Kids’ Books Swap.

Have the kids read everything in the house? Trade some of those old titles for some new ones. Hundreds to choose from!

Oakley’s Gently Used Books,
on the Downtown Mall, at York Place

Sunday, March 24

Noon - 2 p.m.

Tell Us A Tale

Peter Jones, host of Tell Us a Tale and the third, fourth and fifth grade students from Free Union Country School as they read some of the classic beginning readers' Book from everyone's childhood.

Contact: Peter Jones at WTJU, 978-3603

WTJU 91.1 FM radio station - on the air!

 

 

 



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