Join us for a family-friendly evening exploring the songs and folktales of West Africa, led by Emmy Award-winning storyteller Bobby Norfolk and drummer Kenya Ajanaku. Discover Nigerian culture through this exciting program of storytelling, unique musical instruments, traditional clothing, and audience participation.
Pick up your copy of The African Trilogy by Chinua Achebe and meet your fellow readers! Then stick around for a keynote presentation from Dr. Joya Uraizee at 7 p.m.
Dr. Uraizee is Professor of English at Saint Louis University, where she teaches African and postcolonial literature and film. She is the author of three books: This is No Place for a Woman: Nadine Gordimer, Nayantara Sahgal, Buchi Emecheta and the Politics of Gender (2000), In the Jaws of the Leviathan: Genocide Fiction and Film (2010) and Writing That Breaks Stones: African Child Soldier Narratives (2020). She is currently working on a manuscript on African child refugee narratives. She has also published several articles on same sex desire in east African cinema, memory in African cinema, migrant African children, and religious fanaticism in Bollywood movies.
Dr. Uraizee is currently president of the African Literature Association, an international organization that promotes African literature, writers, and artists to a world-wide audience.
Each summer, the Science Center’s Youth Exploring Science (YES) Program’s Teens bring fun and accessible STEM learning experiences all over the St. Louis area hoping to inspire a curiosity for science and technology. This year, University City Public Library welcomes the YES Teens to the youth service department and encourages you to get hands-on with science!
Each summer, the Science Center’s Youth Exploring Science (YES) Program’s Teens bring fun and accessible STEM learning experiences all over the St. Louis area hoping to inspire a curiosity for science and technology. This year, University City Public Library welcomes the YES Teens to the youth service department and encourages you to get hands-on with science!
Cyanotype photography is a camera-less technique that involves specially coated paper that is then exposed to light. Learn how to create these vividly white and blue images with photographer Dave Moore! All supplies will be provided.
Intended for ages 12 to 17. To sign up your teen, call Youth Services at 314-727-3150 or email youthservices@ucitylibrary.org.
Advanced registration is required. Spots are limited.
Support for this camp was provided by the Friends of the Library.
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